Rich Benjamin

Essays

Published in

The New Yorker
The New York Times
The New York Review of Books
The Boston Globe
Slate

July 4, 2026

“America at 250: An Unexpected History”

The Boston Globe

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2022

“David Byrne Does Broadway on the Fly”

The New Yorker

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2021

“This Current Moment: Looking at the Long View of Progress”

The New York Times

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2020

“Whitopia Meets the New American Majority: What Happens When a Red Georgia Turns Blue?”

Slate

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2020

“Who Counts in a Census Taken During a Pandemic?”

The New York Review of Books

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2020

“Three-Step Crisis Management for the High-End Karen”

The New Yorker

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2019

“My Literary and Personal Encounters with Toni Morrison: A Tribute”

Literary Hub

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2018

“Gun Control and the Politics of White Paranoia”

The New Yorker

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2017

“The Bush-Trump Continuum”

The Washington Post

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2017

“Get Out and the Death of White Racial Innocence”

The New Yorker

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2017

“The Ego in the Spectacle”

The New York Times

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