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Vaccine Mandates: The End of Covid? Or the Beginning of Tyranny?
Vaccine Mandates: The End of Covid? Or the Beginning of Tyranny?
Several thousand protestors opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine and any mandates from the government to take it march through midtown Manhattan on September 18, 2021. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
A Harvard law professor, a leading critic of the War on Terror, a rising GOP star and others weigh in.
By Bari Weiss
09.22.21
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Vaccine Mandates: The End of Covid? Or the Beginning of Tyranny?

Between Gavin Newsom’s feast at the French Laundry and Barack Obama’s birthday bash on the Vineyard, one could be forgiven for thinking we had already witnessed the purest form of chutzpah from our political class.

Then came last week.

There was AOC working the red carpet at the Met Gala. There was this instantly iconic image of Carolyn Maloney smiling …

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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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