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
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, truthout, September 9, 2022