Noah began his career as a columnist with a series of high-profile op-ed pieces in the New York Times and Washington Post in the immediate post-9/11 period. He became a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine shortly after, writing regularly on law and religion, ethics and post-war reconstruction, and constitutional law and policy. 

In 2012, Noah joined Bloomberg Opinion as a columnist. He writes about law, tech ethics, and international affairs.

Noah’s long-form essays have appeared in the New York Review of Books, Esquire, and The New Republic, among other periodicals.