The Dig: Down the Rabbit Hole w/ Naomi Klein
How the pandemic turbocharged the conspiracist far right.
October 18, 2024
1 hr 40 min
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October 18, 2024
The Dig: Down the Rabbit Hole w/ Naomi Klein
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<p>Featuring Naomi Klein on how the pandemic turbocharged a far-right conspiracist politics that’s sweeping into power. This strange new world, however, is a product of an old contradiction: the need to disavow and deny a long history and awful present; the inability to make sense of the extreme violence and oppression that makes everyday Western capitalist society possible. </p>
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</p><p>We discuss Klein’s book <em>Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World </em>and her <em>Guardian</em> essay "How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war": <a href="http://theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/oct/05/israel-gaza-october-7-memorials" rel="nofollow">theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/oct/05/israel-gaza-october-7-memorials</a></p><p></p>
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