Episode 388: Naomi Klein

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Naomi Klein is a senior correspondent at The Intercept and the author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo. Her most recent book is On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal. “I have no idea whether we will do this. All I know is there is a slim chance, a very slim chance, that we could make things a lot better than if we do nothing and just let it burn. The stakes of that are so high that I’m not going to spend my time trying to figure out whether our chances are good or not. I’m just gonna try to enlarge those chances.” Thanks to Mailchimp, Literati, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode. @NaomiAKlein naomiklein.org Klein on Longform [20:09] "The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s Her Corporate Worldview." (The Nation • April 2016) [23:46] On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal. (Naomi Klein • Simon & Schuster • 2019) [25:38] No Logo (Picador • 1999) [25:39] The Shock Doctrine (Picador • 2007) [25:40] This Changes Everything (Simon & Schuster • 2014) [44:31] "In a Summer of Wildfires and Hurricanes, My Son Asks 'Why Is Everything Going Wrong?'" (The Intercept • Sep 2017) [45:13] The Take (2004) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.6	will say that the economy is on the wrong track.
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