Michelle Goldberg
Michelle Goldberg (born 1975)[1] is an American journalist and author, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. 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.[2] Her books are Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism (2006); The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World (2009); and The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West (2015).
Michelle Goldberg
1975 (age 48–49)
Journalist, author
Early life and education[edit]
Goldberg was born in a Jewish family in Buffalo, New York,[1] the daughter of Carolyn and Gerald Goldberg.[3][4] Her father was managing editor of The Buffalo News and her mother was a math professor at Niagara County Community College.[4] Goldberg received 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.[5]
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." Goldberg later told the Buffalo News, "Just like someone who says, 'I'm going to kill you,' I didn't mean it literally. I didn't call the article 'A Call to Arms'."[6][7]
Personal life[edit]
Goldberg lives in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, Matthew Ipcar,[1][13] in "a small apartment with small kids."[33] She describes herself in Kingdom Coming as a secular Jew.[34]
