Hello everyone, I'm pleased today to talk to a thinker on the progressive front.

For many decades, Dr. Naomi Wolf, an American author and journalist, her first book, The

Beauty Myth, Challenged Notions of Attraction, arguing that they are societally fabricated.

This publication became an international bestseller, and cemented Wolf as one of the leading

spokeswomen for the so-called third wave feminist movement.

In recent years, interestingly enough, she's come under fire, especially on the left for

becoming an anti-vaxxer and a conspiracy theorist, a strange destination for a progressive thinker,

which led Wolf to write her most recent book, The Bodies of Others, The New Authoritarians

COVID-19 and the war against the human, looking forward very much to talking to Dr. Wolf

today to delve into the possession of the left, reprehensible possession in her estimation

by the Marxist doctrines that were popularized throughout the 20th century to understand how

that's come about and to analyze the role played by organizations such as the Chinese Communist

Party.

I guess the first question I have for you, Dr. Wolf, is why did you agree to talk to me?

Why wouldn't I?

Oh, well, lots of people don't.

I've asked all sorts of people on the left for years to appear on my podcast and that

standard answer is, now I don't know precisely by the way if you can be placed politically

on the left.

I know your views have changed somewhat dramatically over time, and we're going to investigate

that.

I've invited people, especially political figures on the left, to speak with me repeatedly,

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