Naomi Klein Warns of End Times Fascism on the Far Right
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What happened
Authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor published the book End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on September 15 through Farrar, Straus and Giroux. They also released an adapted essay in The Guardian and a companion video made with filmmakers Emma Dessau, Austin Bedell and P Nick Curran. The New York Times and The Guardian reported the book’s argument that a coalition of political and technology figures the authors call “end times fascists” is prepared to accept ecological collapse while planning private exits from a shared Earth. Klein is a Guardian U.S. columnist and a professor of climate justice at the University of British Columbia; Taylor is a writer, organizer and co-founder of the Debt Collective.
BLINDSPOT.
Only left-leaning outlets are covering this story
— the other side's media is silent.
Omitted — what each side leaves out
Unpacked
Right-leaning outlets have not covered this as of publication, so a reader there never meets Klein and Taylor's claim that tech oligarchs and the far right form a single project of planetary abandonment. Left-leaning coverage reports a new book arguing that "end times fascists" are fine with Earth's demise and would rather bunker, flee to space, or merge with machines than share a livable planet. Coverage depth splits between a long Guardian essay and a one-sentence note in the New York Times.
Left-leaning outlets also split on emphasis. Venice protests against a Bezos wedding and Zohran Mamdani as the antifascist counter-model open the Guardian essay, and the Times mentions neither.
Have Bezos, Musk, or Thiel said they are fine with Earth's demise?
Bottom line
A conservative-media reader would miss entirely that the Guardian ran Klein and Taylor grouping Bezos and Thiel as end times fascists, a charge the Times reduced to one line.
The receipts — 5 facts one side's coverage lacks
- Klein and Taylor argue that a powerful coalition of end times fascists is just fine with the earth's demise
- Bezos planned to spend an estimated $50m on a Venetian wedding
- Bezos claims Blue Origin will allow a trillion people to spread across the solar system
- Peter Thiel once named cyberspace, outerspace and seasteading as his three best ideas for true freedom
- Over the last decade more than 1 million Italian citizens have moved abroad
The Left View
The New York Times and The Guardian present the book as a warning that a powerful far-right and tech-oligarch coalition is reconciled to the planet’s demise and intends that only a chosen few be saved. Coverage highlights Klein and Taylor’s examples, including Jeff Bezos’s space and wedding plans, Elon Musk’s and Peter Thiel’s exit and growth rhetoric, data-center expansion, and figures such as Donald Trump, JD Vance and Stephen Miller. The Guardian essay and video frame protests in Venice, neighbor-based resistance, and Zohran Mamdani’s New York mayoral politics as the counter-project: stay on Earth, tax the rich, and build inclusive, place-based politics against bunkers, space colonization and machine-merger fantasies. The outlets treat the “end times fascism” label as the authors’ thesis linking climate crisis, billionaire wealth and authoritarian politics.
Our Take (balanced)
As news, this is thin: it is a book launch and interpretive essay, not a documented event, leak or official action. Named public figures, published quotes and some checkable episodes (Blue Origin flights, Bezos’s Venice wedding plans, public remarks by Musk and Thiel) are established; the claim of an “unholy alliance” of “end times fascists” plotting escape while sacrificing the living world is the authors’ political argument, not a corroborated conspiracy with records or on-the-record admissions of that program. No right-leaning outlet has reported this. Watch for the book’s cited sources, independent reviews, and any on-the-record responses from the people named.
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