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The Gospel of Bari Weiss

She is self-aggrandizing, sensationalistic, deliberately contrarian, and a useful puppet of oligarchical power. Mainstream media can't get enough of her.

Thad Zajac
Aug 15, 2024
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If you haven’t heard of Bari Weiss, that’s probably to your betterment. I apologize for ruining your blissful ignorance, but over the last several years, she has gained outsize influence in our politics, our culture, and our news coverage. So, it was with equal degrees of self-loathing and anger at the New York Times for even…

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