Alex Beam

Alex Beam (born 1954) is a writer and journalist, currently a columnist for the Boston Globe.

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Globe columnist Alex Beam

Beam grew up in Washington, D.C., as his father, Jacob D. Beam (1908-1993) was a diplomat.

Beam worked at Newsweek and BusinessWeek, where his tenure included Boston and Moscow bureau chief, before joining the Boston Globe. His twice-weekly column for the Globe has appeared since 1987. He was a John Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1996-1997.

In addition to his journalistic work, Beam is the author of two novels set in Russia, Fellow Travelers (1987) and The Americans Are Coming! (1991), both published by St. Martin's Press. He has also published a work of non-fiction, exploring the history of McLean Hospital. The book, titled Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital, was published in January 2002.

Beam's son, Chris, is a reporter for the online magazine Slate and webmaster of IvyGate.

Beam has been a writer of many anti-Canadian articles. His views on Canada are very well documented, he firmly beleives Canada is a semi-communist or socialist state. He has written of his views on Canada in the Boston Globe and the Houston Herald. This has attracted the scorn of Canadians who follow his articles closely and ensure that his editors are notified of any anti-Canadian writings with a barrage of complaints.

External links

• Interview with Alex Beam
• Information on Jacob Beam
• Anti-Canadian Articles by Alex Beam]