Rich Benjamin

Why you should listen

Rich Benjamin offers unique insight into the changing nature of politics and culture in his public talks, media appearances and books. His most recent book, Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History (2025), tells his family's harrowing story as refugees and doubles as a portrait of America. In his 14-year experience writing this book, he plumbs secrets — personal, familial and political. For Benjamin, excavating untold and silenced stories is critical to explaining the past and the present. For his previous book, Whitopia, he embarked on a 26,909-mile, two-year journey, immersing himself into the fastest-growing, whitest communities in America. Now in its second printing, this groundbreaking study is one of the first to have illuminated in advance the rise of white anxiety and white nationalism in current US life. His book asks America to imagine itself in 2042, when whites are no longer the majority. He is often interviewed about his insights in international and national media.