A conversation with Talia Lavin, moderated by Shane Burley
March 30, 2022 | 5pm (PST)
Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy and Shane Burley, author of Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse as they address the global threat of fascism and conspiracy theory. Lavin and Burley’s deep expertise will help us to better understand both the escalating culture of hate and the psychology of radicalization unfurled by white nationalist groups. The role of resistance as realized in the emergent antifascist movement will also be discussed.
The lead sponsors for this program are the Mittleman Jewish Community Center and the Kostiner Cultural Education Fund joined by co-sponsors the Anti-Defamation League Pacific Northwest, Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, and the Rabbi Joshua Stampfer Cultural Programs Fund of OJMCHE.
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Talia Lavin is the author of Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, and a journalist who has focused on far-right movements since 2017. She is also the writer behind the newsletter The Sword and the Sandwich, a chronicle of the varying facets of the American right—and an ode to sandwiches. She has been published in GQ, New York Times Review of Books, New York Magazine, The New Republic, The Nation and many more places. She is currently working on her second book, about the communities that white supremacists spring from, with Hachette Books.
Shane Burley is a writer and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse (AK Press, 2021) and Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017), and the editor of the forthcoming book ¡No pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis. His work appears in places such as NBC News, The Daily Beast, Jewish Currents, Haaretz, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Baffler, and the Oregon Historical Quarterly.