Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's END TIMES FASCISM (Toronto launch)
About this Event
Join us for an unforgettable evening with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor for the launch of their new book End Times Fascism: And the Fight For the Living World, featuring a conversation with Nahlah Ayed.
The evening’s events will be recorded for broadcast on CBC Radio’s program, IDEAS.
Doors open at 6pm, event begins at 7:00pm. Tickets are general admission seating.
Tickets $15 general admission, or $50 Book and Ticket
The event will feature a conversation and book signing.
Presigned copies of the book will be available for the book/ticket combo and for purchase at the event.
About the book:
A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right―and a recipe for how to fight them.
The planet burns and shared reality melts, a new iteration of the far right is on the march. How can we understand this dangerous new development, and what resources can we draw on to resist it? In their scathing assessment of the contemporary scene, the celebrated activists and authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor explore how the religious fundamentalists, Silicon Valley technologists, and ethno-nationalists who make up this apocalyptic alliance share more than one might think: they are united in their belief that some kind of cleansing cataclysm is coming, whether through the manifestation of messianic prophecy, the rampages of a resource- and job-consuming artificial intelligence, or the purported existential threat of immigration and cultural replacement. Rather than avoiding this conflagration, they welcome it, convinced they will be among the saved on the other side.
End Times Fascism is the ideology of the actors who strive to make the world unlivable and then seek to protect themselves from the fallout—whether by repairing to luxurious private islands, rocketing off to Mars, or bunkering the nation to keep their enemies at bay. The new survivalists have accumulated power, but they are far from impregnable. As Klein and Taylor show via original reporting and analysis, their many internal conflicts and contradictions and their nihilistic inability to envision a shared future, even for their ostensible allies, leaves them vulnerable to a new kind of “pro-life” politics—rooted in reverence for our shared existence and regard for the earth we inhabit and must protect.
About the authors:
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, and the bestselling author of Doppelganger, No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, and other classic books, which have been translated into thirty-five languages. She is an associate professor of geography and codirector of the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia, and she writes a regular column for The Guardian. Doppelganger was the winner of the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction and was named one of the ten best books of the year by New York magazine, Slate, and Time.
Astra Taylor is an award-winning writer, activist, and documentarian, and a cofounder of the Debt Collective. She is the author of The People’s Platform, which won the American Book Award; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone; and The Age of Insecurity. Taylor regularly writes for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times. Taylor toured with the band Neutral Milk Hotel and was the 2023 CBC Massey Lecturer.
About the host:
Nahlah Ayed is the host of the nightly CBC Radio program IDEAS. A veteran of foreign reportage, she's spent nearly a decade covering major world events from London, and another decade covering upheaval across the Middle East. Ayed was previously a parliamentary reporter for The Canadian Press. She has received several awards for her journalism, including the 2025 Edward. R. Murrow Award.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 19.50 to CAD 61.57
