About Jonathan Alter
I’m Jonathan Alter and like many of you, I’m often at my happiest when experiencing what the writer Diana Trilling called “a life of significant contention. ”
That doesn’t necessarily mean arguing, just conversing about what’s important and compelling instead of trivial and boring.
I launched OLD GOATS in 2021 as a platform for my own arguments and to host fun yet meaningful conversations among people who’ve been around for a while.
But it soon became clear that Donald Trump was poised for a political comeback. So Old Goats evolved and I covered every day of the January 6 Committee hearings in 2022, every day (in person in New York) of the 2024 Trump felony trial, and have written dozens of columns here holding Trump to account, with many more to come.
As you will see, I like to use the past to help me think more clearly about the present and the future.