Bari Weiss
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210 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 Jan
Bari Weiss’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Does it speak to something more deep and why do you oppose it?
Unlike obviously here in the States, the UK doesn't have a First Amendment. There's no guarantee to free speech enshrined in the Constitution. Is there a way to fix that if you're prime minister? Is there a way to pass some kind of free speech law?
You're here in America, I think, six weeks after a huge, huge election that many people, I think, feel marks. You know, some people have called it the end of the woke revolution, the beginning of the counterculture revolution. Neil Ferguson has called it just the vibe shift. What's your sense? You know, you're coming off the train having had dinner last night, I think, last night with J.D. Vance.
Yes, yes. Tell us about what you're hearing and seeing and what this trip's been like for you. Sure.
Claim your Gen X status because as an elder millennial, it's like the most shameful generation to be a part of.
How did you guys first meet?
There has been – and we're living through – like I don't think we know exactly what new conservatism or certainly the Republican Party looks like. When I hear you talk about free markets, about free speech, I hear a message that's pretty old school.
Pretty like conservative, classical liberal, the kind of things that I grew up thinking a conservative would sound like. The shift, I would say, is marked, at least in this country, in two big places. One is an embrace of protectionism economically and certainly Trump's embrace of tariffs. He says it's the most beautiful word in the English language. Yeah.
And then also of isolationism, of a turn against a kind of muscular foreign policy that I think the U.S. certainly, you know, certainly the Republican Party, for my entire adult life, I'm 40, had been known for. Where do you fall on those two issues? And do you see a distinction between yourself and sort of where the right is going here in America?
So it's like, we'll trade with China and democracy will come to China.
Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said that Britain was Greece to America's Rome, the wise old empire helping to guide the brash young superpower. What do you see as Britain's primary role in the world today, and especially vis-a-vis the US?
One of the things that's been really interesting for people to watch over the past six weeks in this country is the way that people who we do not think of as being D.C. swamp creatures, as being government bureaucrats, people like Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk are sort of heading into Washington. They're doing this, you know, government efficiency thing. They're calling it Doge.
People are really excited to see what that might bring. What do you think of that? Is there a thought that you maybe could do something similar in the U.K.? And have you met Elon Musk?
One last question and then we'll do a quick lightning round. We've talked about a lot of crises that the West is facing and maybe the one that's sort of like underlying all of it is the crisis of meaning, right? This sense that, you know, what is life about?
The reason it comes to mind is because if your life is about compliance and bureaucracy and you're so far away from making something that's actually productive and actually matters, it's very hard to have a meaningful life.
How do you think about that problem? How do you think about the crisis of meaning that seems to be crippling the West? We have this strange paradox where, in a certain sense, we have every luxury that's imaginable. We live lives that our ancestors, even our grandparents, could never have imagined. We have so many true luxuries and privileges in the real sense of the word.
And yet people seem to be in a kind of malaise.
Wow, that's very self-aware.
Kemi, you ready for a lightning round?
How do you take your tea?
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