Bari Weiss
Journalist & Founder, Substack Newsletter · Founder, The Free Press · Journalist & Author. On 3 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Bari Weiss is a writer and thinker who launched her own Substack newsletter to champion free speech and diverse viewpoints. She previously worked at the New York Times.
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3appearances
20statements
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82said about them ↓ Everything Bari Weiss said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Weiss: Medical institutions push race-based care and teenage gender transitions
“In many hospitals and medical schools across the country, people were being told to do something very different, to mete out care based on race, to, you know, to shuffle young teenage girls especially toward irreversible Changes in their bodies and things of t…”
Weiss: NYT profile of Sam Bankman-Fried omitted political donations and fraud comparisons
“You have this 2000 word profile in the New York Times that doesn't mention the four hundred million dollars that he donated to Democratic candidates, that doesn't mention, you know, Madoff, Enron, like the kind of things that he's being compared to.”
Weiss: Corporate leaders stay silent on ideology because they fear employees
“I was at an extremely interesting dinner the other night with the heads of a bunch of different companies and they all reported back the same thing. In private, they were saying, we're alarmed about what's happening. We're alarmed about the spread of this ideo…”
Weiss: Younger NYT staff reject objectivity in favor of moral clarity
“Inside, like, let me just give you the example of the New York times inside the New York times, the vast majority of people, especially let's say the older generation, 40 and up believed in the old school values of journalism, you know, striving for objectivit…”
Weiss: Superficial racial diversity from elite schools fails to create ideological diversity
“If you really want to strive for diversity in the New York Times, I'm sorry, but getting people of different skin colors who all went to the same four boarding schools and universities is not genuine. They all think the same thing.”
Weiss: Universities are the nucleation point for institutional decay
“If you're wondering why the museums you love and the publishing houses you love and the newspapers used to trust and, you know, the Hollywood, all of these things, if you want to understand why they are hollowed out, why they are no longer what they used to be…”
Weiss: Mainstream journalists now see their job as guiding political views
“The job description as they see it is to usher you toward the correct political position.”
Weiss: Common Sense rejects applicants hesitating to work across political lines
“Explicitly hiring people. That are different from me, that have different views, and that the first question I ask in every single interview is, are you comfortable working in an organization with people that vote differently from you? And if the answer is in …”
Weiss: Believing America is evil is a luxury belief of the privileged
“To believe that America is a great evil, to believe that the West is not exceptional in its values, even with all of our flaws, is a luxury belief.”
Weiss: The Free Press targets the broad "self-silencing majority"
“There are three sides that I see that are emerging, and I think the free press is trying to position itself in what I believe is the broad self-silencing Majority piece of the pie, which is to say there's a woke left, there's increasingly a woke right, and the…”
Weiss: 95% to 98% of New York Times readers are liberal
“Something like 95 to 98% of readers at the New York Times, and I'm choosing that only because it's the experience I know most intimately, regard themselves as liberals or progressives.”
Weiss: Building competing institutions is the only way to reform legacy media
“I've become someone who believes that the way to change those institutions Is not to give money to those places, or join the board of them, or delude yourself with the idea that you can transform them from within. It's to build new things, and in building new …”
Weiss: Alternative media hunger driven by falling trust in legacy outlets
“But I think there's a growing audience of people who used to read the New York Times every morning or listen to NPR in their car, and now they're saying, I don't really trust what I'm hearing in those places. Where can I go? And that's frankly where, where com…”
Weiss: Citizen journalism cannot substitute for traditional newsroom verification
“On the other hand, you know, that is not a substitute for the kind of work that is being done every day at places like Axios. Like, you do need the fact check. You do need, you know, two sources, three sources, you know,”
Weiss: Michael Shellenberger is outperforming mainstream media on San Francisco reporting
“If you look at what Michael Schellenberger is doing on the issues of crime, public policy, and homelessness in the Bay Area and in San Francisco specifically, he's eating the mainstream press's lunch.”
