End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World

A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right―and a recipe for how to fight them.

As the planet burns and shared reality melts, a new iteration of the far right is on the march. How can we understand this dangerous new development, and what resources can we draw on to resist it? In their scathing assessment of the contemporary scene, the celebrated activists and authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor explore how the religious fundamentalists, Silicon Valley technologists, and ethno-nationalists who make up this apocalyptic alliance share more than one might think: they are united in their belief that some kind of cleansing cataclysm is coming, whether through the manifestation of messianic prophecy, the rampages of a resource- and job-consuming artificial intelligence, or the purported existential threat of immigration and cultural replacement. Rather than avoiding this conflagration, they welcome it, convinced they will be among the saved on the other side.

“End Times Fascism” is the ideology of the actors who strive to make the world unlivable and then seek to protect themselves from the fallout―whether by repairing to luxurious private islands, rocketing off to Mars, or bunkering the nation to keep their enemies at bay. The new survivalists have accumulated power, but they are far from impregnable. As Klein and Taylor show via original reporting and analysis, their many internal conflicts and contradictions and their nihilistic inability to envision a shared future, even for their ostensible allies, leave them vulnerable to a new kind of “pro-life” politics―rooted in reverence for our shared existence and regard for the earth we inhabit and must protect.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and international and New York Times bestselling author of nine critically acclaimed books: How To Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Earth and Each Other (2021), On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (2019), No Is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (2017), This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014), The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and No Logo (2000). In 2018, she published The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes On the Disaster Capitalists (2018) reprinted from her feature article for The Intercept with all royalties donated to Puerto Rican organization juntegente.org. Her new book, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World will be published on September 12, 2023.

Naomi Klein is a columnist with The Guardian. She has also written regular columns for The Intercept (as Senior Contributing Writer), The Nation, and The Globe and Mail that were syndicated in major newspapers around the world by The New York Times Syndicate. She has been a contributing editor at Harper’s and Rolling Stone. She has reported from China for Rolling Stone, Standing Rock and Puerto Rico for The Intercept, Copenhagen (COP15) for The Nation, Buenos Aires for The Financial Times, and Iraq for Harper’s. Additionally, her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Globe and Mail, El Pais, L’Espresso, The New Statesman, Le Monde, among many other publications.

Naomi’s books have been published in over 35 languages. On Fire was a New York Times bestseller and was named a Best Climate Book by Fast Company magazine. No Is Not Enough was a New York Times bestseller and was nominated for the National Book Award. This Changes Everything won the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and was nominated for multiple other awards as well as appearing on the New York Times bestseller list and a New York Times Book Review ‘100 Notable Books of the Year.’ The Shock Doctrine was published worldwide in 2007 and translated into over 25 languages. It won the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing. It appeared on multiple ‘best of year’ lists including as a New York Times Critics’ Pick of the Year. Naomi Klein’s first book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies was translated into over 30 languages. The New York Times called it “a movement bible.” A tenth anniversary edition of No Logo was published worldwide in 2009. The Literary Review of Canada has named it one of the hundred most important Canadian books ever published. In 2016, The Guardian picked No Logo as one of the Top 100 Non Fiction books of all time. Time magazine also chose No Logo as one of the Top 100 Non-Fiction books published since 1923. A collection of her writing, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate was published in 2002.

She has received multiple honorary degrees and awards. In 2019 she was named one of the The Frederick Douglass 200, a project to honor the impact of 200 living individuals who best embody the work and spirit of Douglass. In 2014, the International Studies Association’s IPE Outstanding Activist-Scholar Award honoured her for her activism in alter-globalizations social movements and protests. Author of numerous books and articles, Naomi is one of the most important voices in the alter-globalizations movement.”

"Trenchant."
―Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times

"Smart and provocative . . . The greatest virtue of End Times Fascism, a dive into our current political miasma, is that its authors, the accomplished journalists and activists Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, do the work of synthesizing all of this and more with ambition and elegance, giving us a comprehensive interpretation of What It All Means, Why It’s Happening and How We Should Respond."
―Damon Linker, The New York Times

"This might be the most important book you read. Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor have managed to brilliantly organize this terrifying world into a clear, completely understandable vision of potential apocalypses while simultaneously showing us how to fight for the beauty and wonder of here, and for each other."
―V (formerly Eve Ensler)

“Penetrating and sobering, End Times Fascism is sure to cause a stir.”
―BookPage (starred review)

“Klein and Taylor cogently examine the way technocrats, survivalists, and religious purists have rejoiced in the paradigm shift from societal sustainability to utopian upheaval . . . While the message of impending doom pervades the narrative, the authors’ profoundly insightful analysis delineates concrete, achievable methods for navigating this daunting new territory.”
―Booklist (starred review)

“From two of the left’s sharpest thinkers, this inspired book maps the ideas common to three virulent strains of contemporary politics . . . Righteously alarmed, the authors have given us a new way to grasp some of our biggest problems. [End Times Fascism is] an astute, original-minded analysis of the apocalyptic thinking that links tech, politics, and religion.”
―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)