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Hanna Rosin is an American journalist.

Career

Hanna Rosin is a co-founder of DoubleX, a women's site connected to Slate. She is also a contributing editor at the Atlantic. She has written for the Washington Post, The New Yorker, GQ and New York after beginning her career as a staff writer for The New Republic. Rosin has also appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show and Air America's The Majority Report. A character portrayed by actress Chloë Sevigny in the movie Shattered Glass about Rosin's colleague at The New Republic, Stephen Glass, was loosely based on Rosin.[1][2]

Rosin has specialized in writing about religious-political issues, in particular the influence of evangelical Christians on the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign.[3] She is the author of God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America (ISBN 978-0-15-101262-6), published in September 2007. Based on a New Yorker story, the book follows several young Christians at Patrick Henry College, a new evangelical institution that teaches its students to "shape the culture and take back the nation." Rosin's portrayals of the students are part of a larger attempt to chronicle the cultural and political history of the modern Christian right.[4]

In 2009, she published a controversial article in The Atlantic with the provocative title "The Case Against Breast-Feeding," questioning whether current social pressures in favor of breastfeeding were appropriate, and whether the science in support of the practice was conclusive.[5]

Personal life

Rosin graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1987, where she won a number of competitions on the debate team.[6] She is married to journalist David Plotz; they live in Washington, D.C. with their three children.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ "Hanna Rosin, Washington Post staff writer, to discuss "religious right" on the campaign trail". Princeton University. Retrieved 2007-09-12. Chloë Sevigny later portrayed her in "Shattered Glass" the movie about her New Republic colleague, Stephen Glass.
  2. ^ Howard Kurtz (2002-10-07). "Stephen Glass: The True Story". Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-09-12. A female New Republic staffer played by Chloë Sevigny, though based loosely on Hanna Rosin (now also at The Post), is a composite. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ Julia Osellame (2005-11-05). "Right wing on rise, says writer". Daily Princetonian. Retrieved 2007-09-12. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ Nina Easton (2007-09-09). "Political Fundamentals". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-09-12. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ Hanna Rosin (2009 April). "The Case Against Breast-Feeding". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2009-09-18. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ "Stuyvesant Policy Debate Alumni". Retrieved 2009-09-12.
  7. ^ "About David Plotz". The Genius Factory.net. Retrieved 2007-09-12.

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