Naomi Klein on the rise of misinformation and conspiracy influencers

Rowan Hooper: Your latest book is Doppelganger: A trip into the mirror world. What is this world?

Naomi Klein: The mirror world is the term I use to describe the land of conspiracies, and the alt-right, and the wellness right. It’s sometimes described as a diagonal political alliance between the new-age left and the conservative right that really consolidated in the covid years.

My book starts from the little detail that I have a doppelgänger, somebody who I have been confused and conflated with for over a decade now: another non-fiction writer named Naomi, Naomi Wolf, a prominent liberal…