Honestly with Bari Weiss

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Rebekka Murphy
 Sep 26, 2022
One of my favorite podcasts! Terrific interviews! Weiss is not afraid to ask the tough questions.

Dan A
 May 9, 2022
One of the most thoughtful, insightful, nuanced and refreshingly honest podcasts, one of my favorite! Always interesting, I never miss an episode!


 Nov 30, 2021

matt
 Nov 18, 2021


 Aug 7, 2021

Description

The most interesting conversations in American life happen in private. This show brings them out of the closet. Stories no one else is telling and conversations with the most fascinating people in the country, every week from The Free Press, hosted by former New York Times and Wall Street Journal journalist Bari Weiss.

Episode Date
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future
Dec 19, 2024
They Tortured Him for Years. Now They Rule Syria.
Dec 17, 2024
Is Kemi Badenoch the Next Margaret Thatcher?
Dec 12, 2024
Marc Andreessen on AI, Tech, Censorship, and Dining with Trump
Dec 10, 2024
What We Can Learn from the Ancient Stoics
Dec 05, 2024
From Aleppo to Tehran: A Middle East on Edge
Dec 03, 2024
Love, Death and Gratitude: Seven Stories
Nov 30, 2024
The Making of America’s Most Famous Cheerleaders
Nov 28, 2024
How to Save America with Peggy Noonan
Nov 26, 2024
Where Do Democrats Go from Here?
Nov 21, 2024
Where Will Trump 2.0 Take the GOP?
Nov 19, 2024
Peter Thiel on Trump, Elon, and the Triumph of the Counter-Elites
Nov 14, 2024
Resistance or Opposition: Which Route Should the Democrats Take?
Nov 12, 2024
Why Trump Won
Nov 07, 2024
A Message from Bari on Election Day
Nov 05, 2024
Trump and the Art of the Bullshitter
Nov 02, 2024
Trick or Treat: It’s Our Halloween Special!
Oct 31, 2024
Trump or Kamala? Ben Shapiro and Sam Harris Debate.
Oct 29, 2024
Should the U.S. Still Police the World? A Live Debate.
Oct 27, 2024
The Parasitic Ideas Threatening the West
Oct 24, 2024
How Hezbollah Is Destroying Lebanon
Oct 22, 2024
Brianna Wu Says She Didn't Change. The Progressive Movement Did.
Oct 17, 2024
The Democrats Voting for Trump
Oct 15, 2024
The Hundred Year Holy War
Oct 12, 2024
“There Is No Peace Here”: Reporting on War with Trey Yingst
Oct 10, 2024
A Year of Revelations
Oct 07, 2024
Emily Oster Talks About Our New Parenting Podcast
Oct 05, 2024
Douglas Murray: A Time of War
Oct 02, 2024
Megyn Kelly on Life After Mainstream Media
Oct 01, 2024
How Republics Unravel: From Rome to . . . America?
Sep 26, 2024
Why Senator Rand Paul Hasn’t Endorsed Trump
Sep 24, 2024
Hezbollah's Pagers and Walkie-Talkies Explode. Now What?
Sep 19, 2024
Is The American Dream Alive and Well? A Live Debate.
Sep 17, 2024
Cat-Eating, Rally Sizes, and Post-Birth Abortion: An American Debate
Sep 11, 2024
World War II and the Rise of Anti-History
Sep 10, 2024
When Students Become Terrorists
Sep 07, 2024
The Republicans Voting for Kamala
Sep 05, 2024
Matt Taibbi on the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex
Sep 03, 2024
How Whole Foods Revolutionized American Eating Habits
Aug 29, 2024
Debate: How Do We Fix American Education?
Aug 27, 2024
From the DNC: Meet the Kamala Democrats
Aug 23, 2024
Nate Silver on the Art of Risking Everything
Aug 20, 2024
The Palestinian ‘Traitor’ Risking Everything to Speak Out
Aug 15, 2024
Dear Caitlin Flanagan and Suzy Weiss: A Free Press Advice Special!
Aug 13, 2024
A Tim Walz Face-Off: Radical? Moderate? We Debate!
Aug 08, 2024
Kamala Harris and the Election of Laughter and Forgetting
Aug 06, 2024
What to Do When the Market Drops? Call Larry Summers.
Aug 06, 2024
Can You Drink Your Way to Sobriety?
