Jeremiah Johnson joins The Argument as a staff writer

The Argument adds a leading voice on internet culture and liberalism to its growing editorial team.

Jul 14, 2026

The Argument is thrilled to announce that Jeremiah Johnson is joining our growing editorial team as a staff writer. If you’ve been reading us, you already know his work. Jeremiah has written some of our most incisive pieces, including, “Sometimes you have to hurt people,” “The age of snark,” and “The most 2020s art ever made.”

The Argument exists to defend and revitalize liberalism through rigorous public debate. We believe the case for a free, open, and prosperous society has to be made anew for this moment and made well: with data, with rigor, and without flinching from controversial arguments.

That’s why Jeremiah fits here.

The internet is real life — the place where our politics and culture are increasingly made — and making sense of it requires a writer who can move fluently between digital and physical realities, between data and argument. Someone who isn’t afraid to stake out an unfashionable position and defend it. Jeremiah is that writer.

At The Argument, he’ll keep dissecting how technology is reshaping our politics and culture, taking on the conventional wisdom of both left and right, and following his analysis to its unflinching conclusions.

Jeremiah’s writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, Politico, New York Daily News, and USA Today, but he has built a devoted audience with his newsletter Infinite Scroll, which he will be bringing to The Argument. Jeremiah founded the Center for New Liberalism and will continue to host the New Liberal Podcast.

The Argument is a media company based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to redefining liberalism for the 21st century through rigorous, public debate. We cover the politics and economics of growth and abundance; technology and society; and gender and family.

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