Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age

by Naomi Wolf

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 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

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction, History, Biography Memoir

240 pages, Paperback

Published November 9, 2023

About the author

Naomi Wolf is the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Beauty Myth, The End of America and Give Me Liberty. She has toured the world speaking to audiences of all walks of life about gender equality, social justice, and, most recently, the defense of liberty in America and internationally. She is the cofounder of the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, which teaches ethics and empowerment to young women leaders, and is also a cofounder of the American Freedom Campaign, a grass roots democracy movement in the United States whose mission is the defense of the Constitution and the rule of law.

Reviews

[Rebecca Schaft · Rating 1 out of 5]

Audiobook.
Listening to someone complaining and complaining and complaining… I couldn’t handle anymore and stopped after 30 minutes. Maybe I’ll finish later.. maybe not.

Yes it’s a bummer when you used to be important and rich and lived in west manhattan, and your friends don’t like you anymore.
Maybe build better friendships not based on superficial elite stuff.

Also I really don’t like the use of a theory, without introduction, and than misuse is which non critical readers can easily miss.

I’m talking about the ‘10 steps that leads countries to facism’. The author makes a point off US being on step 10.
But which theory is this, by whom, and what does it fully say? It for sure isn’t Toni Morrison’s 1995 version of it. (Which says completely different things)

I don’t get the feeling this book is about ‘truth’. I’m getting the feeling this book is about ‘being right’
There is no space for nuance (or details). She is ‘the truth’ and ‘historical’ (yup she actually said this about herself in track 2 already). Maybe I’m to European, but who talks about him/herself in such a way. It’s ridiculous to write about observations in such a way. The book is written to convince, not written to inform.

[Patrick Duran · Rating 5 out of 5]

What does it mean to face the beast? Ms. Wolf poses the question: "Does it mean facing the fact that evil on an unimaginable scale is having its way with our world? Or does it mean facing the ugliness, the hatred that manifested so hideously from inside the selves of so many of us?" All of us who lived in a lockdown or mandate state for three years will "always live with a shadow of fear."

During the COVID hysteria, some people became the basest humans, denouncing others who had the temerity to exercise their personal freedoms. Some hospitals even threatened to deny medical care to those unvaccinated. Naomi Wolf had the gall to give voice to studies showing the Pfizer vaccine was affecting women's menstrual cycles, among other more dangerous adverse side effects. In return, she was vilified by the medical community, denounced by most of the liberal media, and had her life threatened. Despite the cancel culture, the journey of self-reflection this caused has emboldened Ms. Wolf, and has made her more spiritual and stronger. She realized the elitist snobs with whom she socialized were empty and vapid, so she found a new community more in tune with her new beliefs. People who are accepting of others and their freedoms.

"If you want the Kingdom of Heaven," she writes, "it turns out that other people simply acting decently to one another, in community, are in fact the Kingdom of Heaven."

[Richard T. Powell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not alone

Through out this covid thing I always felt things became.... Just wrong. Naomi gets at what exact is wrong. While I read Naomi I don't feel alone and helps me understand the unease I've felt since it all started.

[Frances · Rating 4 out of 5]

A progressive author for 20 years finds herself ostracized for sharing actual data, Pfizer and Moderna documents. The story of her journey, spiritual and personal changes through the realization of what actually happened over the last 3.5 years. Actually offers Mea Culpa for conservatives.

[Bart Van Bos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Accurate coverage on the pandemic of totalitarianism.

I really liked the factual overview of the medical and governance crimes commited, which is still something most of the populus isn't vaguely aware of (for a number of reasons, including self-protection).

Very sharply written and the comparison with Nazi Germany '30-'33 is spot on. I totally agree with her conclusion that a society can't really heal, improve and move on, before some kind of accountability and justice has prevailed. Overall the book resonated very deeply with my experience, except for the mystical parts described in the final chapters.

