Klein and Taylor Take 'End Times Fascism' From Page to Video and Tour
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World goes on sale 15 September through Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The Guardian said on 13 September 2026 it was sharing a video about the thesis, the book's central argument, for the first time. The Guardian
The video and its makers
Klein and Taylor made the video with film-makers Emma Dessau, Austin Bedell and P Nick Curran. Klein is a Guardian US columnist and contributing writer. She is professor of climate justice and co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia. Taylor is a writer, organizer and documentary maker and a co-founder of the Debt Collective. The Guardian
Earlier work under the same idea
The video follows earlier Guardian work under the same thesis. Klein and Taylor wrote 'The rise of end times fascism,' published on 13 April 2025. The Guardian listed a Guardian Live event titled 'Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: How to resist end times fascism.' That listing was published on 3 June 2026.
What the book argues
The Guardian published "Naomi Klein: 'Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist'" on 12 September 2026. The opening scene of End Times Fascism features Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, according to that piece. The Guardian The New York Times Magazine published an interview with Klein and Taylor about End Times Fascism on 12 September 2026. In the book, Klein and Taylor argue that a powerful coalition of "end times fascists" is just fine with the Earth's demise. The New York Times Magazine
Publication and tour
Macmillan hosts an official book page for End Times Fascism and describes Klein and Taylor as award-winning authors. The publisher offers the book in Hardcover, e-Book, and Digital Audio formats. It states the book investigates apocalyptic thinking, or beliefs about the world ending, among Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists on the contemporary right. Macmillan Klein's site identifies End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World as her 10th book. Macmillan also lists a tour page titled 'Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: End Times Fascism' for discussion of the book.
The authors are holding discussion events for the book in Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, District of Columbia, Illinois, California, and Washington. They are scheduled to discuss End Times Fascism at a Chicago Humanities event on 18 September 2026 from 7:30 to 8:45 p.m.
The broader context here is the move from diagnosis to prescription. Klein and Taylor first laid out the thesis as journalists, then developed it at length in print, and are now translating it into video and live discussion. For readers who track climate politics and the far right, the sequence is familiar. A written argument sets out categories and evidence, like a map. Film compresses those categories into story. Live events test them against public questions.
Looking at what this means for reception of the book, the central claim to watch is indifference to habitability, or whether Earth stays livable. The argument is not only that segments of the contemporary right deny ecological breakdown, but that influential actors accept demise as compatible with their political and economic projects. If that framing is adopted widely, climate debate would shift away from persuasion over science and toward contestation over who gets protection in a destabilized world. The tour schedule and the interviews in the days before publication suggest the authors intend to press that point directly with audiences.
