Brian Lehrer Weekend: Naomi Klein; Chancellor David Banks; New York Fashion Week
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
Naomi Klein: Navigating the 'Mirror World' (First) | Chancellor Banks on the New School Year (Starts at 33:30) | NY Fashion Week Comes to a Close (Starts at 1:06:30)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Brian Lair here. Up next, Brian Lair Weekend, three of our favorite segments from the week, |
| 0:04.8 | Package Together, for you to listen to on the weekend. So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the |
| 0:09.5 | radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNYC.org. |
| 0:30.6 | It's Brian Lair show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. As we welcome our next guest, |
| 0:36.4 | Naomi Klein, I wonder how many of you have her mixed up with the other Naomi, Naomi Wolf. |
| 0:44.0 | Klein is the author of books like The Shock Doctrine about disaster capitalism, |
| 0:49.2 | and this changes everything about the climate emergency, and she's been outspoken in her |
| 0:54.0 | support of policies like the Green New Deal. Naomi Wolf, as Klein describes, has become, quote, |
| 1:00.0 | one of the most effective creators and disseminators of misinformation and disinformation |
| 1:05.7 | about many of our most urgent crises, unquote. But Klein has so regularly been confused for Wolf, |
| 1:14.3 | once known as a leading feminist author, now more known as a regular on Steve Bannon's podcast, |
| 1:20.4 | that Klein used this experience of having a doppelganger as a premise for her new book out today |
| 1:27.6 | that she hopes will form a guide into what she deems our doppelganger culture, a culture that |
| 1:34.1 | we have come to think of in which we have come to think of ourselves as personal brands forging |
| 1:40.7 | a partitioned identity that is both us and not us, unquote. So important amid the social media echo |
| 1:47.5 | chamber and the proliferation of dangerous conspiracy theories, deep thinking and self-reflection |
| 1:53.5 | to boot in this new book called doppelganger a trip into the mirror world and Naomi Klein joins me |
| 2:00.7 | now. He's good to have you on the show. Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you so much, Brian. It's great |
| 2:06.2 | to speak with you again. And listen, there's our phones are open for Naomi Klein fans or anybody else |
| 2:12.5 | with a question on the ideas in the book, two, one, two, four, three, three, WNYC. And you open the book |
| 2:19.6 | with the line in my defense, it was never my intent to write this book. So I derived it. |
| 2:25.8 | Yes, it's, it then goes on. I did not have time. No one asked me to and many people cautioned against it. |
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