Facing the Beast

Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age

By: Naomi Wolf

Narrated by: Carolyn White

Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

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 fans 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.

©2023 Naomi Wolf (P)2023 Chelsea Green Publishing Company

Good but buries the lede

If you are clued in enough to want to read the book, the first 4 hours are not going to be new information for you. The interesting information comes from the Pfizer documents chapter onwards. That stuff is stunning.

An amazing account of the worldwide COVID debacle

I was glued to my iPhone listening to this book being so eloquently read. I’m grateful this book has been written and published and I pray many will read it and learn. I’m praying for our nation and the world, that we will become wiser, more understanding, loving and compassionate m, with God’s help. Oh how we need His help. Thank you Naomi Wolf!

A must read

I enjoyed her take on what had happened to the country. I appreciated the chapter in the Pfizer documents. I wish I could put at least that chapter in front of every American so they could see how we were all duped!!!

Excellent!

Thank you for having the courage and faith to stand your ground during that past 4 years and share your story.

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. Overal 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.

Insightful and interesting

So valuable to hear Naomi Wolf share her perspective on various issues before and after she was “canceled for doing what I have always done: asking questions.” Thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening!

The whole truth and nothing but the truth!

I give a lot of credit to people who tell the truth even when they have a lot at stake!

Naomi's story, Caroline's voice

I listened at 1.7X and felt like the narration couldn't have been better at capturing the nuances of the author's emotions committed to words.

Well researched and insightful

She brought out a lot of facts I was not aware if but the most fascinating part was following the author’s transition from proud coastal elite to a more normal human individual. She is still in her search for truth and it’s changed her along the way.

WOW!!

I am thankful for book and your revelation. Grace and Peace to you and yours.