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Andrew Marantz

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Andrew Marantz
Born (1984-09-26) September 26, 1984 (age 40)
Education

Andrew Marantz (born September 26, 1984) is an American author and journalist who writes for The New Yorker.[1][2][3]

Life

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From 2002 to 2006 Marantz was an undergraduate at Brown University, receiving a bachelor's degree in religion and religious studies. He is Jewish.[4] From 2009 to 2011 he was a graduate student at New York University, receiving a master's degree in journalism.

He is a staff writer for The New Yorker, contributing to the magazine since 2011.[5]

In 2019 he published his book, Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians and the Hijacking of the American Conversation,[3][6] The edition of the book published by London's Picador is entitled Antisocial: How Extremists Broke America.[7] In 2020, Project Syndicate chose it as one of the best reads of 2020, finding it "one of the best recent accounts of how social media has come to dominate political discourse in the United States."[8]

Personal life

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In October 2013 Marantz married the lawyer Sarah Lustbader. They have a son, Gideon Caleb Marantz, born 2017.[9]

Andrew Marantz's father is the physician Paul R. Marantz.[10][11]

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Antisocial : online extremists, techno-utopians and the hijacking of the American conversation. 2019.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Conroy, J. Oliver (2019-10-13). "Antisocial review: Andrew Marantz wades into the alt-right morass". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  2. ^ "Andrew Marantz | Speaker". TED. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  3. ^ a b "Berkeley Talks: Author Andrew Marantz on the hijacking of the American conversation". Berkeley News. November 1, 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  4. ^ Andrew Marantz (September 21, 2006). "Five thousand, seven hundred sixty-seven years of inbreeding: Judaism is an ethno-racial identity, not a political agenda@". Brown Daily Herald.
  5. ^ "Andrew Marantz". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  6. ^ Schwab, Katharine (2019-10-08). "This journalist spent 3 years with alt-right trolls. This is what he learned". Fast Company. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  7. ^ Naughton, John (17 February 2020). "Review of Antisocial: How Extremists Broke America by Andrew Marantz". The Guardian.
  8. ^ "PS Commentators' Best Reads in 2020 by PS editors". Project Syndicate. 2020-12-18. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
  9. ^ "Synagogue Family" (PDF). Park Avenue Synagogue Bulletin. Vol. 70, no. 1. September 2017. p. 8.
  10. ^ "Clare Marantz 1924–2017". NY Times. March 2017.
  11. ^ "Paul R. Marantz, M.D., M.P.H." (PDF). Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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