Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Naomi Wolf" in English language version.
That came to mind when I read the Washington Post's Outlook section this weekend, and looked over Naomi Wolf's piece about how young people don't understand capital-D Democracy. According to a recent study by the National Center for Education Statistics, only 47 percent of high school seniors have mastered a minimum level of U.S. history and civics, while only 14 percent performed at or above the 'proficient' level.
The frenzy about Naomi Wolf began in the pages of Time. On Sunday morning, October 31, just four days after the jeering of Gore, the magazine released a news report headlined, 'GORE'S SECRET GURU.' (The report appeared in Time's new edition, dated November 8.) In the piece, Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty reported an underwhelming fact: Author Naomi Wolf, the 'secret guru' in question, was advising the Gore campaign-had been doing so since January. Within days, this underwhelming piece of news had turned into a major press frenzy. For the next month, Gore and Wolf would be relentlessly trashed, in ways which were often remarkably ugly and often profoundly inane.
Naomi is so enmeshed with conspiracy theories that she even questions whether ISIS is a true threat.
Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them without trial, signed legislation that gave torture impunity, and spied on their citizens, just as Obama has. It isn't a question of what has been done that Hitler did. It's what does every dictator do, on the left or the right, that is being done here and now. The real fight isn't left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.
for his exceptional contributions to HIV research, being the architect of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, heading NIAID, fighting for the recognition of novel approaches such as mRNA vaccines and 'courageously defending science in the face of uninformed opposition during the challenging Covid-19 crisis.'
Time was elliptical about Wolf's own contribution to the story; the magazine said only that she had declined to talk about her role 'for the record.'
When she went on BBC radio on Thursday, Wolf, the author of Vagina and the forthcoming Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love, probably expected to discuss the historical revelations she'd uncovered her book. But during the interview, broadcaster Matthew Sweet read to Wolf the definition of 'death recorded,' a 19th-century English legal term. 'Death recorded' means that a convict was pardoned for his crimes rather than given the death sentence. Wolf thought the term meant execution.
It's unclear whether Outrages will also be recalled in Britain, where it was released in May by the publisher Virago.
'It's been painful for me to watch the people of Australia being lied to over and over and tortured there psychologically.' Ms Wolf said Australia's democracy has been 'put on hold' for 'illegal reasons'. 'Nowhere does it say in a sound and healthy society that you get to suspend civil liberties if there's a disease around. That is not how it works in a democracy'.
Her 2001 book about motherhood, Misconceptions, in which she compared herself on the operating table getting a caesarian to Jesus on the crucifix, did not connect in the same way as her first book.[permanent dead link]
Wolf's path from respectability to conspiracy theory isn't uncommon.
I want to summarize why I believe we are facing a real crisis. My reading showed me that there are 10 key steps that would-be despots always take when they are seeking to close down an open society or to crush a democracy movement, and we are seeing each of those in the US today.
Naomi is so enmeshed with conspiracy theories that she even questions whether ISIS is a true threat.
The frenzy about Naomi Wolf began in the pages of Time. On Sunday morning, October 31, just four days after the jeering of Gore, the magazine released a news report headlined, 'GORE'S SECRET GURU.' (The report appeared in Time's new edition, dated November 8.) In the piece, Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty reported an underwhelming fact: Author Naomi Wolf, the 'secret guru' in question, was advising the Gore campaign-had been doing so since January. Within days, this underwhelming piece of news had turned into a major press frenzy. For the next month, Gore and Wolf would be relentlessly trashed, in ways which were often remarkably ugly and often profoundly inane.
Time was elliptical about Wolf's own contribution to the story; the magazine said only that she had declined to talk about her role 'for the record.'
I want to summarize why I believe we are facing a real crisis. My reading showed me that there are 10 key steps that would-be despots always take when they are seeking to close down an open society or to crush a democracy movement, and we are seeing each of those in the US today.
Wolf's path from respectability to conspiracy theory isn't uncommon.
Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them without trial, signed legislation that gave torture impunity, and spied on their citizens, just as Obama has. It isn't a question of what has been done that Hitler did. It's what does every dictator do, on the left or the right, that is being done here and now. The real fight isn't left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.
That came to mind when I read the Washington Post's Outlook section this weekend, and looked over Naomi Wolf's piece about how young people don't understand capital-D Democracy. According to a recent study by the National Center for Education Statistics, only 47 percent of high school seniors have mastered a minimum level of U.S. history and civics, while only 14 percent performed at or above the 'proficient' level.
It's unclear whether Outrages will also be recalled in Britain, where it was released in May by the publisher Virago.
When she went on BBC radio on Thursday, Wolf, the author of Vagina and the forthcoming Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love, probably expected to discuss the historical revelations she'd uncovered her book. But during the interview, broadcaster Matthew Sweet read to Wolf the definition of 'death recorded,' a 19th-century English legal term. 'Death recorded' means that a convict was pardoned for his crimes rather than given the death sentence. Wolf thought the term meant execution.
'It's been painful for me to watch the people of Australia being lied to over and over and tortured there psychologically.' Ms Wolf said Australia's democracy has been 'put on hold' for 'illegal reasons'. 'Nowhere does it say in a sound and healthy society that you get to suspend civil liberties if there's a disease around. That is not how it works in a democracy'.
for his exceptional contributions to HIV research, being the architect of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, heading NIAID, fighting for the recognition of novel approaches such as mRNA vaccines and 'courageously defending science in the face of uninformed opposition during the challenging Covid-19 crisis.'
