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Argentina’s President Javier Milei Loves Being the Skunk at the Garden Party
Bari with Argentina’s president Javier Milei. (The Free Press)
A sit-down with the world’s first libertarian head of state.
By Bari Weiss
06.06.24 — U.S. Politics
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At the start of the twentieth century, Argentina was one of the wealthiest countries in the world. The capital, Buenos Aires, was known as “the Paris of South America.”

A lot can happen in a hundred years. 

Argentina today is in grave crisis. It has defaulted on its sovereign debt three times since 2001, and a few months ago, it faced an annualized inflat…

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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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