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Honestly: Revolt of the Public
Honestly: Revolt of the Public
Thousands of Egyptians gather after the Friday prayer in Cairo's Tahrir Square on February 25, 2011. (Khaled Desouki via Getty Images)
By Bari Weiss
06.17.21 — Culture and Ideas
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Honestly: Revolt of the Public

Why does every institution feel so broken? Why would newspapers sacrifice their credibility to suppress something like the lab leak theory? Why does it feel like small differences of opinion so quickly turn into hate? Martin Gurri saw it all coming. The CIA analyst predicted Trump, Brexit, WallStreetBets, BLM, the Yellow vests, and believes all of these…

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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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