Award-winning journalist, columnist and author Naomi Klein will speak at UW-Madison’s third Distinguished Lecture Series installment Tuesday.
Klein will present her number one international bestseller “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” a nonfiction book that has appeared on multiple book lists and has been dubbed a “movement bible” by The New York Times, according to a university release.
“The Shock Doctrine” has been published in 30 languages and has over a million copies in print.
An influential voice in today’s societal issues, Klein is presently working on a book and film about the current climate crisis and the possible economic and political changes associated with it, according to the release.
The lecture will be held in Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
