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BONUS: How To Be A Dissident

BONUS DISCUSSION:  Dr. Gal Beckerman, author and staff writer at The Atlantic magazine, joins the "ROI" panelists to discuss his book:  How To Be A Dissident. The host for the 669th edition in this series is Jay Swords.  The history buffs are Rick Sweet and Ed Broders. Opinions expressed in this pr…

How To Be A Dissident

Dr. Gal Beckerman, author and staff writer at The Atlantic magazine, joins the "ROI" panelists to discuss his book:  How To Be A Dissident. The host for the 669th edition in this series is Jay Swords.  The history buffs are Rick Sweet and Ed Broders. Opinions expressed in this program are those of …

The Making of a Dissident

How does a dissident become a dissident? The Atlantic staff writer Gal Beckerman joins host Alex Lovit to discuss his new book, How to Be a Dissident. It’s part instruction manual, part history, and part call to action to resist the oppressive forces of our own times. Gal Beckerman is a writer an…

How to be a Dissident

What does it mean to be a dissident? If you join a protest march, are you dissenting… or conforming? How should you push back against leaders who wield fear and intimidation; against digital technology that dehumanises you and flattens us all? Gal Beckerman is a staff writer at The Atlantic who wo…

Episode 259 | How Human is AI?

The rise of artificial intelligence has sparked a repeated concern, captured in two recent Atlantic articles: Is technology making us less human? Hunter and Autumn consider why the Christian doctrine of humans in the image of God offers a richer answer than secular accounts of human dignity, and wh…

An Inconvenient Woman: Keri Leigh Merritt on Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America

“She is absolutely a Cassandra. She is unafraid to tell the stark naked truth, no matter how ugly it is.” — Keri Leigh Merritt   In April, Gal Beckerman came on the show to identify the ten qualities of being a dissident. They included pessimism, humour and recklessness. But he left one out: inconv…

How to Survive Authoritarianism: Dan Storyev on a Russian Phrasebook for America

“The United States is speed running into a more authoritarian model that the Russians have been living in for quite some time now.” — Dan Storyev   How to survive authoritarianism in the United States? Maybe we can learn from the Russians. At least according to the Russian-American Dan Storyev, co-…

Ghosts of the Pale

In the Pale of Settlement, the writer S. An-Sky made an ecstatic, obsessive attempt to wrap his arms around an entire people just as it was disappearing. By Gal Beckerman From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠November 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you ⁠…

A Broken World: Gal Beckerman, Eva Illouz, and Uday Singh Meht

“There’s a lot I love about Arendt,” says Gal Beckerman on this week’s episode of The World in Time. “She says: Why do we need to orient ourselves around this question of death and having a meaningful life? Think about the other thing that is common to human existence, which is birth. We all come i…

Self-Help Needs Help

Even the luminaries of the self-help genre have begun to recognize how little in life we can actually control. By Gal Beckerman From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠December 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. You’ll enjo…