Tal Lavin


Tal Lavin 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 into 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.

Books

;Culture warlords
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