Aug 01, 2024
A Middle East on the Brink
Jul 30, 2024
Is Kamala Harris 'Brat'? Also: What's Brat?
Jul 25, 2024
Has Criminal Justice Reform Made Our Cities Unsafe? A Live Debate.
Jul 23, 2024
The Free Press Live: Biden Drops Out
Jul 22, 2024
Disenchanted with Democrats: The Black Voters Going for Trump
Jul 18, 2024
The Free Press LIVE from the RNC: Biden’s Interview, Trump, J.D. Vance, and More!
Jul 16, 2024
The Roots of the Assassination Attempt
Jul 16, 2024
Salena Zito Was Four Feet Away When She Heard the Bullets
Jul 14, 2024
Are We Living in ‘Late Soviet America’? Niall Ferguson and Jonah Goldberg Debate.
Jul 11, 2024
Bari and Nellie Are Having Another Baby—and They Have Questions!
Jul 09, 2024
When a President Drops Out: What Biden Can Learn from 1968
Jul 04, 2024
Will President Biden Drop Out?
Jul 04, 2024
Hello, and Welcome to My TED Talk
Jul 02, 2024
About Last Night. . .
Jun 28, 2024
The Story of Matthew Shepard’s Murder Changed America. But It Wasn't True.
Jun 27, 2024
Can Israel Actually Win This War?
Jun 25, 2024
Was Legalizing Weed a Mistake? A Debate.
Jun 20, 2024
Steven Pinker: Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things
Jun 18, 2024
“I Was Wrong About Anti Semitism”: Sheryl Sandberg on Waking Up
Jun 13, 2024
The Former Russian Official Calling for a Coup Against Putin
Jun 11, 2024
BONUS: Is the Trump Verdict a Witch Trial? Or Justice?
Jun 08, 2024
Argentina's President Javier Milei Loves Being the Skunk at the Garden Party
Jun 06, 2024
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Subversion of the West
Jun 04, 2024
How ‘Vice’ Went from a $6 Billion Media Empire to Bankruptcy
May 30, 2024
Jerry Seinfeld on the Rules of Comedy—and Life
May 28, 2024
Is Israel's War Just? Eli Lake and Michael Moynihan v Briahna Joy Gray and Jake Klein
May 26, 2024
Nellie Bowles Knows Why So Many Progressives Lost Their Minds—She Almost Did, Too
May 14, 2024
Ozempic: Silver Bullet or Devil’s Bargain?
May 07, 2024
‘Small Talk’ with David Sedaris
May 02, 2024
Should the U.S. Shut Its Borders? A Live Debate.
Apr 30, 2024
Is Banning TikTok a Mistake? A Debate.
Apr 26, 2024
Rising Antisemitism and Choosing Freedom
Apr 22, 2024
Nicole Avant on Tragedy, Forgiveness, and Thinking Free
Apr 18, 2024
Iran Attacked Israel. What Comes Next?
Apr 16, 2024
NPR Editor Speaks Out: How National Public Radio Lost Americans' Trust
Apr 09, 2024
How the Working Class Became America’s Second Class
Apr 02, 2024
The Story of Someone Who Changed His Mind
Mar 28, 2024
Smartphones Rewired Childhood. Here's How to Fix It.
Mar 26, 2024
The Free Press in Israel Part 3: The Gathering Storm
Mar 21, 2024
The Free Press in Israel Part 2: Shattered Illusions
Mar 15, 2024
The Free Press in Israel Part 1: Running Toward Fire
Mar 07, 2024
Trailer: The Free Press in Israel
Mar 05, 2024
Why the Kids Aren't Alright
Feb 27, 2024
Two Years Later: Should America Continue to Aid Ukraine? A Debate.
Feb 22, 2024
Alexei Navalny Died for the Truth. Tucker Carlson Fell for the Lie.
Feb 20, 2024
Special Episode! Suzy Weiss on Dating While Problematic
Feb 15, 2024
Economist Roland Fryer on Adversity, Race, and Refusing to Conform
Feb 13, 2024
Andrew Sullivan on What He Got Wrong About Trump
Feb 09, 2024
The Real Team America
Feb 01, 2024
The Right Way to Fight Illiberalism: Christopher Rufo and Yascha Mounk Debate
Jan 26, 2024
Why We Still Need to Talk About America's Covid Failures
Jan 17, 2024
The Silence of the Feminists
Jan 15, 2024
Can Dean Phillips Pull Off the Impossible: Defeat Joe Biden?
