Courage in the Face of Book Burners

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

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 of spreading misinformation by GLAAD. A prominent ACLU lawyer called for her book to be banned. A favorable review of the book in Science-Based Medicine ignited an online mob, which led to the journal disappearing that first review and replacing it with a negative one. Amazon and Target have also been pressured to stop carrying Shrier's book. But it hasn’t worked. Despite being ignored by outlets like the New York Times Book Review, Irreversible Damage is an enormous bestseller. Some readers felt so passionately about this book that they took out billboards advertising it on their own dime. Both the subject that Abigail writes about and the treatment of her book deserve your attention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is an ad from Better Help.
0:02.0	As kids, we were always learning and growing.
0:05.0	But at some point as adults, we tend to lose that sense of curiosity and excitement.
0:10.0	Therapy can help you continue that journey, because your back- back to school era can come at any age.
0:15.0	And Better Help makes it easy to get started with affordable online therapy you can do from anywhere.
0:20.0	Rediscover possibility with better help.
0:23.6	Visit better help.com to learn more.
0:25.8	That's better H-E-L-P.com.
0:28.6	I'm Barry Weiss and this is honestly. First of all for everyone who celebrates and for those
0:35.8	who don't, Shenatova, happy new year. According to the Hebrew calendar it is now 572 and I'm wishing all of you a sweet and healthy and happy year.
0:47.0	Yesterday I attended synagogue in person for the first time in a really, really long time.
0:52.0	And though there were masks and lots of vaccine checks and
0:55.5	cameras for the people still zooming at home, at least we were there. And after the
1:01.3	frustration and the confusion and the loneliness of this past year, it felt really good to have our butts in the seats.
1:09.1	And it was a really good reminder to be grateful for the fact that awkwardly, slowly, but hopefully, inevitably,
1:18.4	we're going to reach the other side of the pandemic.
1:21.3	Today's episode is a little bit different.
1:24.0	What I'm doing is I'm releasing the audio of a subscriber-only Zoom
1:28.0	that I held last week with my friend Abigail Shrier.
1:32.0	For those who don't know, my newsletter which is hosted on Substack it's what keeps the lights on
1:37.1	over here so those who choose to subscribe and it's only five dollars a month you
1:41.3	are supporting everything that we do.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Free Press, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Free Press and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.