We’re All Living in the ‘Mirror World’ Now

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The author Naomi Klein is probably best known for scathing critiques of corporate power in books like No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, and This Changes Everything. But in 2023, she published a pretty different kind of book. During the pandemic, Klein noticed how much she was being confused online with a different Naomi. Naomi Wolfe, who in the 90s was known as a feminist author and journalist and Al Gore advisor, but who had in the Covid era become one of the most prominent right-wing conspiracists. That experience and the interest in Wolf that it created for Klein became the foundation of Doppelganger, a trip into the mirror world.

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