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Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age Paperback – November 9, 2023

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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 Wolf uses her own wildly politicized pilgrimage―from New York Times bestselling author and high-level Democratic consultant to a journalist cast out from the elite political and social circles she once moved through―as a stunning narrative framework that is both chilling and incisive.

Wolf’s sin? Doing the job that good journalists once prided themselves on: asking questions, challenging authority, and, during one of the most politically divisive moments in modern history, exposing the many failures of the public health response during the COVID-19 pandemic by chronicling the dangerous descent of our democracy into tyranny, censorship, and totalitarianism.

Unable to remain silent in the shadows and unwilling to collude with the mainstream, Wolf bravely covers topics that few other writers dare to address critically for fear of being deplatformed. Facing the Beast explores reproductive rights, medical freedom, the uncurious thought-policing of the “progressive” left, the Second Amendment, the criminal relationship between the FDA and Pfizer―Wolf’s clear writing repeatedly shines light in the dark corners of our fractured society.

A decades-long champion of free speech, freedom of the press, and the Constitution, Wolf found herself not only in the midst of a political rebirth but a spiritual transformation as well―one in which the events of the day could only be described in terms of good, evil, and a metaphysical quest on the nature of reality.

For readers of Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, and Bari Weiss, Facing the Beast is a fearless indictment of legacy media and the political class, as well as a brutal reminder that searching for and defending the truth can be dangerous.

“Naomi Wolf is one of the bravest, clearest-thinking people I know. The reason you hear the forces of repression so desperately trying to dismiss her is because she is right.”―Tucker Carlson

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“When Western leaders abandoned reason and embraced the ideology of force several years ago, Naomi Wolf was one of few who understood instantly what was happening. She decided to tell the full truth about it all the time, no matter what. The result has been a thrilling inspiration to those of us who’ve followed it, and for the first time is collected here in one place. Read Facing the Beast to understand what bravery looks like.”―Tucker Carlson



“In the crisis of our lives and of everything we call civilization, Naomi Wolf has been a prescient observer, a keen analyst, and brave fighter for truth and freedom. Everything in her life and career prepared her for this moment. We all owe her a debt of gratitude for what she has done and continues to do for the great cause. Like her last book, Facing the Beast stands as a testament to truth in times gone mad.”―Jeffrey Tucker, president, Brownstone Institute



“Today’s world has been constructed to divide us. Naomi Wolf has seen through the lies and deception. In her personal journey, described in Facing the Beast, she unequivocally came to understand the universal principle―that all of humanity is connected. Dr. Wolf fights for our God-given rights and freedoms. I am honored to call her friend.”―Edward Dowd, author of Cause Unknown

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Naomi Wolf ’s most recent books include the New York Times bestsellers Vagina, The End of America, and Give Me Liberty, in addition to the landmark bestseller The Beauty Myth. A former Rhodes Scholar, she completed a doctorate in English language and literature from the University of Oxford in 2015, was a research fellow at Barnard College and the University of Oxford, and taught rhetoric at the George Washington University and Victorian studies at Stony Brook University. Wolf lives in the Hudson River Valley.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chelsea Green Publishing (November 9, 2023)
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Dr Naomi Wolf received a D Phil Degree in English Literature from the University of Oxford in 2015. Dr Wolf taught Victorian Studies as a Visiting Professor at SUNY Stony Brook, received a Barnard College Research Fellowship at the Center for Women and Gender, was recipient of a Rothermere American Institute Research Fellowship for her work on John Addington Symonds at the University of Oxford, and taught English Literature at George Washington University as a visiting lecturer. She's lectured widely on the themes in Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love, presenting lectures on Symonds and the themes in Outrages at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, at Balliol College, Oxford, and to the undergraduates in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford. She lectured about Symonds and Outrages for the first LGBTQ Colloquium at Rhodes House. Dr Wolf was a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale graduate. She's written eight nonfiction bestsellers, about women's issues and civil liberties, and is the CEO of DailyClout.io, a news site and legislative database in which actual US state and Federal legislation is shared digitally and read and explained weekly. She holds an honorary doctorate from Sweet Briar College. She and her family live in New York City.