As to her gradual move from "the left" to "the right" and her grand awakening... I can totally concur. I have made the same, inevitable "shift" after I discovered all the lies, manipulation and moralizing of legacy media and its pundits, although I think the society made a shift and I more or less remained the same, loyal to my values and principles.

[Marilyn Valentine · Rating 5 out of 5]

I remember hearing Naomi Wolf interviewed about this book which is why I bought it. She talked about the bear that is mentioned in the book that had terrified her while alone when it became acclimated to her presence. But somewhere in the interview, she said during an encounter she acted as if she didn’t look at the bear it would just go away.
I so appreciate the investigative journalist that brings things to light that some of us were not aware of, or chose to ignore. All through the book I was constantly reminded of the quote that said “those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.” I hope we don’t forget what we’ve just been through in the last 3 1/2 years. And I hope we can be brave enough to truly look at what has happened to us these last 3 1/2 years and refuse to let it happen again.

[Debra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Naomi Wolf has written a book that lays out a lot of the facts surrounding the Covid beginnings and how it was used to attack our society and world wide society. This book also shares findings of Pfizer documents that the FDA wanted to keep unreleased for 75 years, but lawsuits forced them to release them and her team of professionals have been scouring them.

Folks, a lot of people were overloaded with fear from the very beginning of this insanity, but many people were not and could see exactly what was going on. The Pfizer documents bring the truth home and I am not sure that people even want to know the depth of the lies they swallowed or the incredible damage they have allowed to enter their bodies by receiving a vaccine, that was not a vaccine, but a very concerted effort to damage and kill people. One of the most horrifying things is that Pfizer knew exactly what this drug would do and one of its main attributes is that it ATTRACTED the Covid virus. Which is why we know so many people who got Covid after they got the vaccine. It also damages the female reproductive organs, causes heart defects, mostly in young men, and a myriad of evils. These things were ALL known before the drug was ever approved by the FDA.

I urge everyone to read this book. It is only $8.43 on Amazon right now. It is a short read, but will introduce everyone to some truths that are out there and proven. When are we going to see those responsible for the greatest evil that has been done since Hitler, punished? Every single media, college, hospital, etc., were bought off to force the vaccine on everyone. Biden and his ilk threatened everyone who would not get the vaccine. Heads should be rolling, but instead, we are supposed to pretend none of this happened.

If you want to know just a teeny bit about what has been done to YOU and to those you love. Read this book. Then, you can go and find the rest of the information that is out there.

Please note that Naomi Wolf was DE platformed, censored and turned into a pariah as soon as she started reporting these things. Just like every other person who tried to let the truth out.

Read this book. It is time to wake up.

[Michael Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heartbreaking yet hopeful

Wolf describes her snubbing from high society where she was used to being feted. She describes her research into policies regarding COVID as well as her own personal conclusions and conviction. Her life was changed, apparently for the better. Her writing pulls you along but don't forget to look at her references and citations. Her new "tribe" is better company than her old one and they have the receipts regarding our lockdowns and mandates. Her hopefulness seems to come from rubbing shoulders with regular people and her improving spiritual health.

[Kevin Madden · Rating 5 out of 5]

An Engrossing Look at the Tyranny of 2020-2023

Conversationally written, with data to back up the thesis of U.S./global tyranny and the tragedy of lives wasted and lost during the Covid time. Very readable and insightful.

[Michelle Shine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not only does Naomi Wolf write insightfully and honestly about the most pressing issues of our time, she also writes creatively and beautifully. I highly recommend this book.

[Alex Frame · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some repetition from her previous book "The Bodies of Others" but a look at her personal journey after being lied to then ostracised by the Liberals she once hobnobbed with for her views on the Covid pandemic and policies relating to it and her gradual epiphany and move to the right where open debate now existed.
She faced the truth about Covid the only way one can and that was to tear down one's values and rebuild them.
Her journey mirrors millions of others as the betrayal by our governments who many once trusted awakened the masses.
Surely the Government wasn't part of a conspiracy to poison us , to wreck our kids' immune systems , to even attempt to kill us, to destroy our ability to reproduce by mandating this untested mRNA injection under emergency orders?
Surely not?
Naomi Wolf says they surely did quoting from the Pfizer studies forcibly released that among many other horror stories caused women to lose their babies during pregnancy and for that she was outcast by her peers and is now reborn.
Good for her , good for us all.

