Michelle Goldberg

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Michelle Goldberg was formerly a senior contributing writer at The Nation.

Starving College Students and the Shredded Social Contract

Starving College Students and the Shredded Social Contract Starving College Students and the Shredded Social Contract

Economic desperation among college students helps explain why millenials don’t believe in small government. 

Mar 17, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg

Columbia University Fired Two Eminent Public Intellectuals. Here’s Why It Matters.

Columbia University Fired Two Eminent Public Intellectuals. Here’s Why It Matters. Columbia University Fired Two Eminent Public Intellectuals. Here’s Why It Matters.

The fate of Carole Vance and Kim Hopper should worry everyone who wants academics to play a larger role in public debates.

Mar 12, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg

Paul Ryan’s Culture Canard

Paul Ryan’s Culture Canard Paul Ryan’s Culture Canard

“Inner-city men,” says Ryan, need to learn the “value and the culture of work.”

Mar 12, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg

Paul Ryan’s CPAC Speech Was Based on a Lie

Paul Ryan’s CPAC Speech Was Based on a Lie Paul Ryan’s CPAC Speech Was Based on a Lie

The kid in Ryan’s “full stomach…empty soul” CPAC speech is actually an advocate for free school lunches.

Mar 7, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg

Adolph Reed and Electoral Nihilism

Adolph Reed and Electoral Nihilism Adolph Reed and Electoral Nihilism

The return of the left-wing fantasy that there’s no difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Mar 3, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg

The Pro-Israel Freakout

The Pro-Israel Freakout The Pro-Israel Freakout

Censorship at Jewish museums and a crude new anti–J Street documentary suggest a pro-Israel establishment in a panic.

Feb 21, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg

When Does Religious Freedom Mean Freedom to Discriminate?

When Does Religious Freedom Mean Freedom to Discriminate? When Does Religious Freedom Mean Freedom to Discriminate?

A Kansas bill to allow segregation against gay people shows us where the right’s conception of religious liberty leads. 

Feb 14, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg

Why Do We Have Unsafe Abortion in the United States?

Why Do We Have Unsafe Abortion in the United States? Why Do We Have Unsafe Abortion in the United States?

A searing New Yorker story about a rogue abortion provider shows that unsafe abortion has persisted in post-Roe America—likely because of anti-abortion regulations.

Feb 4, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg

New York’s Outrageous Attempt to Ban Academic BDS

New York’s Outrageous Attempt to Ban Academic BDS New York’s Outrageous Attempt to Ban Academic BDS

Is New York’s decision to take action against academic BDS an assault on the First Amendment?

Jan 29, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg

Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars

Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars

Empowered by social media, feminists are calling one another out for ideological offenses. Is it good for the movement? And whose movement is it?

Jan 29, 2014 / Feature / Michelle Goldberg

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