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Bari Weiss: The War on Our History
How did we wind up with a left that defaces Churchill’s statues, and a right that defaces Churchill’s legacy? (Aaron Chown/Getty Images)
We have an illiberal left that sympathizes with modern-day Nazis in the form of Hamas, and an illiberal right that sympathizes with the original ones.
By Bari Weiss
09.05.24 — History
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If you ever find yourself defending Adolf Hitler and demonizing Winston Churchill, you should probably question the decisions you’ve made up until that point. 

That’s the situation that Tucker Carlson and his guest—the pseudo-historian Darryl Cooper, who goes by the internet handle Martyr Made—found themselves in on Carlson’s podcast earlier this week.

I …

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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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