Michelle Goldberg

Michelle Goldberg
Born	1975 Buffalo, New York
Education	Masters Degree in journalism from UC Berkeley
Occupation	Journalist, Author
Religion	Judaism
Website
http://www.michellegoldberg.net

Michelle Goldberg (born 1975) is a Brooklyn-based journalist and the author of the books Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, and The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World. She is formerly a contributing writer at Salon.com.^[1] Her work has been published in the magazines The New Republic, Rolling Stone, and Glamour, and in The Guardian, The LA Times, and other newspapers. She is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and a columnist for The Daily Beast.

Publications

She is the author of two books, the first being Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism (Norton 2006), the second being The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World (Penguin 2009) about "the global battle over women's rights".^[2]

Controversy

On May 13, 2012, Goldberg caused some controversy when she appeared on MSNBC and called Ann Romney "insufferable"^[3] and derided Romney's phrase "crown of motherhood" which appeared in Romney's pre-Mother's Day op-ed in USA Today as "really kind of creepy" and compared this to how "authoritarian societies that give out like 'The Cross of Motherhood,' that give awards for big families. You know, Stalin did it, Hitler did it."^[4] Goldberg later called her comment a mistake, but declined to apologize to Mrs. Romney by saying, "So my apologies aren't for Ann Romney, but for everyone else. I'm truly sorry to have given the right a pretext for another tedious spasm of feigned outrage."^[5]

Books

• Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. ISBN 978-0-393-06094-2
• The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World. New York: Penguin Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59420-208-7

Notes

1. ^ Jose, Katharine (2009-03-31). Our Bodies, Our Hells (HTML). The New York Observer. The New York Observer, LLC. April 5, 2009.
2. ^ Michelle Goldberg, "Teaching professionals" faculty webpage at the Department of Journalism, School of Arts and Sciences, New York University, accessed February 18, 2007.
3. ^ Mark Finkelstein. "MSNBC Guest Calls Ann Romney 'Insufferable', Her Mother's Day Op-Ed 'Creepy'". http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2012/05/13/msnbc-guest-calls-ann-romney-insufferable-her-mothers-day-op-ed-cr. Retrieved 2012-05-15. 
4. ^ Jonathan S. Tobin. "Contentions: The War on Ann Romney". http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/05/14/the-war-on-ann-romney-michelle-goldberg-motherhood/. Retrieved 2012-05-15. 
5. ^ Michelle Goldberg. "Michelle Goldberg on the Ann Romney Hitler Tempest". http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/14/michelle-goldberg-on-the-ann-romney-hitler-tempest.html. Retrieved 2012-05-15. 

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