Honestly with Bari Weiss
Episodes
“The Fight Against Evil”: Three Reporters in Ukraine
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a month since Russia invaded Ukraine. About a fourth of Ukraine’s population has been displaced. Thousands, if not more, have died. And ...
Why No One Trusts Anything
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if I told you that all the brokenness in our society—from the increased rates in suicide and addiction to the decreased rates in marriage and s...
Things Worth Fighting For
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For the past three weeks, we have watched the people of Ukraine and their president breathe life into virtues that many of us thought were dead or on ...
The Stakes of a No Fly Zone
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russia’s war against Ukraine has been raging on for almost two weeks now and Ukraine is in crisis. President Zelensky has been begging the United St...
Watching Lia Thomas Win
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lia Thomas is a transgender woman who has, in one year, become the star athlete of the women’s swim team at The University of Pennsylvania. When she...
Russia's War on Ukraine: A Roundtable
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Air raid sirens have been ringing out over the capital of Ukraine for the past week. Russian troops have laid siege to Kharkiv, the second biggest cit...
America Is Afraid of War. Putin Knows It.
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Zoe Strimpel on the collapse of Western authority, self and geopolitical understanding— and the predictably catastrophic results of our politics of ...
Condoleezza Rice on Race, Russia, Freedom and Why America’s Best Days Are Still Ahead
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is one of those pioneering American leaders whose story is for the history books. Born in the segregated so...
Beijing's Genocide Olympics
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Right now, the Winter Olympics are underway in Beijing. But for the Chinese Communist Party, the 2022 Games are an opportunity not simply for athletic...
Former Google CEO on Big Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Bitcoin and the Future
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Scmidt has been a pioneer at every chapter of the tech revolution… from the very beginnings of the internet to helming Google for more than a d...
Matt Taibbi v. Bret Stephens on American Power
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since the end of World War II, America has been the dominant world superpower. We have been ready to use that power to defend our national intere...
Why Are We Boosting Kids?
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Covid vaccines are medical miracles. During the pandemic they have been literal life-savers; I’ll never forget the relief I felt after getting t...
The Tiger Mom Won't Stop Roaring
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s hard to think of an institution in American life that’s more broken than higher education. As universities have abandoned core liberal princi...
An Imam Blows the Whistle on Muslim Antisemitism
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a boy growing up in Turkey, Abdullah Antepli thought hating Jews was normal. He read Mein Kampf before he was 15. His parents gave him a children's...
The Aftermath Part 2: The Haves and The Have Nots
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At this point in the pandemic, one group of Americans generally gets to show their faces. The other still does not. One group orders groceries from Am...
The Aftermath Part 1: Kids, Schools, and the Crime Surge
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we approach the third year of this pandemic, it’s become painfully clear that the stringent measures we took to mitigate against the virus had al...
Bringing Sanity to the Omicron Chaos: Three Doctors Weigh In
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you hit a wall with Covid? We have. The irrationality of the current policies and conversations surrounding Covid—guidelines that are coming...
Humans Are More Resilient Than You Think
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are living in an era in which Americans–especially younger ones–say they are increasingly traumatized. In one recent study, 82% of Gen Z respon...
Investigating January 6th: The Price Liz Cheney Paid
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A year ago today, something big happened in Washington. Was it a coup? Was it an insurrection? Was it “the worst attack on our democracy since the c...
Replay: America's Cultural Revolution
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the year ends, we want to share where this podcast began and replay our first episode. What does the public shaming of Palestinian immigrant Majdi...
Replay: Why You’re Right – And Wrong – About Abortion
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The abortion debate is top of mind as we enter 2022, with a pending supreme court decision that could radically change the legality and availability o...
Replay: The Real Story of “The Central Park Karen”
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the next few days we are going to be replaying some listener favorites from the last year, starting with what was without a doubt our most provo...
Abigail Shrier: On Freedom in an Age of Fear
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Abigail Shrier, the author of the bestselling book “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” was recently invited to sp...
The Power of Kim Kardashian
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Just when we think we have Kim Kardashian pinned she adds another hyphen. She’s a reality star, until she owns Instagram. She’s an influencer, unt...
Jussie Smollett and Hate Crime Hoaxes
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, Jussie Smollett’s hate crime allegations captured the nation. The actor and singer claimed that two men beat him, poured bleach over his he...
Quick Question: WTF Is Going on With the Economy?
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eccentric economist and brilliant thinker Tyler Cowen answers our questions about the confusing state of the economy. We talk about: inflation, the st...
Vanished by China: One Couple’s Story
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Desmond Shum knows well the cost of doing business in China. Born to a humble family that was marginalized during the Cultural Revolution, he became a...
Is Covid… Over? And Other Burning Questions This Thanksgiving
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If your family is anything like mine, Thanksgiving is an opportunity to take a break from work, to bask in one others’ presence, and to fight savage...
The Media’s Verdict on Kyle Rittenhouse
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Here is what I thought was true about Kyle Rittenhouse in the last days of August 2020: The 17-year-old was a racist vigilante. I thought he drove acr...
Can Andrew Yang Fix Our Two-Party Dumpster Fire?
