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Wolf’s landmark international bestseller, The Beauty Myth, challenged the cosmetics industry and the marketing of unrealistic standards of beauty, launching a new wave of feminism in the early 1990s. The New York Times called it one of the most important books of the 20th century. Her next book, Vagina: A Cultural History, will be released in 2012.
Wolf’s New York Times bestseller, The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, is an impassioned call to return to the aspirations and beliefs of the Founders’ ideals of liberty. The New York Times called the documentary version “pointedly inflammatory.†Her latest book, Give Me Liberty: A Handbook For American Revolutionaries, includes effective tools for citizens to promote civic engagement and create sustainable democracy.
Her international journalism includes the investigative report “Guantánamo Bay: The Inside Story†for The Times of London, and as a columnist for Project Syndicate her articles have been published in India, Philippines, Egypt, and Lebanon. She’s a frequent blogger on The Huffington Post and writes cultural commentary for The Guardian, The Washington Post, and Harper’s Bazaar. Her TV appearances include Larry King Live, Meet the Press, The Joyce Behar Show, and The Colbert Report.
A graduate of Yale and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Wolf was a consultant to Al Gore during his presidential campaign on women’s issues and social policy. She is co-founder of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, an organization that teaches leadership to young women, and 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.
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Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Dear Friends, Sorry to Announce a Genocide - Dr. Naomi Wolf on the Pfizer "Confidential Report" It's really true. They know they are killing the babies.
Wednesday, June 1, 2022Dear Friends, Sorry to Announce a Genocide - Dr. Naomi Wolf on the Pfizer "Confidential Report" It's really true. They know they are killing the babies.
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Saturday, January 15, 2022
Is it Time for Intellectuals to Talk About God? The forces of darkness are so big that we need help. Our goal? Perhaps just to keep the light somehow alive - a light of true classical humane values, of reason, of democracy, inclusion, kindness in this dark time.
Saturday, January 15, 2022Is it Time for Intellectuals to Talk About God? The forces of darkness are so big that we need help. Our goal? Perhaps just to keep the light somehow alive - a light of true classical humane values, of reason, of democracy, inclusion, kindness in this dark time.
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Sunday, February 3, 2013
JSoc: Obama's Secret Assassins Scahill and Rowley track this new model of US warfare that strikes at civilians and insurgents alike -- in 70 countries. They interview former JSoc assassins, who are shell-shocked at how the "kill lists" they are given keep expanding, even as they eliminate more and more people.
Sunday, February 3, 2013JSoc: Obama's Secret Assassins Scahill and Rowley track this new model of US warfare that strikes at civilians and insurgents alike -- in 70 countries. They interview former JSoc assassins, who are shell-shocked at how the "kill lists" they are given keep expanding, even as they eliminate more and more people.
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Lovelace: A Feminism-Free "Feminist" Critique Of The Pornography Industry The movie details the rise, fall, and rebirth of a young woman, Linda Boreman, who leaves her repressive family for the manipulative Chuck Traynor. His violent control transforms her into a "spokesmodel" for fellatio in the first porn film to be mass-marketed: Deep Throat. Finally, she begins a new life with a new family. It is a highly conventional narrative about women and sexuality.
Saturday, January 26, 2013Lovelace: A Feminism-Free "Feminist" Critique Of The Pornography Industry The movie details the rise, fall, and rebirth of a young woman, Linda Boreman, who leaves her repressive family for the manipulative Chuck Traynor. His violent control transforms her into a "spokesmodel" for fellatio in the first porn film to be mass-marketed: Deep Throat. Finally, she begins a new life with a new family. It is a highly conventional narrative about women and sexuality.
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
Will Obama's "War On Weed" Really Ride Roughshod Over American Voters? The "war on drugs" generates far bigger consequences than mere buzz suppression -- from racist incarceration outcomes, to prison lobbies writing our laws, to the mass disenfranchisement of the felons convicted of marijuana possession, whose conviction prevents them from being allowed to vote.
Saturday, January 12, 2013Will Obama's "War On Weed" Really Ride Roughshod Over American Voters? The "war on drugs" generates far bigger consequences than mere buzz suppression -- from racist incarceration outcomes, to prison lobbies writing our laws, to the mass disenfranchisement of the felons convicted of marijuana possession, whose conviction prevents them from being allowed to vote.
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Friday, January 4, 2013
A letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty's apology for torture It seems implausible that scenes such as those involving two top-secret, futuristic helicopters could be made without Pentagon help, for example. If the film received that kind of undisclosed, in-kind support from the defense department, then that would free up million of dollars for the gigantic ad campaign that a film like this needs to compete to win audience.
