Hanna Rosin
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Hanna Rosin is an American journalist.
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[edit] Career
Hanna Rosin is a co-founder of DoubleX, a women's site connected to Slate. She is also a contributing editor at the Atlantic. She has written for the Washington Post, The New Yorker, GQ and New York after beginning her career as a staff writer for The New Republic. Rosin has also appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show and Air America's The Majority Report. A character portrayed by actress Chloë Sevigny in the movie Shattered Glass about Rosin's colleague at The New Republic, Stephen Glass, was loosely based on Rosin.[1][2]
Rosin has specialized in writing about religious-political issues, in particular the influence of evangelical Christians on the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign.[3] She is the author of God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America (ISBN 978-0-15-101262-6), published in September 2007. Based on a New Yorker story, the book follows several young Christians at Patrick Henry College, a new evangelical institution that teaches its students to "shape the culture and take back the nation." Rosin's portrayals of the students are part of a larger attempt to chronicle the cultural and political history of the modern Christian right.[4]
In 2009, she published a controversial article in The Atlantic with the provocative title "The Case Against Breast-Feeding," questioning whether current social pressures in favor of breastfeeding were appropriate, and whether the science in support of the practice was conclusive.[5]
[edit] Personal life
Rosin graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1987, where she won a number of competitions on the debate team.[6] She is married to journalist David Plotz; they live in Washington, D.C. with their three children.[7]
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Hanna Rosin, Washington Post staff writer, to discuss "religious right" on the campaign trail". Princeton University. http://www.wws.princeton.edu/events/pressreleases/20051110rosin.html. Retrieved 2007-09-12. "Chloë Sevigny later portrayed her in "Shattered Glass" the movie about her New Republic colleague, Stephen Glass."
- ^ Howard Kurtz (2002-10-07). "Stephen Glass: The True Story". Washington Post. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NTQ/is_2002_Oct_7/ai_93978132. Retrieved 2007-09-12. "A female New Republic staffer played by Chloë Sevigny, though based loosely on Hanna Rosin (now also at The Post), is a composite."
- ^ Julia Osellame (2005-11-05). "Right wing on rise, says writer". Daily Princetonian. http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/11/11/news/13760.shtml. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
- ^ Nina Easton (2007-09-09). "Political Fundamentals". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/books/review/Easton-t.html?ref=books. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
- ^ Hanna Rosin (2009 April). "The Case Against Breast-Feeding". The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200904/case-against-breastfeeding. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
- ^ "Stuyvesant Policy Debate Alumni". http://www.drownout.com/debate/. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
- ^ "About David Plotz". The Genius Factory.net. http://www.thegeniusfactory.net/bio.php. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
[edit] Further reading
- McDermott, Nancy (20 April 2009). "‘Militant lactivism’: question it at your peril". Spiked. http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/6549/. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
[edit] External links
- Rosin articles on TheAtlantic.com
- Rosin on the Daily Show (June 27, 2005)
- Video (with mp3 available) of discussion with Rosin and Ruth Lawrence on Bloggingheads.tv (May 10, 2009)
