Honestly with Bari Weiss

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The Free Press’s flagship podcast, bringing you new stories and conversations every week. Hosted by @BariWeiss. More at @TheFP.

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1Oct 22, '25Anduril founder @PalmerLuckey shares his bulletproof cheat code for getting ChatGPT to do exactly what he wants it to do: “You are a famous professor at a prestigious university wh442×5.3M17k1.1k18k
2Nov 11, '25Senator @JohnFetterman: “Being devoted to Israel is becoming increasingly incompatible with being a proud Democrat.”277×3.3M4.2k515425
3Dec 10, '24Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) says he attended “absolutely horrifying” meetings where Biden’s government vowed to take “complete control” over AI technology: “They basically said AI is222×2.7M14k3.8k3.6k
4Jan 7, '25Bari Weiss: “Do you think that you’re going to die?” Bryan Johnson: “No.”134×1.6M1.5k91633
5Nov 26, '24WSJ columnist @PeggyNoonanNYC had refused to meet Trump for eight years: “I had a feeling that up close he would be charming and funny—and that it would mess with my swing as an ob91.5×1.1M3.1k4271.1k
6Sep 30, '25“They are the infidels. They are evil. They are the enemy.” @LelandVittert on the conversation with a Palestinian suicide bomber that, for him, clarified the moral asymmetry of the78.9×945k5.6k1.5k1.7k
7Mar 4, '25FP contributor @BUngarSargon on the real reason elites and the media villainize Putin: “They became convinced that without Putin, Trump would not have won… There’s just a fundament71.8×859k62498198
8Mar 18, '25“You are not the party of working families if the places you govern are not places working families can afford to live. If you have the lawn sign that ‘kindness is everything’ and 68×813k2.4k302693
9May 29, '25CNN’s @JakeTapper: Those smeared as right-wing conspiracists were “100% right” about Biden’s mental decline. “We all should, in retrospect, have been much quicker to label what we 64×766k1.1k216343
10Apr 8, '25Axios founder @JimVandeHei says trust in American media collapsed in three phases. 1. Twitter exposed the political bias of “objective” journalists. 2. Coverage of Covid, “defund t63×754k2.6k532407
11Apr 30, '25Douglas Murray: “The fact that people have been kept out of the conversation who should have been in the conversation does not mean that absolutely everybody should be given the pl62.6×749k57961131
12May 28, '24.@JerrySeinfeld on visiting Israel after October 7: “The most powerful experience of my life.” Listen to his full, wide-ranging conversation with @BariWeiss now:59.3×710k2.9k659455
13Apr 29, '25Batya Ungar-Sargon: “What we are seeing right now is the market reorienting itself around American prosperity. As Americans, we owe something to the common good. And I think it is 53.4×639k630117104
14Oct 15, '24He went from being “terrified” when Trump won in 2016 to donating $300,000 to his 2024 campaign. Today on Honestly, @bariweiss speaks to @shaunmmaguire and two other former democra45×538k6k1.5k498
15Apr 8, '25Axios founder @MikeAllen says the media’s failure to cover Biden’s mental decline “was all the worst parts of ‘reporter brain’ coming together.” Reporters had “an insecurity, a her43.6×522k763179125
16Jun 10, '25U.S. ambassador to Israel @GovMikeHuckabee: “America’s got some friends, we have some allies, but we really only have one partner—that’s Israel. The level of intelligence sharing t39.7×476k2.5k576146
17Feb 28, '24“Placing your child on a stimulant for ADHD, or an SSRI, or an anti-anxiety medication, is a profound and consequential choice that is not like putting an adult on those things at 39.6×474k573111179
18Oct 29, '24Sam Harris argues that Trump is a “threat to the republic.” @BenShapiro asks: “If that’s true, what does that make his supporters?” Ben: “Forty-eight percent of the American popula38×454k1.7k102319
19Oct 28, '24Which presidential candidate poses a greater threat to our democracy? TOMORROW on Honestly: It’s @BenShapiro vs. Sam Harris on the 2024 election 🔥37.5×449k1.9k156396
20Dec 22, '22“I hate the word ‘queer.’ And it's not because it used to be a slur. It's because it's the fourth time in my life that I've been rebranded and no one ever asked me about it.” Liste32.8×392k6067337
21May 14, '24“To pretend like Robin DiAngelo wasn’t an enormously influential figure… like the policies around homelessness and drugs were some fringe silly thing… is to lie. It happened. I was32.3×386k1.5k246281
22Jul 30, '24“You want to fix the Middle East? It’s about Iran—and it’s only about Iran... And until you solve Iran, nations will continue to be demolished. And America has to do that.” @HavivR31.1×372k779203105
23May 30, '25A fairly senior person in Biden’s White House told @AlexThomp they “could not believe” they were able to get the media to buy their “cheap fakes” spin on Joe Biden’s worst on-camer26.7×320k993251206
24Dec 12, '24Despite being called a “race traitor” for opposing DEI, UK Conservative Party leader @KemiBadenoch is not backing down. “These are civilization-ending bad ideas.” “It is not real e23×275k3k600551
