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Bari’s Picks Of The Week: High Art, Tough Love, Good News
Abigail Shrier is our new advice columnist. (Adali Schell for The Free Press)
What gender doctors say in private. Michael Dell on his $6 billion donation to America’s youth. David Mamet on Tom Stoppard. And much more.
By Bari Weiss
12.05.25 — Editors' Picks of the Week
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Usually I put some sort of warm-up here, but this week I’m just going to get right to it and say:

I couldn’t be more thrilled that Abigail Shrier is our new advice columnist. You know Abigail from her books and her fantastic columns for us. I know her as a friend. And so believe me when I say—not that it isn’t already abundantly clear—that Abigail is not…

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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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