Megan Garber
Culture critic arguing that entertainment has become the dominant American ideology.
Megan Garber is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she writes about the intersection of politics and entertainment for the website and the print magazine. The recipient of a Mirror Award for her writing about the media, she previously worked as a technology reporter for Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab and as a critic for the Columbia Journalism Review. Garber is the co-host of the podcast How to Know What’s Real and the author of the essay collection On Misdirection, which examines the rise of misinformation in American political culture and the fractures that come when people stop believing common facts—and stop believing in the idea that common facts even exist.
As an Emerson Collective Fellow at New America, Garber is working on a book examining how entertainment, as both escapism and ideology, is reshaping American culture, politics, and everyday life. Raised in central California, she has also lived in New Jersey, Massachusetts, China, Vietnam, and New York City. She now lives in Washington, DC.