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Some Thoughts About Courage
Protesters toppled statues of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and at the Oregon Historical Society on October 11, 2020 in Portland.
We are living through an epidemic of cowardice. The antidote is courage.
By Bari Weiss
10.19.21 — Culture and Ideas
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Why have things come so undone? And what can we do to rebuild them? 

Those are the questions, more than any others, that I’ve been turning over in my mind over the past year and they are the subject of an essay I just published in Commentary Magazine. 

Its headline: “We Got Here Because of Cowardice. Courage Is What Gets Us Out.”

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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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