Reporting From the Frontlines of the Culture Wars

Published: May 14, 2024, 7 a.m.

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As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends\\u2014until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people. When her colleagues suggested that asking such questions meant she was \\u201con the wrong side of history,\\u201d Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger\\u2014and funnier\\u2014than she expected.

In Morning After the Revolution, Bowles gives readers a front-row seat to the absurd drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of attending a multiday course on \\u201cThe Toxic Trends of Whiteness,\\u201d following the social justice activists who run \\u201cAbolitionist Entertainment LLC,\\u201d and trying to please the New York Times\\u2019s \\u201cdisinformation czar,\\u201d she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of a movement that went from a sideshow to the very center of American life.

Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber. This is an unmissable debut by one of America\\u2019s sharpest journalists.

Nellie Bowles is a writer living in Los Angeles. Previously, she was a correspondent at The New York Times where, as part of a team, she won the Gerald Loeb Award in Investigations and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award. Now she is working with her wife, Bari Weiss, to build The Free Press, a new media company, where she also writes the weekly TGIF column which is released every Friday, thank God\\u2026or whoever.

Shermer and Bowles discuss: what it\\u2019s like to work at The New York Times \\u2022 what it\\u2019s like to found a new media company \\u2022 same-sex marriage \\u2022 Liberalism vs. Progressivism \\u2022 the Black Lives Matter, #metoo, and transgender movements \\u2022 Patrisse Khan-Cullors \\u2022 White privilege \\u2022 somatic abolitionism \\u2022 LGBTQ \\u2022 IDAHOBIT \\u2022 BBIPOC \\u2022 CHAZ \\u2022 homelessness \\u2022 anti-racism \\u2022 cancel culture \\u2022 defund the police \\u2022 protests.

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