fauci. then you want to be on the side of dr. king or george wallace? you want to be on the side of john lewis or bull connor? this is the moment to decide. senator cory booker on the president s rousing call to protect democracy, and academy award winning filmmaker adam mccay on the untrungsal truth in his new hit, don t look up. you know how many the world is ending meetings we had over the last two years. drought, famine, so boring. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. during this pandemic, dr. anthony fauci has become a strange point of fixation. even obsession on the right, and it s among those who see him as a kind of stand-in, a punching bag for the pointy headed public health officials who want to tell you how to live your life. even gone so far as to compare him to a dictator and a murderer. after two years of nonstop media adulation, tony fauci has morphed into a shorter version of benito mussolini. this is what
truly believe that they aredreno our children, they are the children of our country. i m not going to let parents come intf o schools and actuallymake take a child, make their own decision. i don n decit think parents shoh be telling schools what they should teach and no placate. ani is this fight more evident than in virginia, where parents have gounrginia wnts d the vessel tor their rights? governor glenn youngkivernor gn in july, youngkin department of education released new school guidelines s depar to keep parents in charge of their kids. chw, under these new rulesds, school personnel will have to call children by the pronouns listed in their officialy the school record, nt whatever they feel like identifying as that dat whatevy kids will also have to use the bathroom that corresponds with their, not their chosen gender. no theirw, these seem like comme sense guidelines to keep our children safe. rebut the state s largest school district doesn t think so. fairfat scho
our children. when you see our kids, and i truly believe they are the children of our country. i will not let parents come into schools and actually make their own decision. i don t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach. no place is this fight more evident than in virginia where parents have found the vessel to fight for their rights. governor glenn youngkin. in july youngkin s department of education released new school guidelines to keep parents in charge of their kids. under these new rules, school personnel will have to call children by the pronouns listed in their official school record. not whatever they feel like identifying as that day. kids will also have to use the bathroom that corresponds with their sex, not their chosen gender. no, these seem like common sense guidelines to keep our children safe. but the state s largest school district doesn t think so. fairfax county, virginia is defying youngkin s orders and parents are petrified
now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. you use it loudly. how difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away? now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. however, my father is a professor of history. so from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. so, yes. and you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff you ve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. and then the boys said, thank you, god, for not making me a woman. yes, and the girls say, thank you, god, for making me according to your will. yes, it s, in some ways, quite a misogynist religion. i think that is a very misogynist type of prayer. i think i became increasingly. well, i certainly increasingly had the
naomi alderman, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. i want to start at the beginning. you were raised in a very traditional, observant orthodoxjewish community in north london where, i think it s fair to say, women and girls were expected, by and large, to stay in the background. now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. you use it loudly. how difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away? now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. however, my father is a professor of history. so from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. so, yes. and you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff you ve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. and then the boys said, thank