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Culture Warlords
''Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy'' is a non-fiction book by Talia Lavin. In the book, Lavin describes a project of inventing online personae that allow her to meet and expose fascist white supremacists who gather in online chatrooms and websites; the book also traces the historic roots of these contemporary phenomena. Time (magazine), ''Time'' named ''Culture Warlords'' one of the 100 must-read books of 2020. Publication history Lavin, who is Jewish and the grandchild of Holocaust survivors, became motivated to investigate the topic following Unite the Right rally, white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, where "Jews will not replace us!" was a rallying cry. This may be in reference to the white genocide conspiracy theory. In March 2019, Lavin sold ''Culture Warlords'' to editor Paul Whitlatch at Hachette Books. It was published on October 13, 2020. Content Lavin invented online personae, which allowed her to gain entr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talia Lavin
Talia Lavin (born 1989) is an American journalist. She is the author of Culture Warlords, ''Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy'', published in 2020, and the forthcoming October 2024 book Wild Faith, ''Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America''. Life Lavin grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and was raised Modern Orthodox Judaism, Modern Orthodox. She attended SAR High School and graduated from Harvard University in 2012 with a degree in comparative literature. She was a Fulbright Program, Fulbright scholar and spent a year in Ukraine from 2012 to 2013. Career Lavin was a fact-checker at ''The New Yorker''. She resigned from her position in 2018 after mistakenly comparing a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer's tattoo to an Iron Cross. ICE released a statement via Twitter that the officer's tattoo is a Titan 2 platoon symbol, accompanied by the The Spartan Creed, Spartan Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |