Politics

Partisan Politics and Social Disruption

August 4, 2022  • Aspen Community Programs

Featuring New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Michelle Goldberg and Tim Miller, a former RNC spokesman and communications director for the 2016 Jeb Bush Presidential campaign and currently Writer-at-Large at The Bulwark and author of Why We Did It (2022), in conversation with Vivian Schiller, Executive Director of Aspen Digital at the Aspen Institute.


Michelle Goldberg became an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in 2017 and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for public service for reporting on workplace sexual harassment issues. She is the author of three books: “Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism,” “The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World,” and “The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West.” Her first book was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, and her second won the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize and the J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award. Previously she was a columnist at Slate. A frequent commentator on radio and television, Ms. Goldberg’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Newsweek, The Nation, The New Republic, The Guardian and many other publications. She has reported from countries including India, Iraq, Egypt, Uganda, Nicaragua and Argentina. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.