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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

What It Means to Be Courageous

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.65.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Bari Weiss joins the COMMENTARY podcast to discuss her article in the new issue: “We Got Here Because of Cowardice. We Get Out With Courage.” She outlines the threat posed by wokeness, and how dissenters against this authoritarian dogma can reverse course. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Music

0:23.9

Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Friday, October 22, 2021.

0:29.7

Although I must confess in fact, as we I'm talking to you, it's actually Thursday.

0:35.2

No, it doesn't like when I do this because I'm like showing you the mechanical.

0:39.4

It's actually Thursday afternoon, October 21, 2021, as I'm talking about this, the

0:43.6

reason I'm mentioning this is in case something happens between Thursday afternoon and Friday

0:47.8

morning when you listen to this, you will understand why we are not taking down.

0:52.6

You'll know what we want to do.

0:53.6

Well, that's one of the things we need to talk about here with today's guest author, joining

1:00.6

yesterday's guest David Zucker and previous guests, Tavitroy and Wilford Riley, contributor

1:08.7

to our woke the threat special issue, the pride of Squirrel Hill, Barry Weiss, hi, Barry.

1:16.2

Hi guys, I'm excited to be here.

1:19.4

So Barry Weiss, of course, made herself a national figure by her, through her resignation from

1:28.0

the New York Times on the grounds that the New York Times had become a stultifying and increasingly

1:33.5

totalitarianizing institution actively seeking to suppress rather than suppressive views

1:40.9

rather than allow multiplicity of views.

1:43.2

And this has now led her to her own publishing business, which you can find on substack,

1:49.6

where apparently 200 billion people are now subscribing to the world.

1:54.5

Not enough.

1:55.5

It's still not enough.

1:56.5

It's never enough for you.

1:58.1

It's never enough for you.

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