My Conversation With Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian is seen at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on September 13, 2021, in New York City. (Raymond Hall/GC Images)

How the mogul turned her fame into real power. Plus: cancel culture and criminal justice reform; Trump and TikTok; beauty and breaking the rules.

By Bari Weiss

12.16.21 — Culture and Ideas

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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