Facing the Beast

By Naomi Wolf,

Book cover of Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age

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From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Facing the Beast is a devastating, detailed account of wrongthink, deplatforming, and an unexpected political, personal, and spiritual transformation that followed during one of the most divisive times in American history.

In this uncompromising investigation into today's most urgent issues, Naomi Wolf…

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A poignant meditation on one woman's journey through pandemic- and post-pandemic-America.

It's all here: the casual cruelty of the functionaries enforcing the ever-shifting melange of totally nonsensical pandemic rules and restrictions ("We're just following the CDC guidelines," they liked to say, echoing a famous phrase from a famous series of trials decades ago); the gleeful sadism of friends, family, and even co-religionists who were happy to cut her out of their lives for refusing to muzzle herself and get shot up with some criminal organization's experimental gene therapy; the cowardice of the men who messaged her, thanking her for her…

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