Book description
From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Facing the Beast is a devastating, detailed account of wrongthink, deplatforming, and an unexpected political, personal, and spiritual transformation that followed during one of the most divisive times in American history.
In this uncompromising investigation into today's most urgent issues, Naomi…
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A poignant meditation on one woman's journey through pandemic- and post-pandemic-America.
It's all here: the casual cruelty of the functionaries enforcing the ever-shifting melange of totally nonsensical pandemic rules and restrictions ("We're just following the CDC guidelines," they liked to say, echoing a famous phrase from a famous series of trials decades ago); the gleeful sadism of friends, family, and even co-religionists who were happy to cut her out of their lives for refusing to muzzle herself and get shot up with some criminal organization's experimental gene therapy; the cowardice of the men who messaged her, thanking her for her…
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On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
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