Cullen Murphy

Cullen Murphy is the editor at large of The Atlantic. Previously, from 1985 to 2006, he served as The Atlantic's managing editor. Starting in 2007, for more than a decade, he was the editor at large of Vanity Fair. Murphy was a co-editor of The American Crisis: What Went Wrong, How We Recover (Simon & Schuster, 2020), a collection of articles by Atlantic writers. His books include Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017); God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World (Houghton Mifflin, 2012), and Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).