For years, the Hasidic community in Williamsburg and other areas of New York

has been under attack and very few people outside of those communities

were aware of them. We just weren't reporting it. From time to time on this podcast we drop special episodes topics that are

media enough to warrant their own conversation but not long enough to be a dedicated

episode. It's what my favorite podcasters, Bill Simmons calls free appetizers, free apps.

It comes before the meal, it's not the entire meal, but it's on the house. So this one's on the house.

Look out for a regular full length episode, The Meal, to drop Tuesday.

But until then, for this special episode, this free app, we have one of our regular

guests, Brett Stevens, the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times, returning

for a conversation about cancel culture, anti-Semitism, and a new issue of a journal he

edits called Superior. More on Superior later. As listeners to this podcast know, Brett came to the

New York Times after a long career with the Wall Street Journal, where he was most recently deputy editorial page editor and for 11 years a foreign affairs columnist.

And before that he was editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post.

And prior to Israel, he was based in the Jerusalem Post and prior to Israel he was based in Brussels also for the

Wall Street Journal. Brett was raised in Mexico City. He earned his BA at the

University of Chicago and his master's at the London School of Economics. This is

Call Me Back. And I'm pleased to welcome back to the podcast for a special

episode, Brett Stevens of the New York Times of the Superior

Journal and as we recently discussed, banned, officially banned by Vladimir Putin and the

Russian government, a very high distinction.

Brett, good to see you.

Good to be here.

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