Black and white portrait of a man with short curly hair and a beard, wearing a dark jacket over a shirt, looking seriously at the camera against a plain background.

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Thomas Chatterton Williams is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is also a visiting professor of humanities at Bard College, a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, and a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse and Self-Portrait in Black and White. Williams’s work has appeared in The New York Times MagazineHarper’sThe New YorkerThe London Review of BooksLe Monde, and many other places, and has been collected in The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing.