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Born in [[Buffalo, New York]], Goldberg earned a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree at the [[University at Buffalo|State University of New York at Buffalo]]; she also holds a [[Master of Science]] degree in journalism from the [[UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism|University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism]].<ref name="ContempAuthors"/>
Born in [[Buffalo, New York]], Goldberg earned a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree at the [[University at Buffalo|State University of New York at Buffalo]]; she also holds a [[Master of Science]] degree in journalism from the [[UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism|University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism]].<ref name="ContempAuthors"/>


From her early teens she was active in the [[abortion rights]] cause, escorting a pregnant 13-year-old friend to an abortion clinic when she herself was 13 and participating in protests and abortion-clinic defense as a high-school senior.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Nicole Peradotto |display-authors=etal |title=Crossfire: With a Huge Protest Looming, two UB Students Hold Firm in the Abortion Debate |url=https://buffalonews.com/news/crossfire-with-a-huge-protest-looming-two-ub-students-hold-firm-in-the-abortion-debate/article_aab91a6a-81ff-548e-9c38-b4e5b7ec3381.html |newspaper=Buffalo News |access-date=April 2, 2021 |date=March 17, 1996}}</ref> In an opinion column titled, "Rant for Choice," published in the student newspaper at [[State University of New York at Buffalo|SUNY Buffalo]] in 1995, Goldberg, wrote of on-campus [[anti-abortion]] demonstrators, "spit at them. Kick them in the head."
From her early teens she was active in the [[abortion rights]] cause, escorting a pregnant 13-year-old friend to an abortion clinic when she herself was 13 and participating in protests and abortion-clinic defense as a high-school senior.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Nicole Peradotto |display-authors=etal |title=Crossfire: With a Huge Protest Looming, two UB Students Hold Firm in the Abortion Debate |url=https://buffalonews.com/news/crossfire-with-a-huge-protest-looming-two-ub-students-hold-firm-in-the-abortion-debate/article_aab91a6a-81ff-548e-9c38-b4e5b7ec3381.html |newspaper=Buffalo News |access-date=April 2, 2021 |date=March 17, 1996}}</ref> In an opinion column titled, "Rant for Choice," published in the student newspaper at [[State University of New York at Buffalo|SUNY Buffalo]] in 1995, Goldberg, wrote of on-campus [[anti-abortion]] demonstrators, "spit at them. Kick them in the head." A kick to the head is aggravated assault under §13-1204 A.1. (AZ). Depending on the severity of the injury to the person's face or head, is a Class 3 Felony. Your friend would also be charged with the lesser included misdemeanor assault, likely under §13-1203 A.1. which is a Class 1 Misdemeanor. For the misdemeanor assault, your friend could face up to 6 months in jail, 3 years probation, and up to $2,500 in fines. Federally, D.C. states aggravated assault as a $250,000 fine and 10 Years Imprisonment.[6] [7] The public call to project bodily fluids is Aggravated Assault in CA, a Felony in D.C., and Indecent Assault in TX: Sec. 22.012.  INDECENT ASSAULT.  (a)  A person commits an offense if, without the other person's consent and with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person, the person: (4)  causes another person to contact the blood, seminal fluid, vaginal fluid, saliva, urine, or feces of any person. (b)  An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor. (c)  If conduct that constitutes an offense under this section also constitutes an offense under another law, the actor may be prosecuted under this section, the other law, or both.

In D.C. § 22–1805. Persons advising, inciting, or conniving at criminal offense to be charged as principals. § 22–1322. Rioting or inciting to riot. (a) A riot in the District of Columbia is a public disturbance involving an assemblage of 5 or more persons which by tumultuous and violent conduct or the threat thereof creates grave danger of damage or injury to property or persons. (d) If in the course and as a result of a riot a person suffers serious bodily harm or there is property damage in excess of $5,000, every person who willfully incited or urged others to engage in the riot shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 10 years or a fine of not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01, or both. Section 120.05 11-a.  12. Assault in the second degree. <nowiki>https://code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/22-1322.html#</nowiki> <nowiki>https://code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/22-1805.html#</nowiki>


==Career==
==Career==

Revision as of 03:09, 23 May 2021

Michelle Goldberg
Goldberg on a Brooklyn Book Festival panel, 2012
Born1975 (age 48–49)
Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Alma materUniversity at Buffalo
University of California, Berkeley
Occupation(s)Journalist, author
EmployerThe New York Times
SpouseMatthew Ipcar
Websitemichellegoldberg.net

Michelle Goldberg (born 1975)[1] is an American journalist and author. She has been an op-ed columnist for The New York Times since 2017. She has been a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, a columnist for The Daily Beast and Slate, and a senior writer for The Nation magazine.[2]

Early life and education

Born in Buffalo, New York, Goldberg earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo; she also holds a Master of Science degree in journalism from the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.[1]

From her early teens she was active in the abortion rights cause, escorting a pregnant 13-year-old friend to an abortion clinic when she herself was 13 and participating in protests and abortion-clinic defense as a high-school senior.[3] In an opinion column titled, "Rant for Choice," published in the student newspaper at SUNY Buffalo in 1995, Goldberg, wrote of on-campus anti-abortion demonstrators, "spit at them. Kick them in the head." A kick to the head is aggravated assault under §13-1204 A.1. (AZ). Depending on the severity of the injury to the person's face or head, is a Class 3 Felony. Your friend would also be charged with the lesser included misdemeanor assault, likely under §13-1203 A.1. which is a Class 1 Misdemeanor. For the misdemeanor assault, your friend could face up to 6 months in jail, 3 years probation, and up to $2,500 in fines. Federally, D.C. states aggravated assault as a $250,000 fine and 10 Years Imprisonment.[6] [7] The public call to project bodily fluids is Aggravated Assault in CA, a Felony in D.C., and Indecent Assault in TX: Sec. 22.012.  INDECENT ASSAULT.  (a)  A person commits an offense if, without the other person's consent and with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person, the person: (4)  causes another person to contact the blood, seminal fluid, vaginal fluid, saliva, urine, or feces of any person. (b)  An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor. (c)  If conduct that constitutes an offense under this section also constitutes an offense under another law, the actor may be prosecuted under this section, the other law, or both.

In D.C. § 22–1805. Persons advising, inciting, or conniving at criminal offense to be charged as principals. § 22–1322. Rioting or inciting to riot. (a) A riot in the District of Columbia is a public disturbance involving an assemblage of 5 or more persons which by tumultuous and violent conduct or the threat thereof creates grave danger of damage or injury to property or persons. (d) If in the course and as a result of a riot a person suffers serious bodily harm or there is property damage in excess of $5,000, every person who willfully incited or urged others to engage in the riot shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 10 years or a fine of not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01, or both. Section 120.05 11-a.  12. Assault in the second degree. https://code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/22-1322.html# https://code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/22-1805.html#

Career

Beginning in 2002, Goldberg was for several years a senior writer for Salon.[4][5] For approximately two years, through September 2015, she was senior contributing writer at The Nation.[6]

She worked as a senior correspondent at The American Prospect and a columnist for The Daily Beast and Slate magazine.[1] Her work has been published in The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Tablet and Glamour,[7] and in The Guardian,[1] The New York Times, The Washington Post,[2] and other newspapers.

Books

Goldberg's first book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism (2006), was a finalist for the 2007 New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.[8] In 2009, she published The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World (2009),[8] which is based on her own reporting about the state of women's reproductive rights across several continents,[5] and explores what she terms the "international battle over reproductive rights."[9]

Opinions and controversies

In 2012, Goldberg criticized a column written by Ann Romney, wife of politician and businessman Mitt Romney, in USA Today; Romney wrote that there was "no crown more glorious" than the "crown of motherhood." Goldberg responded that such phrases reminded her of "pronatalist propaganda of World War II-era totalitarian regimes." Conservative media outlets criticized Goldberg for the remark; she subsequently said, "I should have realized that right-wingers were going to pretend that I was saying that Romney is akin to two of the century's most murderous tyrants... I'm truly sorry to have given the right a pretext for another tedious spasm of feigned outrage."[10]

Goldberg, a progressive, has sometimes criticized strains of intolerance within the left's discourse. In 2013 in "The Nation," Goldberg criticized the public and media reactions to a racist tweet by Justine Sacco, who was fired for tweeting "Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!" She wrote, "Almost any of us could be vulnerable to a crowd-sourced inquisition."[11] In a July 17, 2020, column in the "New York Times," headlined, "Do Progressives Have a Free Speech Problem?" Goldberg wrote, "The mass uprising following the killing of George Floyd has led to a necessary expansion of the boundaries of mainstream speech.... At the same time, a climate of punitive heretic-hunting, a recurrent feature of left-wing politics, has set in, enforced, in some cases, through workplace discipline, including firings."[12]

In 2014, Goldberg wrote a piece for The New Yorker, titled, "What is a Woman?," about the conflict between transgender women and some radical feminists.[13] It was criticized by Jos Truitt in the Columbia Journalism Review for what she saw as Goldberg wrongly siding with trans-exclusionary radical feminists (Terfs).[14]

Goldberg endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[15]

In the September 17, 2017 issue of The New York Times Book Review, Goldberg published a critical review of Vanessa Grigoriadis's study of college rape Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus, which included errors that the publication later corrected. "Michelle is free to dislike my book," Grigoriadis wrote to Book Review editor Pamela Paul. "She is not free to make demonstrably false statements that not only damage my book but my reputation and credibility as a reporter."[16]

The Book Review correction read, "A review on Page 11 this weekend about 'Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power and Consent on Campus,' by Vanessa Grigoriadis, refers incorrectly to her reporting on the issues. She does in fact write about Department of Justice statistics that say college-age women are less likely than nonstudent women of the same age to be victims of sexual assault; it is not the case that Grigoriadis was unaware of the department's findings. In addition, the review describes incorrectly Grigoriadis's presentation of statistics from the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. She showed that there is disagreement over whether the data are sound; it is not the case that she gave the reader 'no reason to believe' the statistics are wrong."[17]

Regarding the corrected review, Goldberg stated: "Two things are true here. I made a serious error. And one of the book's major claims about its subject isn't correct."[18] Goldberg also said that she would "give a kidney and five years of my life" to retract her errors and that "This whole thing is turning into a round robin of fuckups." According to Vanity Fair, one Times source called the incident "a significant error," while another described the fallout as "humiliating".[19]

New York Times columnist

The New York Times named Goldberg as an opinion columnist in September 2017.[20]

"We have entered a period of minority rule," Goldberg declared in her debut column, "Tyranny of the Minority," published September 25, 2017. Goldberg argued that the U.S. Constitution's bias toward small states in the Electoral College and U.S. Senate, along with the gerrymandering of U.S. House seats and other factors, gives the Republican Party a structural advantage in national elections, allowing it to win control of the federal government without winning the most votes nationwide. "Twice in the last 17 years, Republicans have lost the popular vote but won the presidency, and it could happen again," she warned. "[President Donald] Trump’s election has revealed many dark truths about this country. One of them is: We’re a lot less democratic than we might think."[21] Since then, many other political commentators have echoed Goldberg's critique.[22][23][24]

Goldberg was a strong critic of Donald Trump's presidency. "If Trump loses, it won’t be just because enough women recognize him as a deranged bigot," she wrote in an October 17, 2020, column headlined, "Trump’s Misogyny Might Finally Catch Up With Him." "It will because he blighted too many of their lives."[25]

From 2018 to 2021, Goldberg appeared on the weekly podcast "The Argument," in which she and other columnists for the newspaper debated major national issues.[26] Much of the ideological disagreement on the podcast arose between Goldberg and conservative columnist Ross Douthat, though in their final appearance together on the show in February 2021, each reflected on how the other's arguments had influenced them.[27]

Personal life

Goldberg lives in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, Matthew Ipcar,[1][9] in "a small apartment with small kids."[28] She is a self-described secular Jew.[29]

Bibliography

  • Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. New York: W. W. Norton. 2006.
  • The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World
  • "What is a woman? The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism". American Chronicles. The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 22. August 4, 2014. pp. 24–28.
  • The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West. Knopf. 2015. ISBN 978-0307593511.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Michelle Goldberg". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2016. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, 2017-01-28.
  2. ^ a b "Michelle Goldberg". The Nation. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
  3. ^ Nicole Peradotto; et al. (March 17, 1996). "Crossfire: With a Huge Protest Looming, two UB Students Hold Firm in the Abortion Debate". Buffalo News. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
  4. ^ "Michelle Goldberg". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2016. "Salon.com, New York, NY, senior writer, beginning in 2002". Retrieved via Biography in Context database, 2017-01-28.
  5. ^ a b Jose, Katharine P. (March 31, 2009). "Our Bodies, Our Hells". The New York Observer (review of Michelle Goldberg, The Means of Reproduction). Archived from the original on December 2, 2010. Retrieved 2017-01-27. Ms. Goldberg, a former senior writer for Salon.com, ...
  6. ^ "Masthead". The Nation. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
  7. ^ "Michelle Goldberg". The Daily Beast. thedailybeast.com. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  8. ^ a b "Mentorship Program: Michelle Goldberg". The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. New York University. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
  9. ^ a b "About the Author". Michelle Goldberg. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  10. ^ Goldberg, Michelle. "Michelle Goldberg on the Ann Romney Hitler Tempest". Retrieved 2012-05-15.
  11. ^ Goldberg, Michelle (2013-12-23). "Sympathy for Justine Sacco". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2020-11-05.
  12. ^ Goldberg, Michelle (2020-07-17). "Do Progressives Have a Free Speech Problem?". Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  13. ^ Goldberg, Michelle. "What Is a Woman?". The New Yorker.
  14. ^ "Why The New Yorker's radical feminism and transgenderism piece was one-sided". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2020-11-05.
  15. ^ Goldberg, Michelle. Hard Choices: I used to hate Hillary. Now I’m voting for her. Slate. February 10, 2016.
  16. ^ Wemple, Erik (September 15, 2017). "New York Times publishes eye-popping correction on campus-sexual-assault book review". The Washington Post blogs.
  17. ^ Goldberg, Michelle (2017-09-07). "Shining a Light on Campus Rape". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-10-25.
  18. ^ "Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 2017-10-25.
  19. ^ Pompeo, Joe. "'Humiliating': Inside the Latest Controversy to Roil The New York Times". Vanity Fair.
  20. ^ Watson, Stephen T. (September 6, 2017). "Amherst native Goldberg is named New York Times opinion columnist". The Buffalo News. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
  21. ^ Goldberg, Michelle (2017-09-25). "Tyranny of the Minority". Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  22. ^ Klein, Ezra (2020-09-25). "RBG, minority rule, and our looming legitimacy crisis". Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  23. ^ Owen, Kenneth (2020-12-02). "Minority Rule Cannot Last in America". Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  24. ^ Berman, Ari (2021-03-01). "The Insurrection Was Put Down. The GOP Plan for Minority Rule Marches On". Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  25. ^ Goldberg, Michelle (2020-10-17). "Trump's Misogyny Might Finally Catch Up With Him". Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  26. ^ "'Jane Coaston named new host of The Argument'". 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  27. ^ "'I've never hated anything as much as I hate this'". 2021-02-03. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  28. ^ Goldberg, Michelle (December 22, 2020). "Opinion | Who Can Endure the Loneliness Required of This Moment?" – via NYTimes.com.
  29. ^ Althouse, Peter; Waddell, Robby (2010). "Perspectives in Pentecostal Eschatology: World Without End". Casemate Publishers. p. 303. ISBN 0227680294. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
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