(Text changed to ALL CAPS by me in the quotation above, from Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a new Dark Age, p. 20)

Naomi Wolf is an old-school Classical Liberal and feminist. For decades she had been a celebrated member of what might be called the Left-Wing Intellectual class; she was invited to all the right parties, was friends with the wealthy and influential; her best-selling books were praised by the intelligencia and leftist politicians.

Then came COVID-19, the COVID "vaccines", and the sudden tyranny they were used to justify.

The establishment, meaning for the most part the Left, the intellectual class, Big Business, the Deep State, and the major media, all fell in line, pushing or at least meekly accepting harmful and useless lockdowns, social distancing, masking, and near-forced injections of an experimental pseudo-vaccine. Huge numbers of small businesses were shut down "to protect against viral transmission" while huge corporate locations were allowed to operate, as if The Dread Virus somehow knew to leave potential victims alone in Target or Walmart.

Nearly ALL of the people Ms. Wolf had thought were friends joined the fascist mob, agitating and virtue-signaling for Unfreedom, and when she publicly questioned the safety of the COVID injections and wrote about harm to women's health those injections were causing, she was summarily canceled, not only by social and other media but by her former friends as well.

Naomi Wolf is among the very few well-known liberals of the pre-COVID world who clearly sees exactly what happened and speaks about it truthfully, eruditely, and without pulling punches in the least. Her writing is insightful and strongly affecting. I can only read a chapter or two at a time -- read some, spend time thinking about and absorbing the emotional punch of what I've read, then come back later for more.

Facing the Beast is a collection of her writings about the Pandemic and its aftermath, both society-wide and in her life personally -- including her journey to a rural, conservative lifestyle and POV. I highly recommend it.