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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,[1] and Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America, published in 2024. [2]

Life

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Lavin grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and was raised Modern Orthodox.[3] [4] She attended SAR High School[5] and graduated from Harvard University in 2012 with a degree in comparative literature.[6] She was a Fulbright scholar[7] and spent a year in Ukraine from 2012 to 2013.[8]

Career

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Lavin was a fact-checker at The New Yorker.[9] 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.[10] ICE released a statement via Twitter that the officer's tattoo is a Titan 2 platoon symbol, accompanied by the Spartan Creed.[11] Lavin had deleted the original tweet before the agency's statement.[12] In 2018, she was hired as researcher on far-right extremism by Media Matters for America.[13] 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".[14] 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".[15]

Until January 2019 Lavin wrote a weekly political column in HuffPost,[16] and she also worked as a columnist for MSNBC Daily.[17] Her work appeared in GQ,[18] Jewcy,[19] HuffPost,[20] Rolling Stone,[21] The New Republic,[22] The New Yorker,[23] New York magazine,[24] The Nation,[25] and The Washington Post.[26]

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. Hachette Books. 2020. ISBN 9780306846434
  • Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America. Legacy Lit. 2024. ISBN 9780306829192

Essays and reporting

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Critical studies and reviews of Lavin's work

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Culture warlords

References

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  1. ^ "CULTURE WARLORDS". Kirkus Reviews. 2020-07-28.
  2. ^ "Wild Faith". Hachette Book Group. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
  3. ^ Elkind, Elizabeth (2020-10-19). "A Jewish writer spent over a year undercover on white supremacist message boards. Here's what she found". CBS News. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  4. ^ Lerea, Dov (2015-08-21). "An Orthodox tent for Talia Lavin's inner self". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  5. ^ Yudelson, Larry (2021-05-12). "Teaneck's sword-wielding Nazi fighter". Jewish Standard. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  6. ^ Grove, Lloyd (2019-03-24). "Fox News Called Talia Lavin and Lauren Duca 'Little Journo Terrorists.' Now They're Facing Death Threats". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  7. ^ "Talia Lavin". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  8. ^ Birkner, Gabrielle (2018-12-15). "JTA Twitter 50: Talia Lavin". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  9. ^ Brady, Amy (2020-11-03). "Talia Lavin: Into the Abyss". Guernica. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  10. ^ Paiella, Gabriella (2018-06-25). "New Yorker Fact-Checker Speaks After Resignation Over ICE Tweet". The Cut. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
  11. ^ "ICE statement regarding erroneous attacks on ICE employee". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
  12. ^ Brady, Amy (2020-11-03). "Talia Lavin: Into the Abyss". Guernica. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
  13. ^ Levine, Jon (2018-07-20). "Media Matters Hires Ex-New Yorker Fact Checker Who Falsely Said ICE Agent Had Nazi Tattoo". The Wrap. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
  14. ^ Levine, Jon (March 20, 2019). "NYU Journalism School Hires Ex-New Yorker Fact Checker Who Falsely Said ICE Agent Had Nazi Tattoo". TheWrap. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
  15. ^ Levine, Jon (May 30, 2019). "NYU Cancels Former New Yorker Fact-Checker Talia Lavin's Journalism Class". TheWrap. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
  16. ^ Collins, Ben (2019-01-25). "4chan trolls inundate laid off HuffPost and BuzzFeed reporters with death threats". NBC News. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  17. ^ Gomez, Albert (2022-02-07). "Una periodista judía se infiltra en las redes de supremacía blanca". The Objective (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  18. ^ "Talia Lavin". GQ. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  19. ^ "Talia Lavin, Author at Jewcy". Jewcy. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  20. ^ "Talia Lavin | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  21. ^ "Talia Lavin". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  22. ^ "Talia Lavin". The New Republic. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  23. ^ "Talia Lavin". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  24. ^ "Talia Lavin Author Archive". New York magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  25. ^ "Talia Lavin". The Nation. 2019-02-13. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  26. ^ Penelo, Lídia (June 25, 2022). "Talia Lavin: "La historia oscura de la sangre y del odio está en todas partes"". Publico. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
  27. ^ Online version is titled "The Binc, unfocussed in time".
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