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Naomi Klein's book recommendations
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Naomi Klein’s most recommended books
- Empire of AI by Karen Hao
- Fire Alarm by Michael Löwy
- Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple
- Outrages by Naomi Wolf
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, support of ecofeminism and organized labour, and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism, and capitalism. On podcasts, Klein has discussed her own writing and recommended works by other authors. She referenced her book No Logo while explaining how 1990s celebrities became lifestyle brands. In discussions regarding her book End Times Fascism, co-authored with Astra Taylor, she cited its use of remarks by Alex Karp to illustrate Palantir's preparedness to profit from crises, explained its central point that planetary-scale crises have altered the conditions in which fascism rises, and discussed its examination of entrepreneurial influencers as a feature distinguishing modern fascism from earlier generations. For her reading recommendations, Klein endorsed Karen Hao's Empire of AI for its globe-trotting investigative reporting on the material and human inputs of AI, Molly Crabapple's forthcoming Here Where We Live Is Our Country as an exploration of alternatives, and Michael Löwy's Fire Alarm, Reading Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History, which examines the text Benjamin wrote before fleeing the Gestapo.
Books recommended by Naomi Klein
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End Times Fascism
End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor explores how far-right fringe ideologies and authoritarian tendencies manifest among the most powerful figures in contemporary government and corporate leadership.
Discussed“It's the vision Palantir is selling. We also quote Alex Karp saying that Palantir is built for bad times. Bad times are good for Palantir, meaning that they are planning for a world of rolling shocks, of increasing peril, of wars, of storms.”
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Empire of AI
Empire of AI by Karen Hao is an investigative non-fiction book that explores the human and material costs behind the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and Sam Altman's OpenAI.
Recommended“All right, so this is a little bit obvious, but but but Empire of AI um ; by Karen Hao. ; ; Just because it's it it's just such an incredible combination of just on the ground globe-trotting investigative reporting making the material inputs and human inputs of AI visible, but then it has this big idea thesis around empire”
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Fire Alarm
Fire Alarm by Michael Löwy is a close intellectual commentary and philosophical analysis of Walter Benjamin's famous text On the Concept of History, written while Benjamin was fleeing the Gestapo in 1940.
Recommended“And the third book is a book called Fire Alarm, Reading Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History by Michael Löwy. ; Um and Walter Benjamin is the is this is the text that he wrote ; ; right before he took his own life fleeing the Gestapo in 1940. ; Um and it gets at this idea of the”
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Here Where We Live Is Our Country
Molly Crabapple's Here Where We Live Is Our Country is a captivating historical work that explores the story of the Jewish Bund and the enduring search for political and cultural alternatives.
Recommended“Um I guess we've been talking around this, but um my my friend Molly Crabapple has an absolutely brilliant book coming out ; called Here Where We Live Is Our Country, the story of the Jewish ; un- Bund, and it's available for pre-order, comes out in April, and I think it gets at what an alternative story of hearness”
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No Logo
No Logo is a 1999 book by Naomi Klein that served as both an inspiration for and a chronicle of the burgeoning anti-globalization movement of the late twentieth century.
Discussed“You know, it was clear like we had the in No No Logo I wrote about the first um celebrities who were themselves lifestyle brands, like Michael Jordan and Oprah.”
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Outrages
Outrages by Naomi Wolf is a historical nonfiction book that examines same-sex desire and state suppression in nineteenth-century Britain.
Discussed“Yeah, so the year year before the pandemic in 2019 she published a book called Outrages ; and she very famously made um a a a basic like a a foundational factual error in that book where she misinterpreted a phrase in the historical record.”
Where to get it
Books by Naomi Klein
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No Logo
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The Shock Doctrine
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This Changes Everything
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On fire
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Doppelganger
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Vallas Y Ventanas
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The Battle for paradise
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How to Change Everything
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No War
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Sin Patrón
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The Making of a Democratic Economy
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You Have Not yet Been Defeated
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The Global activist's manual
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Reconciliation Manifesto
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Public Catastrophes, Private Losses
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End Times Fascism
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| 9/17/26: End Times Fascism with Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor | Breaking Points | 2026-09-17 | 4 |
| Naomi Klein on Trumpism and Our Age of ‘Unlikely Bedfellows’ | The Ezra Klein Show | The Ezra Klein Show | 2026-03-20 | 5 |
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“And I've been wanting to return to that theme, which was actually the subject of my first book uh that I wrote in the late 1990s and came out in 2000, No Logo.”
“Um and yeah, she wrote a bunch of best-selling books. She wrote a book called Fire with Fire.”
“This is sort of what I wrote about in The Shock Doctrine. This is the the revolution against regulation”