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Weekend Listening: From McDonalds Drive-Through to Star Harvard Professor
Weekend Listening: From McDonalds Drive-Through to Star Harvard Professor
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Roland Fryer on race and policing, Claudine Gay, and karma—and much more.
By Bari Weiss
02.18.24
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Weekend Listening: From McDonalds Drive-Through to Star Harvard Professor

A little over two years ago, in the pages of The Free Press, Pano Kanelos announced that he was starting a new university in Austin dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth. “We Can’t Wait for Universities to Fix Themselves. So We’re Starting a New One,” declared Pano. I was one of the founding trustees.

The announcement generated a lot of headlines. A…

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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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