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Rich Benjamin
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New York City, United States
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| Education | Wesleyan University (BA) Stanford University (PhD) |
| Occupation | Author, television commentator, cultural critic |
Rich Benjamin is an American cultural critic, anthropologist, and author. Benjamin is perhaps best known for the non-fiction book Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America. He is also a lecturer and a public intellectual, who has discussed issues on NPR, PBS, CNN and MSNBC. His writing appears in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times/
Career
Benjamin's work focuses on US politics and culture, comparative world politics, money, class, Blacks, Whites, Latinos, public policy, global cultural transformation, and demographic change.
Benjamin has been contributing essays to The New Yorker since 2017.
He has presented a talk at a conference on decentralization.
Benjamin's book was the subject of a TED Talk that has been viewed more than 2.8 million times. The book has received coverage on NPR and MSNBC.
In 2021 Benjamin delivered the Poynter Lecture at Yale Law School on "conservatism and Trumpism in the era of digital media—on how right-wing ideology, white fear, and the digital media ecosystem threaten democracy in America."
In 2021, he served as a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Education
As a doctoral student at Stanford University, Benjamin studied with Professors Tim Lenoir and Terry Winograd, an adviser to the founders of Google.
