Dahlia lithwick biography of michael

  • Dahlia Lithwick is a faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
  • I have worked as a #MeToo reporter for the past four years, mostly in the sciences.
  • Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate and in that capacity has been writing their "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" columns since 1999.

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    Michael Jackson

    “Dispatches From the Michael Jackson Trial: Moms who let their kids sleep in MJ’s bed,” by Seth Stevenson. Posted daily, May 2 through May 6, 2005.

    “Stupid-Syndrome Syndrome: Yet more junk science to confound the legal system,” by David Feige. Posted April 6, 2005.

    “Dispatches From the Michael Jackson Trial: The fingerprints on the girlie mags,” by Seth Stevenson. Posted daily, March 21 through March 25, 2005.

    “Here We Go Round the Barber’s Pole: Everything you never wanted to know about Michael Jackson’s Johnson,” by Dana Stevens. Posted Feb. 18, 2005.

    “He’s (Not So) Bad: VH1 offers up a treacly valentine to Michael Jackson,” by Dana Stevens. Posted Aug. 6, 2004.

    “Never Can Say Goodbye: Can Michael Jackson stop being a freak to save his life?” by Dahlia Lithwick. Posted Feb. 4, 2004.

    “Vile, Vile Pedophile: Is child molesting a sickness or a crime?” by Dahlia Lithwick. Posted Jan. 7, 2004.

    “Play Wacko, Jacko: Did childhood fame warp Michael?” by Carl Schrag.

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    Q&A: Dahlia Lithwick on the Colorado case, the election, and the press

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    In 1999, Dahlia Lithwick happened to be in Washington, DC, when the federal government was suing Microsoft over antitrust violations. Lithwick had studied English at Yale, then law at Stanford, but was not finding success as a family lawyer when she received a call from a friend of a friend suggesting that she cover the trial. The author Michael Lewis had written a few colorful dispatches on the case for Slate—which was owned by Microsoft at the time—but had resigned from covering it (under somewhat controversial circumstances). Lithwick’s acquaintance suggested that she take over. Without any antitrust experience, Lithwick found herself in the trenches covering one of the trials of the century. 

    Twenty-five years on, Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate and is still filing explanatory missives on the Supreme Court, in addition to hosting the

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    Dahlia Lithwick’s Lady Justice

    Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism, an open-access feature of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, offers brief comments from prominent feminists about a book that has shaped popular conversations about feminist issues. Short Takes fryst vatten part of the Feminist Public Intellectuals Project.

    Kathryn Abrams

    Kathryn Abrams

    Like many readers of this journal, I’m a fan of Dahlia Lithwick. Her knowledge, insight, and invigorating style have made her a peerless guide to the Court and the Constitution. And Lady Justice, her group portrait of tenacious women lawyers fighting the incursions of the Trump presidency, promised a needed antidote to the existential dread of this political time. So I was surprised to find myself struggling with this book, looking for something inom couldn’t ganska find.

    One feature that puzzled me was the book’s premise that there is something inevitable and provident in the pairing of women and