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Emily Oster joins me and Nellie Bowles to discuss parenting, Covid, and making enemies left and right.
By Bari Weiss
01.07.23 — Parenting
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When my wife—TGIF overlord Nellie Bowles—was pregnant last year, she became obsessed with Economist Emily Oster’s book, Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong–and What You Really Need to Know. Amidst a barrage of conflicting and confusing pregnancy advice, Oster laid out the data on everything we needed to know. For example: de…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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