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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Fixing America
A memorial and candlelight vigil is held for Charlie Kirk at the Boston Common on September 18, 2025. (Photo by Matthew J. Lee via Getty Images)
Ten ideas for repairing the country. Free speech in crisis. Eli Lake on grace in politics. Woody Allen on life and death. And much more.
By Bari Weiss
09.19.25 — Bari’s Picks of the Week
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Hi folks. This was a hard week. As we wrote in our editorial in the wake of the worst political assassination our country has witnessed in decades: “Charlie Kirk’s assassination has hit the staff of The Free Press hard. . . . We’re journalists, which means we are used to reporting on horrible events, including gun violence, assaults, and murders. So why…

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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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