Naomi Klein and Her Doppelgänger
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Laura Marsh discusses the differences between Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf.
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Naomi Klein and Her Doppelganger | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
On this episode of the Time of Monsters podcast, Laura Marsh discusses Noami Klein's new book, Doppleganger, about Noami Wolf.
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US journalist Naomi Klein (L), columnist for The Nation and The Guardian and the author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, speaks as Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize–winning economist and University Professor at Columbia University, listens at a debate on Economic Power on October 20, 2008, during the Great Issues Forum at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in New York.
(Stan Honda / AFP via Getty Images)Naomi Klein, the esteemed author of The Shock Doctrine and other essential guides to politics, has long had to deal with the minor annoyance that many people conflate her with Naomi Wolf, the increasingly crankish writer best known for her first book, The Beauty Myth. This minor annoyance has become something worse in the Covid era, as Wolf has rebranded herself as a major opponent of vaccination and increasingly allied herself with far right figures like Steve Bannon.
In response, Klein has written a book, called Doppelganger, about Wolf, which might seem like too gimmicky an idea. But in fact, Klein has written an excellent book, one that uses Wolf as a symptom of wider problems of fragmentation and alienation in the age of multiple crisis that are tearing apart the social fabric. The book asks why so many people becoming unmoored and attracted to conspiracy theories. It also provides sobering thoughts about the program needed to renew our shared sense of reality and social purpose. Laura Marsh, literary editor of The New Republic, wrote an excellent long essay that tackled the issues raised by Klein’s book. On this episode of The Time of Monsters, I talked to Laura about this profound and essential new book and the issues it raises.
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Factchecking Won’t Save Democracy | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
For this week's edition of The Time of Monsters podcast, we're posting a talk that host Jeet Heer gave at Carleton University earlier this November on how the crisis of democracy is related to the crisis of journalism. In the talk, I argue that we are living in an age where the salient political divide is not so much left/right as system/antisytem. Liberals have tried to fight antisystem politicians like Donald Trump by doubling down on factchecking.
But as I argue, this strategy is deeply flawed since voters who respond to antisystem arguments are also skeptical of institutions that claim to check facts. The talk tries to lay out a strategy for engaging with antisystem anger in a more productive way.
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