[Sharlyn Zimmerman-Tollefson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting as she was a staunch democrat whose was awakened by the covid scamdemic.

[Fleur · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chapter 20 in particular really surprised me and I thoroughly appreciated it. Well done Naomi Wolf. A powerful and brave book which in time will be useful to look back on and make sense of these last few years.

[Negin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I adore Naomi Wolf, and this is the second book that I’ve read by her.

Here are some of my favorite quotes.

Accountability
“To have healing, there must be justice. To have a free society, we must have a history. In this major historical moment, we had a massive betrayal of the social contract; one committed by millions. The social contract cannot be reknit without public accountability, trials, public confrontations, and sentencing. Let the school board members who masked the children be sued in civil court. Let them do community service in bright orange vests. Let them pick up trash along the sides of the roads. ‘I MASKED YOUR CHILD FOR NO REASON’ their vests should read, as furious parents honk at them in passing. Let the members of the Boards of Health who shut down their neighbors’ businesses for no reason, face civil charges. Let their names be published in the newspapers. Let them be hounded out of their communities. Let those who shunned the unvaccinated and disinvited them from their galas and dinner parties, experience for themselves what that feels like, and face the fact that they were hateful and engaged in hate. Let the deans who took millions of dollars from nonprofits to adopt policies to mandate vaccines for healthy young college students—vaccines that disrupted the cycles and damaged the hearts of perfectly healthy young women and men in their charge—face trials for racketeering and trafficking, for reckless endangerment and coercion. Let the pharma executives and the heads of the FDA be tried for fraud and battery. Let the trials begin. For people to be part of a healthy society they need to face themselves. These quislings and collaborators must be confronted with what they did. Will I let it go? Will I forget? Will I forgive? On another morning, maybe, I pray that I will.
Amos promised: ‘Let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.’ Jesus said, in the gospel of Matthew, ‘Think not that I am come to bring peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.’ Maybe they meant that there are times to make amends, but there are other times when it is necessary to overturn the tables of the corrupt.”



EU
“Quickly, the unelected deciders of the EU became more powerful than were the parliamentary leaders at the national level in Greece or Portugal or Spain. Quickly, citizens of various European countries lost the skills of understanding how their local and national levers of power worked; EU citizens were encouraged to leave it all to the bureaucrats at a level high above that of national parliaments.”

Everybody adores a Fascist
“Many progressive urban elites, especially, while expressing themselves on social media, seemed to like being ‘locked down’; seemed to boast about how isolated they were, in the depths of our mass incarceration; seemed even to enjoy being scared of ‘the virus’—seemed to like having something larger than themselves, larger than their $12 green juices and their pilates workouts at Equinox Luxury Fitness Club, larger than their swiping right on dating apps, larger than the ‘Culture’ section of the New York Times, on which to focus, and to which to yield their passions. They were hungry for a cause, for a way to be part of the collective ‘greater good,’ for a methodology to demonstrate their self-sacrifice; and so the ‘rules’ handed down one after another by what friends of mine are now calling ‘our overlords,’ seemed to stimulate, fulfill, and gratify that longing for greater meaning, that desire to yield to authority and to lose one’s troublesome, bored, neurotic self in the collective ‘altruistic’ hive mind. Their lust for obedience had in it an element of pleasure; an erotic of submission as captured in the only half-joking phrase on a meme, ‘Lock me down harder, Daddy.’ The past three years, this social lust for submission, coinciding with a lust for domination and control; this embrace by certain elites of the performing of cruelty and of imposing cruelty (injections, more and more of them; the masks, the isolation) on oneself—recall of course the Sylvia Plath poem, ‘Daddy,’ in which Plath makes the case that ‘every woman adores a Fascist.’ But in this case those adoring the fascist were of both genders, and the brute was the worshipped State.”