Jan 10, 2024
What to Expect in 2024: Predictions from Niall Ferguson, Tyler Cowen, Peter Attia, John McWhorter and More
Jan 05, 2024
Wisdom from a Teen and a Grandfather—60 Years Apart
Dec 25, 2023
The Case of Kate Cox—and the Trouble with the Abortion Debate
Dec 22, 2023
Miracle in Hell: The Baby Twins Who Survived a Massacre
Dec 20, 2023
A Congressional Hearing, A Resignation, and Why DEI Must End For Good
Dec 14, 2023
Why Half of American Babies are Born to Unmarried Mothers
Dec 08, 2023
Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
Nov 29, 2023
David Sedaris: Punching Down
Nov 21, 2023
Priests, Porn Stars and Public Intellectuals All Agree: Debate is Back.
Nov 17, 2023
You Are the Last Line of Defense
Nov 14, 2023
Sam Harris: The Bright Line Between Good and Evil
Nov 12, 2023
Does Elon Musk Have Too Much Power?
Nov 08, 2023
A World Spinning Out of Control
Oct 31, 2023
How Hamas Executed a Massacre, and How One Israeli with Nine Bullets Fought Back
Oct 27, 2023
The Stories—and Stakes—of War in Israel
Oct 18, 2023
The New Axis of Evil: Condoleezza Rice on War in Israel and a Changed World
Oct 13, 2023
Bring Back My Children: An Israeli Mother's Plea
Oct 09, 2023
War in Israel: Michael Oren Explains How ‘Evil’ Infiltrated the Country
Oct 07, 2023
James Carville Says Wokeness “Is Over,” 2024 Will Be “Dangerous”—and Much More from the Democratic Political Icon
Oct 04, 2023
We're All "a Little Bit Dumber": A Night Among GOP Hopefuls
Sep 29, 2023
Is Biden Too Old to Be President? Frank Foer Isn't Sure.
Sep 21, 2023
Replay: Why Leonard Cohen Ran Toward War
Sep 17, 2023
What We're Listening To: Does Anyone Have a Right To Sex?
Sep 07, 2023
What We're Listening To: Richard Dawkins on UnHerd
Aug 31, 2023
The First GOP Debate and The Elephant Not In The Room
Aug 24, 2023
Meet Will Hurd: The Ex-CIA, Anti-Trump Republican Who Wants To Be President
Aug 15, 2023
How to Live After Profound Loss
Aug 10, 2023
Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Wants a Second American Revolution
Aug 01, 2023
Are We In A Pre-War Era?
Jul 27, 2023
Rethinking Higher Ed with Harvard’s Former President
Jul 21, 2023
Are We Living Through 'End Times'?
Jul 19, 2023
When Ideology Corrupts Medicine—and How One Reporter Exposed It
Jul 12, 2023
Affirmative Action, Gay Rights, and Free Speech: What The Supreme Court's Rulings Mean for America
Jul 07, 2023
Chris Christie Endorsed Trump Twice. Now He Wants To Eliminate Him.
Jun 29, 2023
RFK Jr. Is Striking a Nerve. He Explains Why.
Jun 21, 2023
How To Dad in 2023: A Roundtable With Our Favorite Fathers
Jun 16, 2023
What Jordan Neely’s Death Tells Us About Mental Illness and Vigilantism
Jun 07, 2023
How to Live Longer and Healthier with Dr. Peter Attia
Jun 01, 2023
Get To Know Tim Scott: The GOP’s Newest Presidential Hopeful
May 22, 2023
Israel at 75: Miracles and Madness
May 17, 2023
America Needs a Self-Help Book. Tim Urban's Got One.
May 12, 2023
Peter Thiel Says America Has Bigger Problems Than Wokeness
May 03, 2023
AI With Sam Altman: The End of The World? Or The Dawn of a New One?
