The Atlantic magazine cuts ties with writer Yascha Mounk, accused of raping another journalist

The Atlantic magazine said it has cut ties with one of its prominent contributors after he was accused of raping another journalist nearly three years ago.

Celeste Marcus, a managing editor at the culture and politics journal Liberties, took to her X social media page and alleged that Yascha Mounk, the 41-year-old German-born political scientist and author, raped her in her apartment in June 2021.

When reached by The Post, Mounk said: “I am aware of the horrendous allegation against me. It is categorically untrue.”

Marcus on Sunday posted a screenshot on X of a Jan. 8 email she sent to Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg and the magazine’s executive editor Adrienne La France.

“I’ve just published in Liberties, where I serve as managing editor, an essay about rape which includes a memoir of my own rape,” Marcus wrote in the email.

“It has been two and a half years since the rape, and I believe it is past time for you to know that the rapist was Yascha Mounk.”