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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: 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: 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: 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”