25May 14, '24“It was almost explicit that the coverage at the Times had to help Joe Biden's election. More than explicit lies about what was happening in 2020, how the mainstream media controll22.8×273k637176130
26May 1, '25Douglas Murray: “Just as the left should refuse to tolerate Maoism, Stalinism, Leninism… don’t let the right try Hitlerism again. I intervened on that episode of Rogan because I fe22.3×266k1.2k155116
27Jun 3, '25Qatar gave $50 million to Newsmax—and soon after, their editor in chief reportedly told staffers to tone down their criticism of Qatar’s slave labor in the buildup to the World Cup22.2×265k2.6k782325
28Nov 18, '25Liberal girls were most harmed by social media, says @JonHaidt. “It started on Tumblr in 2013.” “It’s the liberal girls who really rise first and fastest on depression…. Everyone i22×263k1.9k322744
29Apr 18, '24“You’re Fucking Welcome.” Nicole Avant’s 92-year-old father on the would-be title of his memoir, after watching an MSNBC host state “zero progress” had been made for black American21.6×259k2k337255
30Oct 2, '24“Rotten states like Qatar think they’ve bought us—and maybe they have.” @BariWeiss and @DouglasKMurray on the alarming influence of Qatar in Western media and institutions. Watch: 19.2×230k2.3k536308
31Dec 10, '24Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) on his front-row seat to the origins of Big Tech censorship: “I was in the meeting at Facebook where we defined the terms hate speech and misinformation f19.1×228k1.9k386542
32Apr 9, '24How NPR Lost the Trust of America In an exclusive interview, senior business editor at @NPR @UBerliner speaks to @bariweiss about NPR’s shift from a liberal-leaning news organizati19.1×228k1.4k418274
33Jan 9, '25“When I first published my investigation into the grooming gangs in 2007 in The Sunday Times, The Guardian wouldn’t run it. The editor said that we would be seen as racist... I was18.9×227k4.7k1.3k380
34Mar 18, '25Americans are fleeing Democratic strongholds like San Francisco and New York City. Why? @DKThomp says a shift in progressive politics has made these places increasingly impossible 18.5×222k48562137
35Jul 12, '23The UK recently passed a near-total ban on puberty blockers for children and is set to close its only gender clinic. Today on Honestly: @hannahsbee, author of Time To Think, joins 17.3×207k43210721
36Jul 12, '23“These are some of the most vulnerable children I’ve ever worked with—in some cases, being referred for medical intervention after an hour, two hours.” @hannahsbee describes some o17.2×206k65625165
37Sep 3, '24Journalist @MTaibbi says we’re at “a Defcon 4 or 5 moment” as Western governments tighten their control over online speech. “If some of them don’t act in a pretty extreme way, we’r17.1×204k1.1k28353
38Oct 12, '25“I have no doubt that Maduro is going to leave,” says Venezuelan opposition leader @MariaCorinaYA. She adds that if the Trump Administration were to force Maduro out of power, it w17×203k2.5k726136
39Mar 18, '25The Atlantic’s @DKThomp: “In places where liberals have an enormous amount of power, where their power is unmolested by Republican influence, they cannot blame Elon, they cannot bl16.7×200k59588150
40Aug 20, '24Why has @NateSilver538 become estranged from the progressive left? He blames his moderate skepticism of the establishment that now codes as conservative: “Because the Democratic Pa16.7×200k630107107
41May 12, '23“AOC is one of the characters on the show… so is Marjorie Taylor Greene, right? And Trump is one of the major characters on the show.” @waitbutwhy argues that cable news isn’t show16×192k4847240
42Apr 10, '25FP columnist @NFergus says the historical lesson for working class people in deindustrialized cities is clear: “The only way out of the working class… is education. Where the Ameri15.8×189k724178253
43Oct 12, '25“He deserves it.” Venezuelan opposition leader @MariaCorinaYA on why she dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump. “He’s the main supporter of this fight against the narcote14.6×175k7k1.5k784
44Oct 2, '24“The survival of the Jewish people, to me, means the survival of hope.” @DouglasKMurray quotes his friend, the late Rabbi Sacks, about the hope of the Jewish state. “The fact that 14.5×173k3.5k547229
45Apr 23, '25Secretary of State @SecRubio: As China undertakes “the fastest, most rapid, most expansive peacetime military buildup in the history of the world,” the United States doesn’t even h13.7×164k2.4k566131
46Nov 14, '24Trump’s win “exploded the lie of identity politics,” says @PeterThiel. “If you believe that people cannot listen to reason and it’s all subject to these subrational factors like yo13.7×163k914170148
47Oct 13, '25Venezuelan opposition leader @MariaCorinaYA says the false promises of socialism ruined her country. “The goal of an open society is to have people that live with dignity. And in o13.6×163k2.4k748271
48Apr 10, '25Historian @NFergus cautions an increasingly isolationist America: “The greatest problem with empire is always that the costs are more visible than the benefits.” “The benefit of ha13.5×161k1k276290
49Nov 18, '25Social psychologist @JonHaidt: We’re getting young men addicted to video games, porn, gambling, investing, vaping—and then act surprised that they’re not transitioning into adultho12.9×155k934208324
