"Lets Move the Center"

A nice piece on Naomi Klein, author of the Shock Doctrine, the article goes into her political upbringing and her hopes for the Left's future.

Outside Agitator
by Larissa MacFarquhar for The New Yorker

Klein argues that the only circumstance in which a population would accept Friedman-style reforms is when it is in a state of shock, following a crisis of some sort—a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, a war. A person in shock regresses to a childlike state in which he longs for a parental figure to take control; similarly, a population in a state of shock will hand exceptional powers to its leaders, permitting them to destroy the regulatory functions of government.