Capital J Mainstage: Dara Horn with Jeffrey Goldberg

Dara Horn is the award-winning author of seven books, including the novels In the Image, The World to Come, All Other Nights, A Guide for the Perplexed, and Eternal Life; the Passover-themed graphic novel One Little Goat; and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present. Her eighth book, The Final Solution to the Jewish Question will be released on September 1, 2026.

She is the recipient of three National Jewish Book Awards, among other honors, and she was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the Wingate Prize, the Simpson Family Literary Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Horn received her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University, studying Yiddish and Hebrew. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University, and held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard.

Horn is also the founder and president of a new non-profit, The Tell Institute, devoted to educating the broader American public about Jewish civilization, including in K-12 schools and other channels. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.

Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic and is the moderator of Washington Week With The Atlantic on PBS. He joined The Atlantic in 2007 as a national correspondent and in 2016 was named the magazine’s 15th editor-in-chief. During his editorship, The Atlantic has set new audience and subscription records and won its first-ever Pulitzer Prizes. In 2022, 2023, and 2024, The Atlantic received the National Magazine Award for General Excellence from the American Society of Magazine Editors, the top award in the industry.

Before joining The Atlantic, Goldberg served as the Middle East correspondent and then the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. Earlier in his career, he was a writer for The New York Times Magazine. He began his career as a police reporter for The Washington Post. Goldberg is the author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror and On Heroism: McCain, Milley, Mattis, and the Cowardice of Donald Trump.

A former fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, he also served as a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and as the distinguished visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Goldberg is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for Reporting; the Daniel Pearl Award for Reporting; the Overseas Press Club’s award for human-rights reporting; the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Prize for best investigative reporting.