Morning After the Revolution

Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

Narrated by: Nellie Bowles

Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their minds—and how she almost did, too.

As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends—until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people. When her colleagues suggested that asking such questions meant she was “on the wrong side of history,” Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger—and funnier—than she expected.

In Morning After the Revolution, Bowles gives listeners a front-row seat to the absurd drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of attending a multiday course on “The Toxic Trends of Whiteness,” following the social justice activists who run “Abolitionist Entertainment LLC,” and trying to please the New York Times’s “disinformation czar,” she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of a movement that went from a sideshow to the very center of American life.

Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber. This is an unmissable debut by one of America’s sharpest journalists.

©2023 Nellie Bowles (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Brilliant book!

This book is well written and puts a complex political movement into perspective without editorializing or passing judgement.

Must read

Great breakdown of a spiraling movement. Relatable for anyone that stood by the left for most of their life and finally took a closer look recently.

Excellent!

Well written, well read! Great book detailing an experience of shunning and cancellation at the NYT

A great listen

A reminder of the time I and my peers lost our minds. A necessary reminder of recent events (especially the ones I wish to forget).

Brilliant skewering of both sides of the culture war over the past 8 years

Loved hearing this from the author. Alternately serious and hilarious, Nellie dishes it up to both sides but is especially strong on the failings of the Left that have left so many of us feeling politically homeless, caught between anti-abortion right wingers who acknowledge the importance of biological sex and the woke gender ideologues who deny it. As someone with “lived experience” of the institutional acid that is Tema Okun’s white supremacy culture list, I particularly appreciated Nellie’s story of how it came to be gospel in institutions large and small. This is just one of many strands covered by Dispatches. Enjoy!

Great book for Normies!

First off, I always like books that are read by the author. They know exactly what they want to emphasize, etc. Also, as a subscriber to The Free Press I truly appreciate the non-partisan political view that's equally critical of the extremes. Well done.

A fascinating read by an author who ultimately called bs on something she had been a part of

People who are actually open and honest enough to change their minds are the most fascinating people in the world to me. Nellie Bowles is such a person as she describes how and when she began to see things differently. It's a cautionary tale of how far off track things can become.

oh yeah

I had forgotten the extent of the madness.

Bowles is interesting and entertaining.

I want to bring her a plate of pancakes

great bok

liked the narration and the prespective represented in the book. truly eye opening and well-written

Finally….

This book set my mind at ease that finally we will reset and pull back from this era of hyper left insanity. This book was well written, factual and clear. Recommending to all my liberal friends-and conservative. The book’s author comes from a place I feel I have sat and felt very alone.