Gregg Easterbrook

Gregg Easterbrook is the author of twelve books, most recently It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear (2018). He was a staff writer, national correspondent, or contributing editor at The Atlantic for nearly forty years. Easterbrook has written for The New Yorker , Science , Wired , Harvard Business Review , the Washington Monthly , the New Republic , the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , and the Los Angeles Times . He was a fellow in economics and in...See more

Gregg Easterbrook is the author of twelve books, most recently It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear (2018). He was a staff writer, national correspondent, or contributing editor at The Atlantic for nearly forty years. Easterbrook has written for The New Yorker , Science , Wired , Harvard Business Review , the Washington Monthly , the New Republic , the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , and the Los Angeles Times . He was a fellow in economics and in government studies at the Brookings Institution. In 2017 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. See less