ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK

I’m a freelance journalist living in Brooklyn. I spent most of 2009 and 2010 on the road in America, researching and writing my book, Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance (Wiley & Sons, 2010). In 2008 I worked out of Mexico City. In 2007 I was based in Moscow, where I wrote for the eXile. In 2006 I was an investigative reporting fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Montgomery, Alabama, and Washington, D.C. I spent 2005 traveling in and writing about South Asia. Between 2003 and 2005 I was on staff at New York Press, where I wrote about city, state, and national politics. Between 1998 and 2003 I lived in Prague, 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 profiled by the New York Times here. Between 1992 and 1998 I earned degrees in History. A sampling of my work can be found in this site’s archive.

I was born and raised in Boston.