Naomi Klein

Two things of interest from Naomi Klein's talk last night in Berkeley: 1) the Trump victory should not be seen as a shock but as a culmination and 2) the left still can't start anything on time, reassuring those of us in the audience who've lived long enough and survived the politically dreadful late 1960s/early 70s, when independent journalist I.F. Stone said of Abbie Hoffman that "he couldn't even organize a luncheon," that not all that much has changed.

Naomi Klein's a likeable crusading journalist, whose take on the corporatization of our social and political systems was novel ten years ago but now reads as slightly old news, at least to this reader. The most astonishing thing I heard her say last night is that her new book--No is Not Enough--is the first she's published with an independent publisher.