Thursday, January 29
Naomi Klein @ Loyola University (Chicago)
A veteran journalist for The New York Times, The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, and The Nation, Naomi Klein has long been a critic of globalization.
With The Shock Doctrine, her latest book and thesis, Klein takes aim at noted free-market advocate Milton Friedman, asserting that these policies have robbed citizens at the behest of corporations — and that many of them have been implemented during times of extreme national/international distress.
Here Klein speaks about the book in an open-to-the-public session ($1) that includes a brief film, a Q&A, and a book signing.
The Shock Doctrine also made our list of books to give for the 2008 holiday season.