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Bari’s Picks of the Week: A New Look
This week, The Free Press covered a lot of ground: the Right’s identity crisis, a deep dive on Palantir, the new drug war, and more. (Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images)
What the right gets wrong. What Palantir actually does. Dispatches on drugs. And much more.
By Bari Weiss
10.24.25 — Bari’s Picks of the Week
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There are some weeks where this Friday roundup basically writes itself. Those are the weeks when there’s really just one big story and I want to share how we covered it. But this week we had a lot of great stories on a whole host of subjects that I want to share with you.

We’ll get right to it. But first, I want to talk about our new podcast, Spiral. It’…

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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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