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Bari Weiss
April 16, 2024
Ana Marie Cox
My Night Among Bari Weiss’s Free Speech Warriors
At The Free Press’s Texas-size immigration debate, nothing was at stake and everybody won.
February 16, 2024
Morgan O'Hanlon
Austin’s Anti-Woke University Is Living in Dreamland
As the first prospective students check out the University of Austin, big questions remain about whether the school will truly live up to its hype.
August 16, 2022
Aaron R. Hanlon
Cancel Culture Did Not Stab Salman Rushdie
Bari Weiss and other self-anointed defenders of free speech used the author’s stabbing to accuse the left of rhetorical excess—and ignored the very relevant scourge of book-banning by the American right.
December 6, 2021
Michael Tomasky
The Right Wants to Freedom Us to Death
Conservatives in the pandemic era have revealed that their bizarre concept of liberty is incompatible with human life.
November 11, 2021
Aaron R. Hanlon
Have the Founders of the University of Austin Been in a Classroom Lately?
Niall Ferguson, Bari Weiss, and others are creating a new university as an antidote to campus illiberalism. It’s a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
November 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
Do We Really Need an Anti-Woke University?
The new University of Austin seeks to be higher education’s premier institution of monetizing moral panics.
March 4, 2021
Alex Shephard
Dr. Seuss! Mr. Potato Head! Why the Culture Wars Have Never Been Dumber
Donald Trump has left a void in the discourse that is being filled with vapid nonsense.
February 9, 2021
Alex Shephard
Can We Stop Obsessing Over Every Personnel Decision Made by
The New York Times
?
Using isolated H.R. moves at the paper of record, such as the recent departure of Donald McNeil, as parables for an entire industry has its limits.
October 30, 2020
Jacob Silverman
Glenn Greenwald Throws a Fit
In his spectacular departure from The Intercept, he previewed a new media venture that seems destined to showcase the most insufferable people in American media.
July 15, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Self-Cancellation of Bari Weiss
Like much of her writing, the former New York Times editor’s resignation letter is long on accusation and thin on evidence.
July 6, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism
The critics of progressive identity politics have got it all wrong: They’re the illiberal ones.
June 10, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Real Snowflakes on the Op-Ed Page
Why are critics of cancel culture so scared of criticism?
April 3, 2020
Jacob Bacharach
Watching
South Park
at the End of the World
The soul of conservative America just might be found in a cartoon about a gang of vulgar little boys.
October 21, 2019
Magazine
Nathaniel Friedman
Moments Without Truth
Making sense of online discourse in the age of Trump
February 23, 2018
Jeet Heer
The American Right’s Deep Ties to Reactionary Europe
Why some U.S. conservatives are praising far-right extremists Marion Maréchal-Le Pen and Nigel Farage this week
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