Fauci
“Dr. Anthony Fauci, that entangled mass of compromised spiritual matter who had presided over the intentional wastelands of the pandemic; who had for two years delivered in his nasal Brooklyn cadences its lie-based soundbites, with their dearth of scientific studies, that wrecked livelihoods, destroyed kids’ educations, and that drove whole communities into destitution—had declared, as if he were God Himself, that the pandemic was over. Well—okay then!”

Globalists
“What happened, in the seventy-plus years since the end of the Second World War, is that an elite international class of technocrats, EU bureaucrats, global nonprofit leaders, and international investors has developed, in which allegiance to the relationships, programs, profits, and outcomes of that global class is more immediate and important to its members than are any of the relationships, allegiances, rights, property, and outrage of their fellow countrymen and women. To these people, the nation-state—even one’s own nation-state of origin—is an artifact; a secondary, sentimental add-on. What really matters are other global elites in one’s social circle and business network, and the valuable relationships one can create with them. One’s ‘ordinary’ countrymen and women recede and become theoretical. And the constant message one receives from one’s peers and from the elite metanational culture is that those ‘ordinary’ men and women simply are not as smart or well-educated as one’s metanational peers, and so it would be a disaster to let them make their own decisions. One is saving them from their own fecklessness, ignorance, and shortsightedness, by deciding for them.
Stanley Milgram, a Yale University psychologist, devised an experiment in 1963 that revealed that most ordinary people—as he found, 65 percent—would administer what they believed were shocks to innocent victims, up to what they believed could be lethal shocks, if they were told to do so by an authority figure.3 As the Milgram experiments showed, if you are shielded from the victim whom you are harming and you have an authoritative directive to harm that victim, then easily enough, ‘normal’ people conveniently become monsters and abusers. With this in mind, you can understand how many global elites—who are lovely one-on-one, nice to their kids, and so on—can execute vast cruelty without even noticing. That is the situation of the new elite class and the cultural and economic environment I am describing. It set the groundwork for the extraordinary global cruelty from these metanational elites to men and women in the street. It set the stage for the cruelty of the lockstep COVID-19 policy in which we suddenly found ourselves.”

The Laptop Class
“What contributed to turning the culture of liberal elites, in cities especially, into a fertile soil for breeding acts of public cruelty? Coming from that world, and having lived in it for decades—and now living in a totally different world, a world that we may call ‘the Rest of America’—I suspect that one contributing factor to this sadism/sadomasochism of the elites is what Freud and Reich both suggested could be dangerous: that is, the systematic denial of pleasure, spirituality, fun, and meaning in the lives of the ‘laptop class.’ The world of liberal elites is one of workaholism, in which family life is often downgraded as a priority, and in which spiritual life has little focus on it at all; it is also made joyless by constant self-surveillance and self-denial.
It is a world full of opaque rules, and the rules constantly shift; some of the rules are about virtue signaling, so you don’t get kicked out of your tight, judgmental, privileged little society; but many of the rules are about maintaining a class status that feels, to members of this group, as if it is constantly in danger. Only by one’s knowing the secret codes of the elite—how one is supposed to talk, dress, decorate one’s home, entertain—can one signal to others that one is a member of the in-group and that one knows its rigid signifiers. The code serves to keep everyone else out, even as it reinforces the status of the insiders. But the code, along with the workaholism, contributes to the self-denying atmosphere—the sense of deprivation in relation to spontaneity and fun.”

Mirror Imaging
“Something that is slowing down many people from fully grasping what is upon us, is that they are making mistakes in their reasoning about events, because they are engaged, naturally enough, in what intelligence analysts call ‘mirror imaging.’ That is, because most of us are decent people with basic compassion at our cores, and are not sociopaths or psychopaths, we tend to ‘mirror image’ in assuming that others are also driven by basic human motivations such as empathy, altruism, and kindness—or even just by the notion that other human beings are also deserving of life, self-determination, and dignity. How can such brutality be imposed on us? How could others be at the helm of such vicious policies? But this assumption, that those who influence events and make certain key decisions are ‘like us’—is a fatal error.”

