Alexander Zaitchik

I am a freelance journalist living in Brooklyn. I spent most of 2009 on the road in America, researching and writing my first book, Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance (Wiley, 2010). In 2008 I worked out of Miami and Mexico City. In 2007 I was based in Moscow, Russia, where I was on staff at the eXile, an English-language newspaper. In 2006 I was an investigative reporting fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Montgomery, Alabama, and Washington, D.C. In 2005 I was based in Delhi, India, focused on South Asia. Between 2003 and 2005 I was on staff at New York Press, a weekly newspaper in Manhattan, where I wrote about city, state, and national politics. Between 1998 and 2003 I lived in Prague, Czech Republic, where I worked for a think tank under the Czech Foreign Ministry, wrote a column on regional politics for The Prague Post, freelanced, and in 2001 founded The Prague Pill, an alternative newspaper that was profiled by the New York Times here. Between 1992 and 1998 I studied history and politics at Trinity College and the University of Chicago. A sampling of my work can be found in this site’s archive.

I was born and raised in Boston.