Bari Weiss hosts Ted Cruz at a real-time occasion on January 18, 2025, in Washington, DC.
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Bari Weiss, owner and editor of The Free Press , has actually commonly been profiled in the media, but usually in a shallow manner in which concentrates on her personality and conflicts with fellow reporters. She is presently on the cusp of world power, supposedly dealing with an offer to sell The Free Press and take a senior position at CBS. David Klion, Nation writer and frequent visitor on the podcast, has actually composed and remarkably trenchant analysis for The Guardian of Weiss’s politics and they way they straighten with the Trump management’s war on important voices. Klion writes:
Equally as with CBS a year ago, Weiss and the Free Press existed to assist traditionalists at elite establishments advance their internal lawn battles– and unlike a year earlier, those reactionaries can now count on the complete weight of Trump’s tyrannical management to back them up …
The pattern is clear: if you operate at a liberal institution and you want the Trump-controlled federal government to step in and discipline it, Bari Weiss is there to aid.
I was pleased to talk with David regarding Weiss’s job and how she has actually utilized her influence as an ideological enforcer, one that has the assistance of lots of affluent customers and powerful political allies.
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