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Jeffrey Goldberg - Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, Goldberg also writes the magazine's advice column.
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Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent, and the Washington correspondent, for The New Yorker. Previously, he served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. He has also written for the Jewish Daily Forward, and was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post.

His book Prisoners was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Progressive, Washingtonian magazine, and Playboy. Goldberg rthe recipient of the 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism. He is also the winner of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist; the Overseas Press Club award for best human-rights reporting; and the Abraham Cahan Prize in Journalism. He is also the recipient of 2005's Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize.

In 2001, Goldberg was appointed the Syrkin Fellow in Letters of the Jerusalem Foundation, and in 2002 he became a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
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Dishwashers Cause Impotence

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Dec 11 2008, 1:39 PM ET Comment

My latest advice column is now up. In it, I help Emily Yoffe, also known as Slate Magazine's Prudence, become better at her job. Here is her letter:

I couldn't help but notice that you've started an advice column, so maybe you can help me. I, too, write an advice column, for a prominent online magazine, and every day I get letters from people desperate for answers to life's grinding problems: husbands addicted to porn; boyfriends who won't brush their teeth; mothers-in-law who refuse to address their daughters-in-law by name; etc. So, Mr. Big Shot Advice Maven, tell me quick what instructions I should give these tormented souls--I've got a column to write. Also, why are men terrified of dishwashers?

Prudence
Washington, D.C.

Dear Prudence,

Men are terrified of dishwashers because dishwashers cause impotence. To answer your other questions: it's not the addiction that's the problem, it's forgetting to clear the computer's search history that causes trouble; your boyfriend is a vegan and doesn't want to harm any of the bacteria in his mouth; and isn't not addressing you by name better than calling you "the tramp who ruined my son's life"? If I can be of further help, please do let me know.




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