Addis Goldman is a writer, researcher, editor, and executive producer based in Seattle, WA. He previously served as an associate director for economy at the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), a nonprofit AI policy organization founded by former Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt. He previously worked at the Council on Foreign Relations; BOMB Magazine, the literary arts quarterly archived within the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University; and The Still House Group, the formerly artist-run organization based in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
His executive producer credits include Allen Sunshine (2024), which was awarded the TRT First Cut + Award at the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, premiered at the 41st Munich International Film Festival, and received the 2024 Werner Herzog Film Award; Bust (2024), an official selection for the Shorts Program at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival; and Motherland (2022), an official selection at the Academy Award-qualifying Hollyshorts in 2023.
Goldman holds a BA in political science from Colorado College and an MA in international relations from the University of Chicago.
Select Publications
“Flash Point: David Levi Strauss’s Photography and Belief,” Artforum, November 3, 2020.
“Critics’ Picks, Casa Malaparte: Furniture, Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street, London, UK,” Artforum, July 8, 2020.
“The Task of the Publisher: Lucas Zwirner Interviewed by Addis Goldman,” BOMB Magazine, September 20, 2019.
“An Artist-Driven Video Channel: Passing-Time Reviewed,” BOMB Magazine, October 19, 2020.
“Harley Chamandy by Addis Goldman, November 8, 2024,” BOMB Magazine, November 8, 2024.
“All the World’s a Painting,” Lapham’s Quarterly, October 21, 2021.
“The Socialist Calculation Debate,” Lapham’s Quarterly, May 1, 2023.
“Evaluating the Costs and Consequences of Sanctions,” Chicago Policy Review, April 18, 2022.
“The Neomercantilists: An Interview with Eric Helleiner,” Journal of the History of Ideas, August 21, 2023.
“China and the Transformation of International Law: An Interview with Ryan Martinez Mitchell,” Journal of the History of Ideas, April 5, 2023.
“Why Carl Schmitt Matters to China,” The Hedgehog Review, October 21, 2021.
“Finding Fukuyama’s Ends,” The Hedgehog Review, July 22, 2021.
Select Co-authored Publications
Liza Tobin, Addis Goldman, and Katherine Kurata, “Beyond Fusion: Preparing for Systems Rivalry with China,” War on the Rocks, August 13, 2024.
Liza Tobin and Addis Goldman, “The US Needs a Techno-Industrial Strategy,” Project Syndicate, July 17, 2024.
Addis Goldman and Max Hancock, “The Future of Futures: On Kalshi and Prediction Markets,” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 9, 2023.
Select Acknowledged Contributions
Liza Tobin, “America First vs. China’s Brute Force Economics” in Lessons from the New Cold War: America Confronts the China Challenge, ed. Hal Brands (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025).
John J. Mearsheimer, “War and International Politics,” International Security 49, no. 4 (Spring 2025): 7–54.
Contact
info [at] addisgoldman [dot] com