Pfizer
“Pfizer knew in May of 2021 that thirty-five minors’ hearts had been damaged a week after mRNA injection—but the FDA rolled out the emergency use authorization (EUA) for teens a month later anyway, and parents did not get a press release from the US government about heart harms till August 2021, after hundreds of thousands if not millions of teens and young adults were mRNA-vaccinated.”

They’re not Finished
“The bad guys are not done with us. Their goal is still a global feudalism.”

[Debra J Phelps · Rating 5 out of 5]

YOU ARE NOT ALONE

This book is a well written expression of a very realistic and astute woman who looks and experiences life in a deeper way than most. This book is for those who have longer to be heard, to hear like experiences from a person who is bold enough to face the beast and confront it. Her courage is admirable and inspiring as well as encouraging. She expressed the hurt and damage that is now permanent that most people don't even want to consider. She is night and courageous and we need millions more of her.

[Mandi · Rating 1 out of 5]

Although I agree with Naomi that the whole COVID thing was an atrocity committed by our government that should not be just forgotten and forgiven, I do not like how this book was written. One minute she's on a rant about government injustice and the next she's talking about her dying dog. Naomi, I know you can write, but this book was awful.

[Mark Roossinck · Rating 5 out of 5]

The truth about liberalism from a former insider! This was spurred on by the COVID-19 fiasco! There’s more to this than what the media’s telling us!

[Becky L Long · Rating 5 out of 5]

Audiobook. Phenomenal. I hope everyone reads this book. The author points out and gives evidence for many aspects of the past 3 years that most would like to stick their heads in the sand and ignore. Thank you for honoring your commitment to keep questioning and researching and thinking for yourself. I only wish there were more that stayed true. Living in rural Kansas wasn't the worst place to be during the pandemic. While Kansas was officially a lock down state for a short time, most counties refused many of the mandates of the state government. Def an interesting time to see how government worked in reality vs theory. Hope not all is lost. Anyway read the book, make your own opinion. Welcome to real America Naomi. We're glad to have you.

[Fred Brachman · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Truth about Covid Vaccines told by A Lifelong Democrat Journalist

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.

[Fred Brachman · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Truth about Covid Vaccines told by A Former Democrat Journalist

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.  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.

[Tabitha Merritt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating chronicle of this honest thinking lady! I first encountered her on Eric Metaxas’ podcast, she is a clear and earnest educated woman, and has walked through some intense fires personally and professionally. In this read, she shares her story especially through 2020 & the challenges it brought to thinking citizenry. Highly recommend for those who would appreciate hearing an honest approach from a person unafraid to “follow the science” to its logical conclusions.

[Dave Grandy · Rating 1 out of 5]

I suppose this rant helped the author vent her anger toward those who saw things differently during the pandemic. For me though it was singularly unhelpful and bordered on pity-party navel gazing. She said she's "forgiven" neighbors and erstwhile friends. If this what forgiveness looks like. I want no part of it.

[Barbara Clarke · Rating 4 out of 5]

It sounds like in Facing the Beast that Naomi Wolf's long-time friends, the ones who either ignored her or cut her out of that world, were not worth keeping. And the new friends are gems and worth the pain and loneliness she (and many of us) have gone through over our decisions about the pandemic.

It was comforting in an odd way to read how many of the same reactions I had to "her world and the powerful people in it" and how it felt to have your eyes opened. Sometimes the shock of how much I believed at one time (Fox news - bad, Tucker - evil) changed even before covid hit. So, anyone who is embarrassed at how blind they were to the wicked, destructive power structures that we now call American democracy take heart. You'll love finding out the truth.

