Talia Lavin

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

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

Lavin worked as a fact-checker at The New Yorker.^[9] In 2018, she was hired as researcher on far-right extremism by Media Matters for America.^[10]

Until January 2019 Lavin wrote a weekly political column in HuffPost,^[11] and she also worked as a columnist for MSNBC Daily.^[12] Her work appeared in the Washington Post as well.^[13]

Bibliography

Books

• 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

• "[Untitled review of The Binc bar]". Goings on About Town. Bar Tab. The New Yorker. 93 (10): 33. April 24, 2017.^[14]

Critical studies and reviews of Lavin's work

Culture warlords

• Szalai, Jennifer (2020-10-14). "An Undercover Trip Into the Rageful Worlds of Incels and White Supremacists". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
• Kellogg, Carolyn (2020-10-27). "An Expedition Deep Into an Underworld of Online Hate". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
• "'My goal was to destroy him' – Jewish journalist Talia Lavin on infiltrating white supremacist groups online". independent. 4 July 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
• "White Supremacy And Its Online Reach : It's Been a Minute". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
• "Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy | Jewish Book Council". www.jewishbookcouncil.org. 2020. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
• Venkataramakrishnan, Siddarth (8 February 2021). "'Culture Warlords' — undercover among neo-Nazis". Financial Times. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
• Tuttle, Kate (October 22, 2020). "A writer infiltrates the world of white nationalism in 'Culture Warlords' - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 1 September 2022.

References

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. Archived from the original on 2022-09-01. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
4. Lerea, Dov (2015-08-21). "An Orthodox tent for Talia Lavin's inner self". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 2022-10-24. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
5. Yudelson, Larry (2021-05-12). "Teaneck's sword-wielding Nazi fighter". Jewish Standard. Archived from the original on 2022-09-05. 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. Archived from the original on 2022-09-05. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
7. "Talia Lavin". Tablet Magazine. Archived from the original on 2022-05-18. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
8. Birkner, Gabrielle (2018-12-15). "JTA Twitter 50: Talia Lavin". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Archived from the original on 2022-09-05. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
9. Brady, Amy (2020-11-03). "Talia Lavin: Into the Abyss". Guernica. Archived from the original on 2022-06-13. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
10. Levine, Jon (2018-07-20). "Media Matters Hires Ex-New Yorker Fact Checker Who Falsely Said ICE Agent Had Nazi Tattoo". The Wrap. Archived from the original on 2022-09-12. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
11. Collins, Ben (2019-01-25). "4chan trolls inundate laid off HuffPost and BuzzFeed reporters with death threats". NBC News. Archived from the original on 2023-01-27. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
12. Gomez, Albert (2022-02-07). "Una periodista judía se infiltra en las redes de supremacía blanca". The Objective (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2022-09-14. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
13. Penelo, Lídia (June 25, 2022). "Talia Lavin: "La historia oscura de la sangre y del odio está en todas partes"". Publico. Archived from the original on 2022-09-01. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
14. Online version is titled "The Binc, unfocussed in time".

External links

• Kelly Hayes, Fascism Has Gone Mainstream, truthout, September 9, 2022