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 ''Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America'', published in 2024.

Life

Lavin grew up in

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and was raised

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. She attended SAR High School and graduated from

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in 2012 with a degree in comparative literature. She was a

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and spent a year in Ukraine from 2012 to 2013.

Career

Lavin worked as a fact-checker at ''

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''. In 2018, she was hired as researcher on far-right extremism by

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. Until January 2019 Lavin wrote a weekly political column in ''

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'', and she also worked as a columnist for MSNBC Daily. Her work appeared in the ''Washington Post'' as well.

Bibliography

Books

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Essays and reporting

* Online version is titled "''The Binc, unfocussed in time''".

Critical studies and reviews of Lavin's work

;''Culture warlords'' * * * * * * *

References

External links

* Kelly Hayes
Fascism Has Gone Mainstream
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