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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)
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By Bari Weiss
12.05.25 — Editors' Picks
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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, host of the podcast Honestly, and editor-in-chief of CBS News. 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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