Nathan Gardels
Editor-in-Chief

Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. His previous roles include editor-in-chief of The WorldPost and editor-in-chief of New Perspectives Quarterly. He has also served as editor of Global Viewpoint and Nobel Laureates Plus, both services of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media.


Gardels has written widely for The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper’s Magazine, U.S. News & World Report and The New York Review of Books. He has also written for foreign publications, including Corriere della Sera, El Pais, Le Figaro, The Straits Times (Singapore), Yomiuri Shimbun, O’Estado de Sao Paulo, The Guardian, Die Welt and many others. His books include “At Century’s End: Great Minds Reflect on Our Times” and “The Changing Global Order.” He is co-author with Hollywood producer Mike Medvoy of “American Idol After Iraq: Competing for Hearts and Minds in the Global Media Age.”


Gardels is co-author with Nicolas Berggruen of “Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism” and “Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century,” a Financial Times Book of the Year. Gardels holds degrees in Theory and Comparative Politics and in Architecture and Urban Planning from UCLA. 


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October 1, 2021
Where technology and its consequences go, the religious imagination follows.
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September 24, 2021
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September 17, 2021
The “struggle for recognition” drives both anti-elite populism and identity politics.
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September 10, 2021
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September 3, 2021
An array of new actors beyond formal international relations are emerging to cope with pandemics, climate change and geopolitical pandemonium.
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August 31, 2021
Former California Gov. Jerry Brown ponders if the “pluribus” can still join as “unum.”
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August 27, 2021
China’s “socialist market economy” won’t mimic Western-style capitalism just as democracy has not followed from prosperity.
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August 17, 2021
Biden is right to stick to his lack of guns in Afghanistan and think strategically about protecting the liberal order where it still exists.
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August 13, 2021
Ivan Illich’s radical critique of our modern certitudes resonates loudly amid today’s crises.
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August 3, 2021
Former Governor Jerry Brown on the lethal mix of nationalism and nukes.
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July 30, 2021
It’s a race against the point of no return for the biosphere.
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July 23, 2021
Democratize the “social media states” of Big Tech to take back control of the public sphere. But more democracy must be tempered by impartial meritocracy.
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July 16, 2021
Planetary realism challenges the old geopolitics of competing nation-states acting in their narrow self-interest.
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July 9, 2021
Most of what makes democracy work is what citizens do before, between and after elections.
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July 2, 2021
From filling in the cracks to fixing the system.