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Kanye West’s Dark, Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West in London. (Neil Mockford/GC Images)
And Jewish reality.
By Bari Weiss
10.17.22 — Culture and Ideas
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Yesterday was any given Sunday in America, which meant that most Jews were not at all astonished when we looked down at our phones and discovered a former president was calling us ingrates and one of the most famous artists in the world was doing Louis Farrakhan one better. We are long past astonishment. 

For those who don’t have an anxious Jewish mother…

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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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