Eric Alterman is a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College and served as The Nation‘s “Liberal Media” columnist from 1995-2020. A regular contributor to The New Republic and a contributing writer to both the Nation and The American Prospect, Alterman has written for The Forward, Moment, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Atlantic. He is the author of twelve books, including the national bestseller What Liberal Media? and We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel (2022), which was named one of The New Yorker‘s best books of the year. A winner of the George Orwell Prize and the Mirror Award for media criticism, he holds a PhD in US history from Stanford, an M.A. in international relations from Yale, and a B.A. from Cornell.