Weiss: Current Era Will Be Remembered as a Soft Cultural Revolution
“I think what we are living through will be remembered ultimately by historians as a kind of cultural revolution. It's a soft culture revolution. It's obviously not coming from some dictator from the top. It's coming from a kind of hive mind that is, you know, …”
Weiss: "The Revolt of the Public" is the most important recent book
“Martin Goury has written about this absolutely brilliantly in his book, The Revolt of the Public, probably the most important book written in the last 25 years.”
Weiss: Society will focus on building new institutions over the next 50 years
“In a lot of cases, I think we're going to be looking over the next 50 or so years at building new things”
Weiss: Outside competition strengthens internal dissent within legacy institutions
“When there is another option out there, when there's competition, it actually strengthens the voices of dissent inside the institutions.”
The other half of the tape: Bari Weiss's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 77 times in 37 episodes across the shows. 5 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Jason Calacanis 26Joe Lonsdale 17David Sacks 8Chamath Palihapitiya 6Erik Torenberg 5Thomas Chatterton Williams 2Eboo Patel 2Coleman Hughes 2
Statements about Bari Weiss, by other people (5)
Sacks: Twitter suppressed Libs of TikTok despite admitting no policy violation
“There are conversations in the Slack that Barry Weiss exposed where, for example, Libs of TikTok, they admit in the Slack that we can't suppress Libs of TikTok based on our hate policy. Libs of TikTok hasn't violated it. We're going to suppress that account an…”
Balaji Srinivasan: The New York Times lost all influence over the center
“Much of what the NYT and what these guys do, and they're so much weaker than they used to be. Like so, so, so much weaker. Thank God they've lost the center, right? They've lost much of, you know, what happened is they just piled up the subscriptions and they …”
Joe Lonsdale is founding a new university in Austin with Bari Weiss and Niall Ferguson
“My friends, Barry Weiss and Neil Ferguson and I along with a couple, a bunch of others, are starting a new university in Austin.”
Lonsdale: The Free Press is probably the biggest disruptive new media org
“Who started the Free Press, which is probably the biggest disruptive new media org.”
Every mention by year
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All-In 48
American Optimist 20
the a16z Podcast 9
2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 30 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
- This Idea is Destroying American Universities · Joe Lonsdale
- Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
- The One Thing AI Will Never Replace · Joe Lonsdale
- Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
- NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
- Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
- The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview
- Ep 77: Mike Solana on Exposing Corruption, Saving San Francisco, and Building a New Media Empire · Joe Lonsdale
- Thomas Laffont | All-In Summit 2024
- Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
- "Founder Mode," DOJ alleges Russian podcast op, Kamala flips proposals, Tech loses Section 230?
- Google fires protestors, NPR chaos, Humane's AI Pin, Startup tax crisis, sports betting scandal
- Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2022 20 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
- Don't Ban CRT; Win With Better Ideas. Thomas Chatterton Williams Talks Race & Liberalism · Joe Lonsdale
- E76.5: Food shortage, China's grand plan, inflation, French election plus an All-In Summit preview
- E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- E67: Revisiting Rogan, Canadian truckers' protest, fusion breakthrough, $MSFT's savvy move & more
- E91: SoftBank's $21B+ Vision Fund loss, signals of a bubble, macro picture, Trump raided by FBI
- How Psychedelic Medicine Could Transform Healthcare | Why Medical School Is Broken · Joe Lonsdale
- #AIS: Joe Lonsdale on the problem with higher education
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2020 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
- E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
- E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Bari's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| AMERICAN OPTIMISTLEDGER | Journalist & Founder, Substack Newsletter | 1 | 9 | — | full record on American Optimist → |
| ALL-INLEDGER | Founder, The Free Press | 1 | 6 | 0% 0/1 | full record on All-In → |
| a16zLEDGER | Journalist & Author | 1 | 5 | 0% 0/1 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |