Essays, updates, and arguments from Dr. Naomi Wolf, an eyewitness to a new dark age. Dr. Wolf shares her thoughts on how to keep liberty, justice, and human rights alive.
A Rhodes Scholar, former advisor to Clinton and Gore campaigns, and author of eight NYT nonfiction bestsellers, Dr. Naomi Wolf has been creating globally influential opinion for 28 years. She is CEO of DailyClout.
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Is Naomi Klein “Othering” Me Due to Family Ties’ Multi-Millions in Vaccine Money?
Klein’s Husband’s Multi-Billion-Dollar ‘PharmaCare’ Partnership; Her Father-in-Law’s Org’s $25 Million Grant from Bill Gates The writer, Naomi Klein, wrote a whole book, Doppelgänger: A Trip Into the Mirror World, weirdly, I gather, centering on me. I have intentionally not read it yet, and I had hoped not to have to do …
Among the Rich
Lost Confidence, Welling Shame Photo by Miikka A. on Unsplash I stepped back into Manhattan and Brooklyn last week, down to the city from my life in the deep upstate woods. I was revisiting the world of privilege that had ousted me in 2021, and that had been so confident …
Cities: How to Build for Love and Resistance; How to “Be Peace”
I’m writing on the morning of my 61st birthday — a phrase that does not trip off the tongue, or emerge easily on the keyboard! I am the only one awake yet — Brian is still asleep, and Loki, his fluffy fur having grown back after his late-summer grooming, is …
Neo-Marxism and the End of Language
How Globalist Oligarchs Are Targeting Western Meaning https://rumble.com/embed/v3rnxzj/?pub=mbdkr Language is changing in America; indeed, probably throughout the West. And the changes are not good. The changes I see being introduced into English speech in America, are designed to kill off the practices and assumptions of individual freedom and responsive representation that have …
Grief Enough for All: Fragments from Time in Israel and Palestine
Predictably, the world has flown apart after October 7th, as tribalism in both directions is driven by escalating emotions. When I post neutral accounts of horrific events on both “sides” of the divide, someone always interprets what I have done as partisanship on my part — as if I am …
Please Calm Down: The Importance of Staying Centered in a Global Crisis
Israel/Palestine is one subject that is almost impossible to address conscientiously and coherently. That is especially true at a time such as this, when our feeds and news outlets are flooded with images of atrocities, amplified at a scale that is only possible in a digital era. We also have friends …
Introduction to “Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith and Resistance in a New Dark Age”
Dearest Readers, My editors at Chelsea Green Publishing have graciously offered readers of this Substack an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith and Resistance in a New Dark Age — the Introduction. Facing the Beast is about the last three years, and about my personal journey — a …
Genocidal Ancestral Memory
Did Leaders with “Genocidal Memory” in their Ancestors’ Past, Help to Save Us? I promised God, as you recall, after I got a second chance to be alive, that I would write the things I most feared to write. This essay is in that category. We are in …
Expressionless Babies, Bored Lovers, And Other Changes in the Human Condition
https://rumble.com/embed/v3dfecs/?pub=mbdkr I feel that I make notes every day on saying goodbye to a world that has passed – and at times on noticing a new world that is barely stirring. So I mourn, and at times I hope. I’ve been traveling, and now I am home; so I …
“The Covenant of Death”
The Most Devastating Interview of My Life — with Dr James Thorp: How HHS Paid Millions to get 1000s of Drs to Damage Women; Hurt, Kill Babies. Please forgive my recent silence. I am locked in an apartment in Brooklyn, copyediting a new book (out in November with Chelsea Green), …
Soup: Food as Metaphor, How We Keep One Another Alive
Photo by Karolina Kołodziejczak on Unsplash I was supine on the couch, as I have been for a couple of weeks now, recovering from my very near brush with the Void. I’ve given myself, with my doctor’s blessing, permission to be in a state of “rest” — that retro condition …
Energies, Cont. What Good and Evil Flow Around Us?
I promised God, as you recall, in the hospital where I lay nearly dying, that, if I was allowed to live, I would write the things which I most feared to write. So here we are: starting. I sought my entire career to secure a reputation as a serious, academically-trained …