Michelle Goldberg
Michelle Goldberg is an American writer and columnist.
- Opinion
- Donald Trump
Trump’s diarrhoea video was a wonderful lesson. The president wants to befoul us
On the surface, Trump longs for grandeur. But on some subconscious level he and those around him have a deep instinct for degradation.
- Michelle Goldberg
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- Opinion
- Cinema
Julia Roberts’ anti-woke film feels hopelessly dated in Trump’s America
There’s nothing wrong with the film’s premise: an apparently false accusation of sexual assault on the Yale campus. But here’s why it fails.
- Michelle Goldberg
- Opinion
- Culture wars
A MAGA influencer tried to be a tradwife in Australia. It almost broke her
Lauren Southern moved with her husband from Canada, where she’d grown up, to Australia where, she says, she lived in near-total isolation.
- Michelle Goldberg
- Opinion
- Epstein fallout
Trump’s fans forgive him everything. Why not the Epstein files?
Having nurtured conspiracy theories for his entire political career, Trump suddenly seems in danger of being consumed by one.
- Michelle Goldberg
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
At Glastonbury, left-wing politics are shocking again
Artists like Kneecap and Bob Vylan are rediscovering the cultural power of shock, largely because of horror unfolding in the Gaza Strip and the minefield of taboos around discussing them.
- Michelle Goldberg
- Opinion
- Billionaires
Done with media moguls, Succession’s creator has turned his gaze to tech billionaires
The terrifying power amassed by Silicon Valley big shots who sound like stoned Bond villains is enough to scare anyone. In Mountainhead, we meet them up close and personal.
- Michelle Goldberg
- Opinion
- Fertility
There is a solution to Donald Trump’s baby problem - he should resign
There is a problem of declining birthrates across many wealthy countries, but the nations where it has collapsed have one thing in common.
- Michelle Goldberg
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Why did so many people delude themselves about Trump?
Wall Street mistook skill for intelligence. Now we are all suffering.
- Michelle Goldberg
- Opinion
- US politics
How ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ led Americans back for another round
In the four years Trump was out of office, an eerie amnesia settled, allowing people to project onto him hopes that were utterly untethered from reality.
- Michelle Goldberg
- Opinion
- US politics
Trump wanted a jacked-up hothead in the FBI. Enter: Dan Bongino
A man who once claimed that his sole focus was “owning the libs” will now be second-in-command at the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
- Michelle Goldberg