David Mar­golick is a long­time con­tribut­ing edi­tor at Van­i­ty Fair, where he writes about cul­ture, the media, and pol­i­tics. He served as nation­al legal affairs edi­tor at The New York Times, where he wrote the week­ly At the Bar col­umn for sev­en years. He is the author of Beyond Glo­ry and Strange Fruit: The Biog­ra­phy of a Song. He lives in New York City.