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Lincoln Isn't Evil. Neither Is the West. Stand Up to the Woke Lies.
Winston Churchill is seen defaced in Parliament Square on June 7, 2020. (Isabel Infantes/AFP via Getty Images).
My front-page column in today's New York Post. Plus: Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
By Bari Weiss
02.01.21
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This column ran in The New York Post this morning. Here it is in full, with thanks to The Post for allowing the reprint:

I realize the faddish thing to say these days is that we live in the worst, most broken and backward country in the world and maybe in the history of civilization. It’s utter nonsense.


I have a few basic litmus tests in my own life: Can…

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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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