One quarrel I have with Naomi is her chapter on Forgiveness. Yes, we have to learn to forgive - first ourselves and then others. I think she's done a spectacular job of the self type; not so much the rest of her old friends and what happened to her. This came out, for me, loud and clear in her chapter Red Sparkly Shoes. She's still pissed at what happened to her by "those people" as Hillary likes to say. So am I at how I was treated but I know from family history that it takes a really long time, if ever, to truly forgive those who have harmed us.

What I really enjoyed, and surprised myself since up until the pandemic I wasn't much of a God person. My experiences trying several religion were not great but once my eyes were open - starting with Fauci and the AIDS epidemic and then the Fauci/Gates/Wuhan/DARPA/WHO/etc. eased me into wanting to find the good in the world and to face the beast as Naomi said. So, the info on her religion, spirituality, and basically the fact that there is an "ungodly" amount of evil trying to run the world, I read those chapters twice - great reading and great thinking made easier to understand. Thanks, Naomi.

One other minor point - this book, rightly, is about her struggle and censoring. I just felt that a chapter say on how not alone she was and a few more examples of what others were doing - facing their beasts - would have put some spotlight on them and off of her.

Now that the crimes that were committed on people all over the world are leaking out, her book is even more of a retrospective but still very useful and helpful. My problem is I don't know of anyone who has "bought the package" and still relies on MSNBC, the NYT, etc. to inform them would welcome my offer of loaning it out to them.

[Philemon - · Rating 4 out of 5]

>>> Making this a SPOILER because it's probably too political for GR.

A fascinating trip to the psyche of a liberal feminist icon who posted an antivax tweet and found that that sufficed to get herself canceled by nearly everyone she knew. Desperate to become an an active icon again, she flipped to the far right and became one overnight after appearing on Tucker Carlson and apologizing to Trump world for ever having believed there was an attack on the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021.

Wolf's new world is too passionate to allow connecting dots. For instance, she views Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci as an axis of evil, in line with Big Pharma, instituted mask, social isolation, and vaccine mandates in order deliberately to destroy the mental and physical health of Americans. But she neglects to note that these policies were followed all over the world (e.g., it's an easy Google to find that vaccination for health workers was nearly universal). Were Gates and Fauci responsible in all these nations too?

Re Jan. 6, she fell for Carlson's alternate-world video edit as if it could take precedence over the live TV coverage we all saw in real time. No further comment.

She rails against a deep-state conspiracy that's trying to strip Americans of precious constitutional rights, but doesn't so much as mention Roe v. Wade and the taking away of women's control over their own bodies, which happened a year before she finished the book. How's that for a switch?

Note: the above examples are not meant to push a left vs. right political position. They're there simply to show how submersion into a (new) culture can lead to forfeiture of rationality.

Antivax should be her field of specialization, but she doesn't go beyond allegation and innuendo. Passion is meant to more than make up for thinness of documentation.

In fairness, let's acknowledge that the new Naomi Wolf must now see anyone on the left pretty much as the latter now sees her: as a misguided case who simply ignores truth and can't connect the dots. The "I vs. them" must doubtless be all but identical whichever tribe derivative happens to be spying across the abyss.

America was founded on an the Enlightenment's commitment to reason. This book foreshadows the chaos to be expected when a critical mass of the population decides that reason itself is corrupt.

[Steve Eubanks · Rating 5 out of 5]

This age has brought about a lot of surprises, revelations actually. One of the biggest has been the number of people you thought were allies, even friends, who turned into tiny tyrants the moment they received tacit permission to be cruel. On the flip side, many people you assumed were wrong or a little kooky turned out to be the ones you want beside you in the foxholes we’ll be digging soon.

Pre-2020, I never read a word from Naomi Wolf and would have laughed at the suggestion. Wasn’t she the woman who told Al Gore to wear brown suits? A Yalie? One of those tony Georgetown people who used nicknames for the rich and famous?…Bob De Niro has a new movie coming out and it’s simply marvelous. Did you read the Ted Agnew biography? Pity, such a tragic figure.

