--- title: Richard Beck | TIME description: Beck is the author of the new book Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life. He is a writer for n+1 and lives in New York City canonical: https://time.com/author/richard-beck/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/richard-beck/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Richard Beck ## Richard Beck Beck is the author of the new book [_Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life_](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/677393/homeland-by-richard-beck/)_._ He is a writer for _n+1_ and lives in New York City ## Richard Beck *  Sep 6, 2024 ### [The Demonization of Student Protests](https://time.com/7018734/campus-protests-demonization-war-on-terror-essay/) ‘Today, many of our most prestigious universities are making the same mistakes,’ writes Richard Beck... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/richard-beck/","name":"Richard Beck"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/richard-beck/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/richard-beck/"},"name":"Richard Beck","jobTitle":null,"description":"Beck is the author of the new book Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life. He is a writer for n+1 and lives in New York City","url":"https://time.com/author/richard-beck/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```