One of my favorite new podcasts is Honestly by Bari Weiss. She was a columnist at the New York Times until she resigned last year saying woke culture had taken over the Times and created a hostile work environment. She is a conservative, but against Trump populism.
She was Bat Mitzvah at the synagogue in Pittsburgh where eleven Jews were murdered by a gunman shouting that he wanted all Jews to die.
On her podcast, she interviews guests covering a gamut of American culture and its dysfunction.
Her second episode was interview with Mark Cuban on money and hard questions on the ill effects of billionaires on society.
In her most recent episode, Weiss interviewed Dr. Vinay Prasad about strategies to overcome vaccine hesitancy. She ended the interview by asking Prasad how he lives his life in and out of the hospital where he works in San Francisco. Prasad said a vaccinated person wearing a mask outside is completely unnecessary, but he lives in a very blue city so he sometimes wears a mask outside just to be part of his community.
She interviewed Professor Peter Boghossian about why he left Portland State over an oppressive woke culture dominating the campus.
Lt. Gen. HR McMaster discussed his career and tenure in the Trump administration in an interview I found fascinating.
She interviewed the head of Apple News in Hong Kong about the formerly independent city state falling under direct control of China.
And for something completely different, listen to the episode on America's Sex Recession.
Weiss also has a substack. The latest article titled Everybody Hates Jews is brilliant in showing the danger of Jew hatred from the left and the right:
In an era in which the past is mined by offense-archaeologists for the most minor of microaggressions, the very real macroaggressions taking place right now against Jews go ignored. Assaults on Hasidic Jews on the streets of Brooklyn, which have become a regular feature of life there, are overlooked or, sometimes, justified by the very activists who go to the mat over the “cultural appropriation” of a taco. It is why corporations issue passionate press releases and pledge tens of millions of dollars to other minorities when they are under siege, but almost never do the same for Jews.
Here is the full article.
I listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts.
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