The Progressive Commentary Hour – 03.01.22

Dr. Naomi Wolf is the CEO of the Daily Clout, a nonprofit that enables people to see, share and affect live legislative bills which otherwise would be largely non-transparent and passed in behind closed doors.  She is perhaps best known as a feminist leader, journalist and author writing about women’s rights, abortion, the Occupy Movement, the emerging totalitarianism in the US and more recently the Covid pandemic and creeping institutional tyranny.  Her articles have appeared in The Nation, the Guardian and Huffington Post.  Naomi authored the bestseller “The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot,” and her most recent book is “Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love,” which retells a history of state-sponsored censorship and violations of personal freedoms by recounting the story of John Addington Symonds, a 21 year old Oxford student his struggle for same-sex relationships in the mid-19th century.  She graduated from Yale University as a Rhodes Scholar to atttend Oxford University where she later received her doctorate in English Language and Literature. In the past she has taught at Barnard College, Stoney Brook and George Washington University. Naomi is the host of the weekly program Daily Clout, which can be heard every Saturday at 1 pm on the Progressive Radio Network. Her website is DailyClout.io