I think we were all in a little bit of whiplash.

One day we're all marching for one cause, and then the next day we're all marching for another

cause, and it becomes the most important cause.

And it's like, throw your pussy out out the window, now you're onto this.

And like, how did all of a sudden we're chanting and deepwater revolution?

Like, I don't know.

This is the reason interview with Nicholasby. My guest today is Nellie Bowles, who co-founded the immensely

popular Substack publication, The Free Press, where she writes TGIF, a weekly news roundup that

has earned a fanatical following. She's also the author of the brand new book, Morning After

the Revolution, Dispatches from the wrong side of history, a deeply reported account of how

America responded to COVID lockdowns and racial unrest in 2020 and 2021 and her tumultuous tenure at the New York Times.

This interview was recorded at a live event in New York City.

Here is the Reason interview with Nellie Bowles.

Nellie, thanks for talking to reason.

It is such a pleasure to be here and such a pleasure to be talking to you.

So the reviews.

I thought I was going to start with the elevator pitch.

Yeah, well, we'll get to that in a second, but the reviews are not good.

Here's the Guardian.

The Guardian says, morning after the revolution, a bad faith attack on woke.

The New Yorker calls it Nellie Bowles' failed provocations, wired.

There's nothing revolutionary about morning after the revolution.

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