Apr 27, 2023
‘My Friend’s Descent into Madness and Bloodshed’: An American Tragedy
Apr 19, 2023
Our Favorite Passover Conversation
Apr 10, 2023
New York City Mayor Eric Adams
Apr 03, 2023
Rick Rubin Says Trust Your Gut, Not Your Audience
Mar 29, 2023
Bank Runs, Crypto Scams and World-Transforming AI with Tyler Cowen
Mar 21, 2023
Why Men Seek Danger
Mar 16, 2023
Honestly Presents: The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling
Mar 10, 2023
Why Nikki Haley Is Running for President
Mar 02, 2023
A Gen Z Religious Revival: 250 Hours of Worship in Kentucky
Feb 22, 2023
Will Ozempic Solve Obesity in America? A Debate
Feb 15, 2023
Why 65% of Fourth Graders Can't Really Read
Feb 10, 2023
A Golden Age of Gurus
Jan 31, 2023
America's Role in the Holocaust: Ken Burns on The Most Important Film He Will Ever Make
Jan 26, 2023
America’s Broken Immigration System: An Honest Debate
Jan 17, 2023
Raw & Unclassified: A Friday Roundtable
Jan 13, 2023
Bad Moms with Emily Oster
Jan 05, 2023
A Holiday Treat with David Sedaris!
Dec 22, 2022
The Twitter Files and the Future of the Democratic Party With Silicon Valley's Congressman
Dec 16, 2022
The State of the Black-Jewish Relationship in America: A Roundtable
Dec 09, 2022
Bibi Netanyahu: Israel's New Prime Minister. Again.
Nov 30, 2022
A Better Way to Disagree
Nov 23, 2022
Nuclear War Games with HR McMaster
Nov 16, 2022
The Midterms No One Saw Coming: A Postmortem
Nov 09, 2022
Who Do Voters Hate More? A Midterm Roundtable.
Nov 03, 2022
Has Criminal Justice Reform Made Us Less Safe? A Debate.
Oct 26, 2022
Why We Must Save Our Boys
Oct 19, 2022
How to Change Your Mind
Oct 13, 2022
The Iranian Regime's Most Wanted Woman
Oct 07, 2022
From Racial Reckoning to Race Abolition
Sep 28, 2022
The Great Canadian Mass Graves Hoax
Sep 22, 2022
Eating Ourselves to Death
Sep 15, 2022
Has Freedom Failed Us? A Debate
Sep 08, 2022
Oberlin Accused the Gibsons of Racism. Now It Owes Them $36 Million.
Sep 01, 2022
Bill Barr Calls Bullsh*t
Aug 25, 2022
Larry Summers: The High Price of Getting it Right
Aug 18, 2022
We Ignored Salman Rushdie’s Warning
Aug 16, 2022
The Senate’s Only Black Republican Says: Stop Being Pessimistic
Aug 10, 2022
Sex, Porn, Feminism: A Debate!
Aug 03, 2022
The Eternally Radical Idea
Jul 27, 2022
Election Denial: A Roundtable
Jul 20, 2022
The Infamous Andrew Schulz
Jul 15, 2022
Does Glorifying Sickness Deter Healing?
Jul 13, 2022
The New Founders America Needs
Jul 07, 2022
The Holy Anarchy of Fun
Jul 04, 2022
Power and Politics with Mike Pompeo
Jul 01, 2022
America After Roe: A Roundtable
Jun 28, 2022
Is Crypto Over? A Debate!
Jun 21, 2022
TGIF! Inflation, Drag Queens & DA's
Jun 17, 2022
The Case for American Seriousness
Jun 15, 2022
What To Do About Guns
Jun 09, 2022
Marianne Williamson on America’s ‘Dark Psychic Force’
May 31, 2022
The Battle for the American Right
May 25, 2022
What’s the Best Way to Raise Good People? A Debate
May 18, 2022
The Yale Law Professor Who Is Anti-Roe, But Pro-Choice
May 11, 2022
TGIF: Welcome Back to Both 1973 and 1984
May 06, 2022
Why This Gay Rights Pioneer Opposes Gender Ideology
May 03, 2022
Your Attention Didn't Collapse. It Was Stolen.
Apr 27, 2022
TGIF! Libs of TikTok, CNN+ and Much More
Apr 22, 2022
The Inflation Economy: What You Need to Know
Apr 19, 2022
The Story That Made—and Saved—America
Apr 14, 2022
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Apr 12, 2022
TGIF! The Week That Was With Nellie Bowles and Katie Herzog
Apr 08, 2022
Who By Fire: Why Leonard Cohen Ran Toward War
Apr 06, 2022
How Big Tech Is Strangling Your Freedom
Mar 29, 2022
Leaving the Mainstream to Build Media Without Fear
Mar 25, 2022
“The Fight Against Evil”: Three Reporters in Ukraine
Mar 23, 2022
Why No One Trusts Anything
Mar 18, 2022
Things Worth Fighting For
Mar 16, 2022
The Stakes of a No Fly Zone
Mar 10, 2022
Watching Lia Thomas Win
Mar 06, 2022
Russia's War on Ukraine: A Roundtable
Mar 03, 2022
America Is Afraid of War. Putin Knows It.