Friday, January 4, 2013A letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty's apology for torture It seems implausible that scenes such as those involving two top-secret, futuristic helicopters could be made without Pentagon help, for example. If the film received that kind of undisclosed, in-kind support from the defense department, then that would free up million of dollars for the gigantic ad campaign that a film like this needs to compete to win audience.
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Revealed: How The FBI Coordinated The Crackdown On Occupy Documents show that from the start, the FBI -- though it acknowledges Occupy movement as being, in fact, a peaceful organization -- nonetheless designated OWS repeatedly as a "terrorist threat." It was never really about "the terrorists." It was not even about civil unrest. It was always about this moment, when vast crimes might be uncovered by citizens -- it was always, that is to say, meant to be about you.
Saturday, December 29, 2012Revealed: How The FBI Coordinated The Crackdown On Occupy Documents show that from the start, the FBI -- though it acknowledges Occupy movement as being, in fact, a peaceful organization -- nonetheless designated OWS repeatedly as a "terrorist threat." It was never really about "the terrorists." It was not even about civil unrest. It was always about this moment, when vast crimes might be uncovered by citizens -- it was always, that is to say, meant to be about you.
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
The coming drone attack on America The Pentagon can now send a domestic drone to hover outside your apartment window, collecting footage of you and your family, if the secretary of Defense approves it. Or it may track you and your friends and pick up audio of your conversations, on your way, say, to protest or vote or talk to your representative, if you are not "specifically identified," a determination that is so vague as to be meaningless.
Saturday, December 22, 2012The coming drone attack on America The Pentagon can now send a domestic drone to hover outside your apartment window, collecting footage of you and your family, if the secretary of Defense approves it. Or it may track you and your friends and pick up audio of your conversations, on your way, say, to protest or vote or talk to your representative, if you are not "specifically identified," a determination that is so vague as to be meaningless.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
NYPD for hire: how uniformed New York cops moonlight for banks An independent, uncorrupted municipal police force should be our thin blue line: defenders against crime, protectors of public safety, guarantors of citizens' rights. If these officers of the law become or have already become a private militia for hire, to whom can we turn on the frontline of justice?
Tuesday, December 18, 2012NYPD for hire: how uniformed New York cops moonlight for banks An independent, uncorrupted municipal police force should be our thin blue line: defenders against crime, protectors of public safety, guarantors of citizens' rights. If these officers of the law become or have already become a private militia for hire, to whom can we turn on the frontline of justice?
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Feinstein amendment doubles down on NDAA's assault on constitutional rights Many questions press on this issue: why are there repeated efforts by Congress to affirm the power of military detention of Americans? Why are Obama's lawyers drafting language that yet more broadly targets journalists and activists who might be subjected to military detention? And, just as important, why is this appalling and historic set of developments not front-page news in every newspaper in the land?
Thursday, December 6, 2012Feinstein amendment doubles down on NDAA's assault on constitutional rights Many questions press on this issue: why are there repeated efforts by Congress to affirm the power of military detention of Americans? Why are Obama's lawyers drafting language that yet more broadly targets journalists and activists who might be subjected to military detention? And, just as important, why is this appalling and historic set of developments not front-page news in every newspaper in the land?
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Sunday, November 4, 2012
A cure for America's corruptible voting system If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy -- and important for the vote always to turn out "their way." Indeed, former President Carter's voting accountability organization sees America's system as relatively flawed and corrupted.
Sunday, November 4, 2012A cure for America's corruptible voting system If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy -- and important for the vote always to turn out "their way." Indeed, former President Carter's voting accountability organization sees America's system as relatively flawed and corrupted.
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
ACLU fights the good fight to stop government surveillance of our citizens The ACLU says the FBI and NSA are abusing the warrantless dragnet surveillance. When the organization filed a FOIA request to see how it was actually being used, the FBI sent them some heavily redacted pages and explained that they could not yield more information about the surveillance since the business of turning in information on citizens' communications risk economic harm if their snitching were common knowledge.
Saturday, October 20, 2012ACLU fights the good fight to stop government surveillance of our citizens The ACLU says the FBI and NSA are abusing the warrantless dragnet surveillance. When the organization filed a FOIA request to see how it was actually being used, the FBI sent them some heavily redacted pages and explained that they could not yield more information about the surveillance since the business of turning in information on citizens' communications risk economic harm if their snitching were common knowledge.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
Occupy the Pipeline battles fracking threat in New York Occupy the Pipeline claims that the entities profiting from fracking are "the same old cast of characters," namely: Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America. On 15 October, Occupy the Pipeline will stage a protest event in solidarity with those arrested for protesting the tar sands pipeline (one notable arrestee being actress Daryl Hannah) and other pipeline activists.