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R. White
5.0 out of 5 stars "Read this to understand what bravery looks like," Tucker Carlson
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024
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Staggering book! From a gifted writer who, celebrated in one political camp, started questioning those vaunted and protected members of her power class about changes in messaging and intentions in recent years. She was met with unrepentant vitriolic tirades from "her own people" that shocked her world view and comfortably held paradigms. She tells her story largely as an expose of the power-and-thought dominance of high-placed people whose ideologies began to crumbled under the heat lamp of critical questioning. Articulate, BRAVE, and an amazing, somewhat excruciating, story where truth wins out in the end. Bravo!
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5.0 out of 5 stars "There's somthing happening here..."
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I have a friend, a lifelong and very dear friend, who is poles apart from me on most political and social issues. Every now and then, when I find something that looks to me like it makes my case, I mention it to this friend and then, almost invariably, he tells me something about this writer or speaker that I have just quoted that makes them look ridiculous.
I’m going to praise Naomi Wolf here, and I totally expect a crowd of opponents will react by telling me – or telling anyone who might read this review – a laundry list of things she has said or done in the past that make her look ridiculous. But I don’t care. I know nothing about Naomi Wolf except what I have read in this book, but if she’s like the rest of us, there will be things in her life and work that will look ridiculous. I’m confident of my convictions here not because I know and trust her, but because of the internal consistency and emotional integrity of this book and because of the enormous personal price she paid in writing it – or, more to the point – taking the stands she took during the Covid era that are the subject of this book.
What did she do? She swam against the current. Oh, that’s cool, you might say, I’m all about people who go against “the man,” they are rock stars. But in this case, Naomi went against the grain in a very non-cool kind of way. Her stand in refusing the Covid vaccine and having the temerity to criticize it in the public square completely alienated her from those folks – her lifelong allies, many of them – who fancy themselves as “influencers,” people who push the edge, progressivists, the cool kids, the in crowd.
Let’s get down to cases. What did she actually do? She had the temerity – from the very start - to question the safety and effectiveness of the covid vaccines. She had the temerity to refuse the vaccines herself. For whatever reasons, this proved to be the great heresy of the day, the great insult to her tribe, and she was banished, excommunicated.
That stand, in and of itself, is enough to justify praise, but the book does not stop there. It is not merely Naomi Wolf bragging about her insight and bravery, it is a story of revelation – of what she learned about her former crowd and about herself and the world through this experience.
The first thing I got from the book was simply information. Statistics and reports about widespread and profound harm caused by the Pfizer and Moderna injections. Extensive effects on child-bearing-aged women. Increases in maternal death, diminished birth rates, diminished ability to breast feed, and that’s not all. Widespread effects on heart health – particularly among young men. This alone would be enough justification for a book. I’ve seen mention of these problems elsewhere, but never with the emphasis, thoroughness and completeness that appear here. She argues that the widespread – indeed, worldwide – deceit that was involved in the marketing of the vaccines and the enforcement of lockdowns, and the widespread – indeed, worldwide – physical, emotional and economic harm that was wrought by them is without equal in all history.
That is, as they say in the movies, mighty big talk. Is it inflated? Maybe. But after reading this book I am at least ready to consider the idea. Here’s something that happened to me on a personal level, after reading the book. I’m retired and I spend a good deal of my weekday time at a local gym. Because of my own regular schedule there and the regular schedules of others, I have a nodding acquaintance with a few guys there. We don’t know each other well, but we share pleasantries as we pump the iron. I was so moved after reading this book that I spoke to these few guys about it. “It’s really something,” I said. “She talks about harm from the vaccines and the efforts to cover up that harm.” This was a bit of a departure from the “Hey, can you give me a spot for this set,” level of conversation that we all were used to. I really did not know how this would be received. I was about to be surprised. It turns out that everybody seems to have a story – a vaccine story. One guy’s young wife – who is the picture of health and fitness, I’ve seen her workouts – had to have heart surgery immediately after taking the shots. Others talked of long-term fatigue that took months of determined effort to get over. My own wife suffered from almost debilitating fatigue for several months after taking the shots, but I did not know that her experience was anything but unusual. Naomi Wolf reports that the bad effects from the vaccine were prevalent, not at all unusual, and oftentimes profound, particularly among young women.
But the book does not stop there. She goes on to document quite convincingly that many people in decision-making offices – in government, in “health” organizations, in commerce – knew of these harms, these hurtful potentials – and deliberately lied or stayed quiet about them. Moreover, even after it became apparent to anyone who watched with an unjaundiced eye that the vaccines did not do what they were first touted to do – they did not prevent the passing of the infection and their effectiveness in preventing or dulling the effect of infection was very short lived – the powers that be continued to enforce compliance through coercive means.
And I guess you could even get that much from other sources. There are podcasters who talk about it. But the book does not stop there. She goes on from documenting the evils of the lockdowns and the coerced vaccinations to ask the question “why?” or, maybe more accurately, “how?” How could this have happened in our modern, connected, constitutional, enlightened society, a society that has a proud tradition of honoring or at least permitting dissenters? What in the hell happened here?
And here is one of the turning points in the book and in Naomi Wolf’s life. She tells us directly that before the Covid scare and the attendant lockdowns, she was the most secular of persons. She, and the crowd she ran with, were thoroughly modern in their thinking. They did not entertain the idea that the was a spiritual, unseen, supernatural world that affects everyday life in the mundane world. But the worldwide scope of the deception and coercion and intimidation and profound harm involved in the vaccine and lockdown mandates shocked her out of the modern thinking she had been used to and comfortable with. Something so evil that succeeded so rapidly and so widely must have a force behind it that is other than human, she reasoned. And, if her stance on the vaccines and lockdowns was not enough to alienate her from her former friends, the idea that there are evil, spiritual forces at work in the world, that affect our daily lives, would surely do the trick. And it has. She is now shunned by those in the circles of power and influence where she was once celebrated.
But her ideas are not crackpot. There is nothing new about them. They are what Christians have always believed. The New Testament is full of encounters with demons and direct statements that the enemy of humanity is spiritual. In fact, she cites to many of these passages in the book.
Naomi Wolf is now sounding very much like a Biblical prophet.
She did not come to this conversion as a result of hearing preaching, she came to it when she, through the living of life, was confronted with an evil that was too big and too deep to otherwise explain.
In that way, she is like those four men that David Walsh writes of in his profound, beautiful, hopeful and widely-ignored book, After Ideology. He pointed to Solzhenitsyn and Camus and Dostoevsky and others as having come to a realization that the battle of life is indeed spiritual through “the truth of living life.” That is, through facing the vacuity of modern thought and its accordant effect of despair and death as it plays out in the life of human beings and nations.

Here is David Walsh: “What understanding and persuasion could not accomplish has now come about through experience…. A prolonged exposure to the consequences appears to have been the only way to break the infatuation with these systems [of modern thought]”
Naomi Wolf has seen the consequences.
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Fred Brachman
5.0 out of 5 stars The Truth about Covid Vaccines told by A Former Democrat Journalist
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2024
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Naomi Wolf is a great storyteller and journalist. She tells how she was ostricized from her elite society because she researched and reported the truth about covid vaccines damaging childbirth in women and men and the manufacturers having known that in advance from their clinical tests. As an independent and patriot, I respect and value journalists, physicians, politicians and others who risk their careers and livelihood to tell the truth to save humanity and our freedoms. Well worth reading if you care about your family and your country.
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Andi B in Chicagoland
5.0 out of 5 stars Courageous and truthful: riveting account of recent events.
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2023
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The author is well known to those of us who once subscribed to Ms. magazine which makes this collection of essays unusually compelling: Wolf, who is Jewish, begins with a litany of forgiveness for the businesses in her community which banned her maskless efforts to dine out at area restaurants or attend a movie during COVID.
Wolf’s husband is Catholic and when faced with the end of her beloved dog’s life Naomi considers praying to Mary in an essay on miracles in which she describes a long stem red rose miraculously caught on rocks just beneath the water flowing under her dog’s favorite spot on a bridge, a rose which remains intact and in place until after her dog’s natural death.
Wolf’s decision not to take The Shot closes formerly open doors mingling with cultural elites, a prelude to my favorite essay — an apology to conservatives!
As other reviewer’s note, the book is a gripping read and I, too, could not put it down — it’s that good!
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Dao Nelson
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderland Exposed
Reviewed in Canada on December 22, 2023
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I had the privileged of reading this book. I call it a privilege because it reveals that Naomi Wolf is one of the few human beings on this earth who posseses a pure and honest heart. Many people can only envy her for it. In this fascinating account, she tells the story of how she was demonized, rejected, betrayed, mocked and deplatformed by a world that once adored and celebrated her. Wonderland had been exposed. In this book, she will take you on a spiritual journey into impermanence and an existential voyage into finding out that there are good people and bad people on every political spectrum, every country, every religion, every race, every -ism, and thus our true allies are not found inside labels and symbols and human beings that can be easily infiltrated and corrupted and bribed.

The chapter "Have the Ancient Gods Returned?" is a powerful description on the paramount importance of morality for a civilization to prosper and maintain its mental health. Even though I'm not Jewish or Christian, I was heartbroken and disappointed by the cowardly behaviour of the Buddhist monastic community during the so-called "pandemic". This chapter resonated with me because our religious institutions failed us. They were more interested in maintaining their funding and popular status than in protecting the truth in the human world.
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Margaret Gambardella
5.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 9, 2024
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The information in this book really made me think and sent me on a journey to find out for myself.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent manual to teach sheepy intellectuals how to think
Reviewed in Spain on December 9, 2023
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Dr. Wolf is a testament to free thinking and an indictment to those who blindly follow the main stream current. They are told to jump and these pseudo intellectual’s only question how high.
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James Hislop
5.0 out of 5 stars Completely sincere
Reviewed in Australia on January 2, 2024
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Overall, this is an excellent book by Dr. Wolf, which I can highly recommend. It is the second of hers that I have read.

While there has been much written about the origins of covid-19, treatments and mistreatments of it, the reactions good and bad of governments the world over, and numerous other aspects, no one to date has said anything about the spiritual dimension of covid. Dr. Wolf's book fills this hitherto void. After a near brush with death in the form of appendicitis, Dr. Wolf is well placed to write on such matters.

The overall impression that emerges from the pages is one of sincerity. Readers may agree or disagree with her material, but there can be no doubt of her sincerity. For instance, she paints the picture of a miraculous rose that appears in a river around the time of the loss of her dog Mushroom. Through this story, Dr. Wolf challenges us to consider whether such an event is a modern day miracle. Roses grow in the wild, but not normally in a river and not aligned with the loss of a close family pet.

One point that I could not come to grips with was Dr. Wolf's praise for the concept of every woman in America owning and carrying a hand gun for self defence, as if that is going to solve the problem of violence. To be sure, Dr. Wolf means legally owning and carrying a gun. I think we can all agree that America is plagued with far too many illegal guns and their effects. Dr. Wolf was not advocating for the proliferation of illegal gun ownership. What I find hard to accept is that this is not going to result in many more shootings, either through theft of handbags containing guns, or vindictive women deciding to extract revenge via kinetic means.

Some chapters of the book parallel Dr. Wolf's substack writings, which I frequently read. They are not simply a cut and paste of them, but go deeper and broader than her substack writings. The chapter about the possible return of the old gods is one such chapter. The corresponding substack column, published circa March 2023, is worrying enough, but the chapter in the book was particularly terrifying. When I say terrifying, I don't mean scary like a cheap horror movie, I mean truly terrifying. Arguing over whether they are gods or demons is something we can work out another time. Dr. Wolf's point is that we appear to be opening a doorway into hell and inviting the residents of that place to come and join us. It is difficult to see how any good can come from such a course of action.

The last chapter is titled 'Soup' and extols the benefits of chicken soup, particularly the Jewish variety. The metaphor is well placed, and entirely appropriate. In reality, the entire book is chicken soup for the soul. The chapter provides a positive finishing note for the book.
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Chris Flowers MD
5.0 out of 5 stars A canceled woman’s journey through the last 3 years
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 11, 2023
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Easily readable book with its shocking revelations as to what happens to a prominent well loved writer from the Left, who asks questions, is consistent in her beliefs throughout and gets shunned for not following the narrative. Well worth a weekend’s read. See life from a different perspective and keep asking questions
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