I’m embarrassed and ashamed that I thought that way. Just as Ms Wolf offered a heartfelt apology in these pages, it is time to do likewise. I’m sorry.

She writes like a delicate songbird, with the pentameter of a poet but the brilliant simplicity of your favorite professor, each word, each personal anecdote drawing you closer to a an important reveal.

Unlike “The Bodies of Others,” which I also recommend for its amazingly research and irrefutable logic, this book is Ms Wolf’s personal journey from those status dinner parties where the uniform for men was khakis, white oxfords opened at the top two buttons, blue blazers (English cut, obviously), and brown loafers with bridle buckles or kiltie tassels, to a world where no one cares what you wear or where (or even if) you went to school. But more importantly, this is a spiritual journey of rediscovering reason and the God who imbued it in all of us.

This book is short and easy - one or two sittings - but it’s worth your time. It will make you think. And at its end you may find yourself doing what I did: Apologizing.

[Melanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I actually started singing "Chip on My Shoulder" from the Legally Blonde musical while reading this book. When Wolf's views changed her life changed as well. All our choices have consequences, and she didn't like the consequences of hers. In other reviews people talk about being impressed with the research that she did. However, the measures taken such as masking, social distancing, and even a shut down are things she should have found in her research to make her a bit more forgiving. She also goes into January 6th. Okay, the police office died of a couple of strokes in the hospital of natural causes. So, getting beaten with a fire extinguisher had nothing to do with stress on his body. Oh, the stroke is because he was vaccinated. I saw this as a bitter person working hard to find the research to prove her point.

How did this book find me? I try to read several sides on modern issues.

[Leslie Yong · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow praise for the book, “Facing The Beast” by Naomi Wolf.
Praise for the author daringly defy being deplatform has written this amazingly powerful book on what she gone through during her time of Covid19 pandemic in US. Despite of all the odd against her she unwittingly written it out without compromising.
The author relates how she has transformed herself personally and spiritually during those divisive time in American history.
Interestingly, The author explores various factors that exposes what many people faces at the time of COVID19 lockdown pandemic on public health and medical freedom
This book reminds us that the searching for and defending the truth can be dangerous sometimes.

[Bette Stanek · Rating 4 out of 5]

View the journey of a progressive journalist who realizes something is wrong with the CoV2 narrative, questions it, and is instantly ostracized by her former friends and colleagues. Wolf is an excellent investigative journalist whose research is impeccable. She chronicles her experiences as she speaks out about the truth of the pandemic. She offers a mea culpa to those labeled as conspiracy theorists, those who tried to speak out, those who wanted to bring attention to the faulty data, and those who stood up to those pushing a destructive narrative. Wolf's writing is easy to read. You can feel her anguish and frustration. She is inspiring!

[Susan F. McClure · Rating 5 out of 5]

Started reading her books in 2021; secondary to seeing her books on Children’s Health Defense. This books aligns with what I am going through with a doctor daughter; whose beliefs are opposite of mine. Her 3rd child, first grandson; is due soon and I will not be allowed to have physical contact until child is 2 months; secondary to my refusal to comply with her vaccination demands. I am 81; and will not comply. When I recommended “The Pfizer Papers”; her comment was “Wolf is a mediocre writer and then sent me one of 20 plus books Dr. Paul Offit wrote on pro-vaccines..So Wolf’s book aligns with the psychological and spiritual warfare I am currently going through.

[Stephan Adriani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ik heb de Nederlandse versie gelezen. Een persoonlijk verslag van een vrouw met een uitgesproken mening over wat er op het wereldtoneel gaande was en is tijdens de coronapandemie. Een van de weinigen die zich blijft uitspreken. Hier en daar wat theatraal maar hulde wat mij betreft. Ze heeft het, ben ik bang, bij het rechte eind. Als ongevaccineerde deel ik een groot deel van haar ervaringen. Zij vond de woorden om haar afschuw over toen en zorgen over straks te uiten en te tonen. Ik zoek nog naar die woorden. Dit boek helpt.