Feb 25, 2022
Condoleezza Rice on Race, Russia, Freedom and Why America’s Best Days Are Still Ahead
Feb 22, 2022
Beijing's Genocide Olympics
Feb 16, 2022
Former Google CEO on Big Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Bitcoin and the Future
Feb 11, 2022
Matt Taibbi v. Bret Stephens on American Power
Feb 09, 2022
Why Are We Boosting Kids?
Feb 04, 2022
The Tiger Mom Won't Stop Roaring
Feb 02, 2022
An Imam Blows the Whistle on Muslim Antisemitism
Jan 27, 2022
The Aftermath Part 2: The Haves and The Have Nots
Jan 21, 2022
The Aftermath Part 1: Kids, Schools, and the Crime Surge
Jan 19, 2022
Bringing Sanity to the Omicron Chaos: Three Doctors Weigh In
Jan 14, 2022
Humans Are More Resilient Than You Think
Jan 12, 2022
Investigating January 6th: The Price Liz Cheney Paid
Jan 06, 2022
Replay: America's Cultural Revolution
Dec 30, 2021
Replay: Why You’re Right – And Wrong – About Abortion
Dec 28, 2021
Replay: The Real Story of “The Central Park Karen”
Dec 23, 2021
Abigail Shrier: On Freedom in an Age of Fear
Dec 21, 2021
The Power of Kim Kardashian
Dec 16, 2021
Jussie Smollett and Hate Crime Hoaxes
Dec 10, 2021
Quick Question: WTF Is Going on With the Economy?
Dec 03, 2021
Vanished by China: One Couple’s Story
Dec 01, 2021
Is Covid… Over? And Other Burning Questions This Thanksgiving
Nov 23, 2021
The Media’s Verdict on Kyle Rittenhouse
Nov 17, 2021
Can Andrew Yang Fix Our Two-Party Dumpster Fire?
Nov 10, 2021
Weekend Extra: Why ‘People Love Dead Jews’
Nov 07, 2021
How “Luxury Beliefs” Hurt the Rest of Us
Nov 04, 2021
Women Like Hunting Witches, Too
Oct 28, 2021
Pain, Wisdom and Mercy
Oct 19, 2021
Was the Internet a Horrible Mistake?
Oct 13, 2021
Why You're Wrong—and Right—About Abortion
Oct 06, 2021
Wrongthink on Race With Glenn C. Loury
Sep 29, 2021
Vaccine Hesitant? A Doctor Responds
Sep 22, 2021
The Story of One Teenager's Escape From Afghanistan
Sep 17, 2021
Portland State Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Peter Boghossian Quit.
Sep 10, 2021
Courage in the Face of Book Burners
Sep 08, 2021
American Decline Is a Choice. Let's Not Choose It.
Sep 01, 2021
You’re Already Living in China’s World Pt 2: Beijing's Long Game
Aug 25, 2021
You're Already Living in China’s World Pt 1: The Lab Leak Lies
Aug 23, 2021
How We Failed Afghanistan (And Ourselves) with HR McMaster
Aug 19, 2021
When American Doctors Are Scared to Tell the Truth
Aug 11, 2021
The Real Story of “The Central Park Karen”
Aug 03, 2021
Bigger, Stronger, Faster: The Truth About Testosterone
Jul 29, 2021
A 21st Century Witch Hunt
Jul 26, 2021
You're Being Lied To
Jul 20, 2021
Rufo v. French: Should Schools Ban Critical Race Theory?
Jul 13, 2021
America's Sex Recession
Jul 07, 2021
Why Winston Marshall Left Mumford & Sons
Jul 01, 2021
When a Free Society Becomes a Police State
Jun 27, 2021
Revolt of The Public
Jun 16, 2021
Mark Cuban on F*ck You Money
Jun 14, 2021
America's Cultural Revolution
Jun 09, 2021
Official Trailer: Honestly with Bari Weiss
Jun 04, 2021