Tal Lavin

Tal Lavin (formerly Talia Lavin; born 1989) is an American journalist. He 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 Teaneck, New Jersey in a Jewish family and was raised Modern Orthodox. He attended SAR High School and graduated from Harvard University in 2012 with a degree in comparative literature. He was a Fulbright scholar and spent a year in Ukraine from 2012 to 2013. In 2025 Lavin came out as a trans man.

Career

Lavin worked as a fact-checker at The New Yorker. In 2018, he was hired as researcher on far-right extremism by Media Matters for America.

Until January 2019 Lavin wrote a weekly political column in HuffPost, and he also worked as a columnist for MSNBC Daily. His work appeared in the Washington Post as well.

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

Critical studies and reviews of Lavin's work

Culture warlords

References

  1. ↑ "CULTURE WARLORDS". Kirkus Reviews. 2020-07-28. Archived from the original on 2022-10-27. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
  2. ↑ "Wild Faith". Hachette Book Group. Archived from the original on 2024-07-08. 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. ↑ Lavin, Tal (November 13, 2025). "Fit check". Flaming Hydra. Retrieved 2025-11-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  10. ↑ Brady, Amy (2020-11-03). "Talia Lavin: Into the Abyss". Guernica. Archived from the original on 2022-06-13. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ Online version is titled "The Binc, unfocussed in time".