Talia Lavin Explained

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 the forthcoming October 2024 book Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America. ^[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 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

Books

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Essays and reporting

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Critical studies and reviews of Lavin's work

Culture warlords

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

External links

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

Notes and References

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