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Gal Beckerman

@galbeckerman
Staff writer at @TheAtlantic, formerly @nytimesbooks, and author of "How to Be a Dissident."
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    Feb 19
    I’ve spent the past year on a search. How do we push back against the forces that feel like they are crushing us right now? How do we resist the dehumanization of our politics, our technology? The answers came from people who pushed back before us: the dissidents...🧵
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    Aug 24
    For the Bicentennial Babies out there...
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    What a Bicentennial Baby Knows
    From theatlantic.com
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    Jul 17
    I wrote about the Odyssey, and why the absence of gods in the film actually helped capture something essential about the poem.
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    The Odyssey Was Never About the Gods
    From theatlantic.com
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    Gal Beckerman
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    Jun 15
    I watched the UFC fights last night and I can promise you this is the only piece that brought Roland Barthes into the Octagon.
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    The Theory That Explains Trump’s UFC Fight
    From theatlantic.com
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    Gal Beckerman
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    Jun 8
    I laid out in @TheAtlantic a few different ways to love America when you're not on board with Pete Hegseth's idea of patriotism.
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    The Two Kinds of American Patriotism
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