Saturday, October 13, 2012Occupy the Pipeline battles fracking threat in New York Occupy the Pipeline claims that the entities profiting from fracking are "the same old cast of characters," namely: Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America. On 15 October, Occupy the Pipeline will stage a protest event in solidarity with those arrested for protesting the tar sands pipeline (one notable arrestee being actress Daryl Hannah) and other pipeline activists.
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
How the Mitt Romney video killed the American Dream Politicians do not even bother invoking the American Dream anymore. They know that we know that everything is rigged against it now, and that the language no longer persuades even the most naive and idealistic; the best you'll get from a politician is a pledge, playing to nostalgia, to restore its lost promise.
Saturday, September 22, 2012How the Mitt Romney video killed the American Dream Politicians do not even bother invoking the American Dream anymore. They know that we know that everything is rigged against it now, and that the language no longer persuades even the most naive and idealistic; the best you'll get from a politician is a pledge, playing to nostalgia, to restore its lost promise.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
The new totalitarianism of surveillance technology To acclimate their populations to this brave new world of invasive surveillance technologies, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and and his Canadian counterpart, Stephen Harper, both recently introduced "snoop" bills. Meanwhile, in the US -- "the land of the free" -- the onward march of the surveillers continues apace, without check or consultation.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012The new totalitarianism of surveillance technology To acclimate their populations to this brave new world of invasive surveillance technologies, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and and his Canadian counterpart, Stephen Harper, both recently introduced "snoop" bills. Meanwhile, in the US -- "the land of the free" -- the onward march of the surveillers continues apace, without check or consultation.
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Friday, August 10, 2012
America's Drought of Political Will on Climate Change America has led the world in climate change denial, a phenomenon noted with amazement by Europeans, not to mention thinking people around the world. Year after year, the US has failed to sign global treaties or curb emissions, even as our status as a source of a third of the world's carbon emissions goes unchanged.
Friday, August 10, 2012America's Drought of Political Will on Climate Change America has led the world in climate change denial, a phenomenon noted with amazement by Europeans, not to mention thinking people around the world. Year after year, the US has failed to sign global treaties or curb emissions, even as our status as a source of a third of the world's carbon emissions goes unchanged.
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Saturday, July 21, 2012
Why Reporters Are in the Firing Line It will take an alliance of investors, diplomats, media professionals and concerned citizens to exert real pressure and attach real consequences to the dire act of harming or suppressing a journalist. For the autocrats know that without a free press to report on their misdeeds, they have nothing to fear from the west's rhetorical invocations of democracy.
Saturday, July 21, 2012Why Reporters Are in the Firing Line It will take an alliance of investors, diplomats, media professionals and concerned citizens to exert real pressure and attach real consequences to the dire act of harming or suppressing a journalist. For the autocrats know that without a free press to report on their misdeeds, they have nothing to fear from the west's rhetorical invocations of democracy.
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Sunday, July 15, 2012
This Global Financial Fraud and its Gatekeepers Whatever motivated Geithner's silence, or that of the "government official" in the emails to Barclays, this much is obvious: the mainstream media need to drop their narratives of "Gosh, another oversight". The financial sector's corruption must be recognized as systemic.
Sunday, July 15, 2012This Global Financial Fraud and its Gatekeepers Whatever motivated Geithner's silence, or that of the "government official" in the emails to Barclays, this much is obvious: the mainstream media need to drop their narratives of "Gosh, another oversight". The financial sector's corruption must be recognized as systemic.
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Vagina: say it loud, Lisa Brown During a debate on anti-abortion legislation in the Michigan statehouse, the Democratic state senator said that she was flattered that there was such an interest in, as she put it, "my vagina," but that "no means no." She was barred from later debate because, she claimed, she dared to use that word.
Thursday, June 21, 2012Vagina: say it loud, Lisa Brown During a debate on anti-abortion legislation in the Michigan statehouse, the Democratic state senator said that she was flattered that there was such an interest in, as she put it, "my vagina," but that "no means no." She was barred from later debate because, she claimed, she dared to use that word.
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Friday, June 15, 2012
A Culture of Coverup: Rape in the Ranks of the US Military The numbers around the level of sex assault in the military are staggering. There is so much of this going on in the US military that women soldiers' advocacy groups have created a new term for it: military sexual trauma or MST. Last year, there were 3,158 cases of sexual assault reported within the military.
Friday, June 15, 2012A Culture of Coverup: Rape in the Ranks of the US Military The numbers around the level of sex assault in the military are staggering. There is so much of this going on in the US military that women soldiers' advocacy groups have created a new term for it: military sexual trauma or MST. Last year, there were 3,158 cases of sexual assault reported within the military.
