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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Epstein, AI, and More
“Can Fuentes move beyond the podcast sphere to influence our politics?” (Sipa via AP Images)
The war within the American right, the cancellation of a Broadway star, and much more of our best stuff from this week.
By Bari Weiss
11.21.25 — Bari’s Picks of the Week
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It was another chaotic week in America, which made it an excellent week for Free Press stories, with one fantastic piece after another.

Let’s get right to it.

The War Inside the Right

Ever since his appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show three weeks ago, Nick Fuentes and his followers (known as “Groypers”) have become a central fault line in the GOP. Now, as …

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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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