Talia Lavin (born 1989) is an American journalist. She is the author of
''Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy'', published in 2020, and the forthcoming October 2024 book
''Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America''.
Life
Lavin grew up in
Teaneck, New Jersey and was raised
Modern Orthodox
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She attended
SAR High School
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and graduated from
Harvard University in 2012 with a degree in comparative literature. She was a
Fulbright scholar
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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 (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
Spartan Creed. Lavin had deleted the original tweet before the agency's statement. In 2018, she was hired as researcher on far-right extremism by
Media Matters for America. Within "several months", she was no longer with Media Matters for America, and was hired at
New York University where she was scheduled to teach an undergraduate course in the Fall semester called "Reporting on the Far Right". The course was canceled by May 30, 2019 when only two people signed up for the course. ''
The Wrap'' reported her faculty bio had been deleted "around April 20, 2019".
Until January 2019 Lavin wrote a weekly political column in ''
HuffPost'', and she also worked as a columnist for
MSNBC Daily. Her work appeared in ''
GQ, Jewcy,'' ''
HuffPost,'' ''
Rolling Stone,
The New Republic, The New Yorker'', ''
New York
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* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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Film and television
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'' magazine'','' ''
The Nation,'' and
''The'' ''Washington Post''.
Bibliography
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Essays and reporting
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Critical studies and reviews of Lavin's work
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References
External links
* Kelly Hayes
Fascism Has Gone Mainstream truthout, September 9, 2022
21st-century American women journalists
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The New Yorker people
Harvard University alumni
Living people
1989 births
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
Writers from Teaneck, New Jersey
Journalists from New Jersey
21st-century American Jews
Fulbright alumni
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