Michelle Goldberg is an opinion columnist at The New York Times, where she has written since 2017. She was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting on workplace sexual harassment, and has also received two Front Page Awards from the Newswomen’s Club of New York for opinion and criticism and the Hillman Prize for opinion and analysis.
Her first book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, about religious authoritarianism in American politics, was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. She then traveled to countries including India, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, and Poland to write The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World, a book about global battles over gender and reproductive rights, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award and the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize. She later wrote The Goddess Pose, a book about wellness culture and the Western fascination with Eastern spirituality as refracted through the story of the Russian yoga teacher Indra Devi.
Goldberg is an on-air contributor at MSNOW, and her work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The Nation, among others. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.