Bari Weiss

Journalist & Founder, Substack Newsletter · 1 appearance on the record.

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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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Assertion Not checkable as stated

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…”

Bari Weiss Jun 29, 2021 ▶ 5:32 Bari Weiss: Defending Western Civilization and Building New Institutions · Joe Lonsdale

Opinion

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…”

Bari Weiss Jun 29, 2021 ▶ 6:12 Bari Weiss: Defending Western Civilization and Building New Institutions · Joe Lonsdale

Opinion

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.”

Bari Weiss Jun 29, 2021 ▶ 7:32 Bari Weiss: Defending Western Civilization and Building New Institutions · Joe Lonsdale

Insight

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…”

Bari Weiss Jun 29, 2021 ▶ 26:13 Bari Weiss: Defending Western Civilization and Building New Institutions · Joe Lonsdale

Opinion

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.”

Bari Weiss Jun 29, 2021 ▶ 9:00 Bari Weiss: Defending Western Civilization and Building New Institutions · Joe Lonsdale

Opinion

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, …”

Bari Weiss Jun 29, 2021 ▶ 1:04 Bari Weiss: Defending Western Civilization and Building New Institutions · Joe Lonsdale

Prediction Not checkable as stated

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”

Bari Weiss Jun 29, 2021 ▶ 18:02 Bari Weiss: Defending Western Civilization and Building New Institutions · Joe Lonsdale

Insight

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.”

Bari Weiss Jun 29, 2021 ▶ 29:36 Bari Weiss: Defending Western Civilization and Building New Institutions · Joe Lonsdale

Disclosure

Weiss: Plans to expand her Substack into a larger media company

“It's starting small with the newsletter, but I want to build it into a much bigger company.”

Bari Weiss Jun 29, 2021 ▶ 15:04 Bari Weiss: Defending Western Civilization and Building New Institutions · Joe Lonsdale

The other half of the tape: Bari Weiss's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 20 times in 8 episodes on American Optimist. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Joe Lonsdale 16 Thomas Chatterton Williams 2 Eboo Patel 2