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NELLIE BOWLES: HOW THE LOCKDOWNS DROVE US CRAZY


THE FORMER NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER EXPLORES THE COLLECTIVE MADNESS THAT WASHED
OVER US IN 2020, TRACING THE PATH FROM #METOO TO “INTIFADA REVOLUTION!”

Nick Gillespie | 5.22.2024 1:20 PM

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Today's guest is Nellie Bowles, a co-founder of the immensely popular
Substack publication The Free Press, where she writes TGIF, a weekly news
roundup that has earned a fanatical following. She's also the author of the new
book Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History, a
deeply reported account of how America responded to COVID lockdowns and racial
unrest in 2020 and 2021 and her tumultuous tenure at The New York Times.

This interview was recorded at a live event in New York City.

00:00—The Morning After The Revolution

2:30— First sparks of the revolution

5:30— the working class victims of The Reckoning

9:37— BLM's property empire

11:16— Bowles' New York Times dispatch from CHAZ

13:40— Black and Asian White Supremacists

15:55— White women's tears & DEI trainings

20:25— Dismantle capitalism, but not too urgently!

24:10— The Progressive Stack 26:01- Academic "Pretendians"

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