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
First, Andrew Yang ran for President, and he could barely get mainstream media’s attention. Then, he ran for Mayor of New York City, and suddenly, h...
Weekend Extra: Why ‘People Love Dead Jews’
07 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been three years since the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, the most lethal attack on Jews on U.S. soil. That day was, for me, as it was for so...
How “Luxury Beliefs” Hurt the Rest of Us
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Defund the police" or "healthy at every size" or "marriage is just an oppressive institution of the patriarchy" - these are just a few of the ideas t...
Women Like Hunting Witches, Too
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve just heard of the word “TERF” (it stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) it was probably because of Dave Chapelle’s new Net...
Pain, Wisdom and Mercy
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ross Douthat is a New York Times columnist, a father of four, an author . . . and also someone who lives with a tremendous amount of pain. Ross has be...
Was the Internet a Horrible Mistake?
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, confirmed what we already felt; that big tech platform’s algorithms are manipulating our sens...
Why You're Wrong—and Right—About Abortion
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The most honest thing I’ve ever read about abortion is by Caitlin Flanagan. It’s called “The Dishonesty of the Abortion Debate: Why We Need to F...
Wrongthink on Race With Glenn C. Loury
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Four decades ago, Glenn C. Loury became the first tenured black professor of economics in Harvard’s history. Ever since then, he has made waves for ...
Vaccine Hesitant? A Doctor Responds
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So much of the conversation about Covid-19 is angry and full of finger-pointing. Dr. Vinay Prasad has consistently been able to cut through the noise,...
The Story of One Teenager's Escape From Afghanistan
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a month since the fall of Afghanistan. And Black Hawk helicopters and Humvees aren’t the only things we left behind. Trapped in a countr...
Portland State Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Peter Boghossian Quit.
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Boghossian is the first one to tell you: he's no victim of cancel culture. The philosophy professor has long had a taste for stoking debate, que...
Courage in the Face of Book Burners
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Abigail Shrier is a lawyer, a reporter and author of Irreversible Damage. One way to describe her book would be: controversial. She has been accused...
American Decline Is a Choice. Let's Not Choose It.
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Between the catastrophic American withdrawal from Afghanistan, an endless pandemic, a broken education system, and competent leaders nowhere in sight,...
You’re Already Living in China’s World Pt 2: Beijing's Long Game
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Part II, a diagnosis of the global ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party with Josh Rogin. Josh explains how U.S policy mistakes in the 20th cent...
You're Already Living in China’s World Pt 1: The Lab Leak Lies
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When the pandemic began eighteen months ago, anyone who dared suggest that the virus came from a lab in Wuhan, China, was dismissed as a crank, or oth...
How We Failed Afghanistan (And Ourselves) with HR McMaster
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did this happen? How did we spend 20 years, over 2 trillion dollars and over 2,000 American lives to wind up losing Afghanistan to the Taliban in ...
When American Doctors Are Scared to Tell the Truth
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For several months, the journalist Katie Herzog has been talking to some of the country's top doctors and professors—not about COVID, or vaccines—...
The Real Story of “The Central Park Karen”
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Cooper was not the internet’s first “Karen” — the pejorative used for a demanding, entitled white woman. But as the Central Park dog walk...
Bigger, Stronger, Faster: The Truth About Testosterone
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why are men the way they are? Are they naturally more aggressive? And is it fair for transwomen to compete in sports separated by sex? Is it possible...
A 21st Century Witch Hunt
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maud Maron is the picture of a passionate progressive. She was a Planned Parenthood escort; a research assistant for a Black Panther leader; a Bernie ...
You're Being Lied To
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One year after her resignation from the New York Times, Bari sits down with author (and America's most famous Stoic) Ryan Holiday to talk about how th...
Rufo v. French: Should Schools Ban Critical Race Theory?
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
All of a sudden, the phrase "Critical Race Theory" seems like it's everywhere. If you are confused by the phrase, or wonder how everyone seems to have...
America's Sex Recession
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A recent study from the American Medical Association found that one-third of men between the ages of 18 to 24 reported having no sex at all in the pre...
Why Winston Marshall Left Mumford & Sons
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For 14 years, Winston Marshall was the banjo player and lead guitarist of the massively successful band Mumford & Sons. Last week, following a viral i...
When a Free Society Becomes a Police State
27 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For 26 years, the swash-buckling, pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily was a thorn in the side of the Chinese Communist Party. This week, after its offic...
Revolt of The Public
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why does every institution feel so broken? Why would newspapers sacrifice their credibility to suppress something like the lab leak theory? Why does i...
Mark Cuban on F*ck You Money
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The billionaire entrepreneur on the ProPublica tax report, capitalism, corporate cowardice, the Chinese Communist Party, crypto & more Learn more abou...
America's Cultural Revolution
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What the public shaming of Palestinian immigrant Majdi Wadi — and the boycott of his Minneapolis business — says about who we are becoming. Learn ...
Official Trailer: Honestly with Bari Weiss
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The most interesting conversations in American life now happen in private. This show is bringing them out of the closet. Stories no one else is tellin...