Alana Newhouse

Alana Newhouse grew up in Lawrence, NY, and went to Barnard College, later graduating from the Columbia University School of Journalism. She worked as culture editor at the English-language Forward from 2002 to 2008, when she was hired as an editor by Nextbook. She founded Tablet Magazine in 2009 and became its editor in chief. She is known for her analysis of a phenomenon that she calls “brokenism,” the belief that American society is fundamentally flawed, and radical steps need to be taken to transform it, a position that, as she sees it, animates much of contemporary politics. Her son was diagnosed with Angelman Syndrome, a genetic disease, about which she has written, and she is currently the president of the Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics.