'Traitors to creation': Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on the far right's apocalypse alliance
Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan

'Traitors to creation': Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on the far right's apocalypse alliance

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 202646 min
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Last year Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor co-authored an essay in The Guardian with a provocative title: The Rise of End Times Fascism. In it they argued that a new alliance was emerging on the political right, made up of Christian fundamentalists, Silicon Valley billionaires and hardline ethnonationalists, bound together by a vision of the end of the world as we know it in which only they would survive. That essay has now become a book, End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World. On today’s podcast Klein and Taylor ta...

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You're listening to The Irish Times. It's Monday, October the 5th and you're very welcome to the Inside Politics podcast from The Irish Times. I'm Hugh Linehan. Naomi Klein is the author of many books, including No Logo, The Shock Doctrine and Doppelganger. Astra Taylor is a documentary filmmaker. She's

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the co-founder of The Debt Collective and she's the author of The Age of Insecurity. 18 months ago, they published a long essay in The Guardian with the provocative title of The Rise of End Times Fascism. They argued in that a new alliance was emerging on the political right, made up of Christian fundamentalists, Silicon Valley billionaires, and hardline

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ethnon nationalists. And they said that what binds them together is not a vision of the future, but a vision of the end of the world as we know it, with only they able to survive. That essay has now become a book, End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World. And Naomi and Astra, join me now. You're very welcome.

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