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

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.

oh yeah

I had forgotten the extent of the madness.

Bowles is interesting and entertaining.

I want to bring her a plate of pancakes

Excellent!

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

Brilliant. Honest. Painful.

This book needs to be required reading / listening for anyone working in news media right now and in the future. I work at another national news organization and we are STILL making some of the mistakes when taking about so many of the issues that Nellie addresses head on and explains with facts. We have to do better. Hopefully we can get our industry back on track… and stop further perpetuating the hateful divide in our country. Bravo, Nellie!

Honesty and clarity. Learned a lot that I was unaware of. Hopefully, this book will be read/listened to and considered by many.

Smart and funny

Details of the stories- I’ve lived through much of this insanity myself. Nellie goes to the places I feared to tread.

Insightful

Amazing perspective on the last 5 years of society. The only thing missing is a healthy dose of #MeToo coverage.

Stories from an apostate

This is an excellent account of the fall of a progressive true-believer. Important stories of our time, how the progressive left lost its way, yet convinced they are righteous…. Just like the zealots on the right who they believe themselves to be superior and more enlightened. This account is ultimately about becoming intellectually mature and embracing the reality of our world, without becoming bitter.

Plot twist

Some have forgotten this over time, so for those in the back of the room, love conquers all.

Liberal are the New Moderates

NYT former journalist Nellie Bowles brings dry humor to an oftentimes maddening subject….anarchy in the name of liberal values. She has managed to explain what many of us longtime lefties have been seeing for years now….We can never be good enough. Or liberal enough to satisfy the “progressive” left. We didn’t so much leave the left as “the Left”, left us.