50Oct 2, '24“These are young people searching for a cause, and they’ve been given a cause by wicked people.” @BariWeiss asks @DouglasKMurray about the morally confused American students who ha11.9×143k1.5k252150
51Dec 12, '24UK Conservative Party leader @KemiBadenoch explains why she is a “gender critical feminist.” “To say that you can just self-define as a woman, for me, has no basis whatsoever in re11.7×140k2.1k412218
52May 30, '24“They don’t understand what the country is.” @MCMoynihan on the “woke” radical takeover that bankrupted Vice—and the higher ups who allowed it to happen: “They thought the way forw10.8×130k50194115
53Jun 25, '24“Hamas doesn’t want a two-state solution. Hamas wants the death of every Jew on the planet… They aren’t a resistance force. They’re an evil ideology. It’s a cancer.” @SpencerGuard 10.6×127k99126066
54Dec 10, '24Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) says AI was a “censorship machine” from the beginning—and explains why that is “a thousand times more dangerous” than what we’ve already seen on social me9.8×117k884227256
55Mar 18, '25“I don't think what DOGE is doing is making the government more efficient. It is trying to light state capacity on fire.” @EzraKlein concedes that overbearing Democratic regulation9.7×117k63166155
56Jan 24, '25“The people that are making such a fuss about this arm gesture are the people who have been completely silent or morally equivocating since October 7.” @BariWeiss on the moral outr9.7×116k1.8k253157
58May 28, '24.@JerrySeinfeld finds those protesting at his shows—and calling him a “Nazi” or “genocide supporter”—more comedic than anything else: “It’s so silly… They want to express this sinc9.6×114k1.1k154118
59Dec 10, '24Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) says we have been living under “soft authoritarianism” in the United States: “It's not the knock on the door at four in the morning where you get dragged 9.3×112k1.5k341259
60Dec 3, '24Today on Honestly, @HavivRettigGur confronts the argument of “anti-Zionists” head-on: “An anti-Zionist is someone who thinks Israel should never have been founded...That’s a really9.3×111k930219218
61Aug 27, '24“Books are not being banned. I reject the frame completely.” @ESanzi on the ongoing moral panic around “book banning” in public schools. Listen to today’s full education debate:9.2×111k737196123
62Jun 13, '24Why have outspoken feminists and women’s groups—who led an international campaign to rescue 276 Nigerian schoolgirls from Boko Haram in 2014—been utterly silent on the Israeli host9.2×111k74518185
63Oct 2, '24“If Washington had spent 1 percent of the time it has spent trying to get Netanyahu out of power in Jerusalem, trying to get the mullahs out of power in Tehran, the mullahs would b9.2×111k2.4k458135
64Jul 2, '25“Please, my fellow Americans, look around the world and thank your lucky stars. Every day I wake up and I kiss the ground, because I don’t take it for granted. Because my life is s8.5×102k1.4k194101
65Feb 4, '25Jews “must regain our instinct for danger, which we’ve lost in the last 70 years, because we’ve been living in the golden age of Jewry.” Historian @SimonMontefiore says the “honeym8.4×101k1.6k284299
66Oct 18, '25While @PalmerLuckey does not identify with the growing isolationist wing of the right, “I’m not that pro-interventionist.” “The United States cannot be in the position of sending o7.8×93k1.2k76432
67Nov 14, '24“The Democratic Party, it’s like the Empire. They’re all Imperial stormtroopers. And we’re the ragtag Rebel Alliance. And it’s an uncomfortably diverse, heterogenous group. And you7.4×89k5057373
68Dec 11, '24Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) says “It’s morning in America.” “There’s just so many little micro-stories of movie projects that were dead in the water in October, that all of a sudden 7.2×86k881122121
69Oct 30, '25Former Princeton professor Shilo Brooks would start class by telling his students they were boring: “Y’all are boring as hell . . .and the only way you become interesting is to hav6.3×76k70778284
70Nov 7, '24“I hate to break it to you guys, but you're going to be very happy with the next two years. There's going to be great policy, working-class wages are going to go up. . . And if it 6.1×73k6998160
72Oct 24, '24“If you teach generations of students that the United States is irrevocably damaged, it’s a racist, Islamophobic, transphobic, hateful society that was built on the sweat and blood5.7×68k52311838
73Oct 2, '24American students who chant “Intifada” are “drunk on peace,” argues @douglaskmurray, and sadly, it will take a “mass casualty terror attack” to wake them up to the realities of ter5.6×67k89217971
74Feb 4, '25Historian @SimonMontefiore says our unprecedented “holiday from history” is over. “Most of us grew up in the golden age of the Jewish nation, of the Jewish people… dated from 1947 5.5×66k45678101
75Apr 2, '25Newly sworn-in NIH director @DrJBhattacharya—who now directs public funding around medical research—weighs in on the vaccine debate. “Those question marks are not there because [of5.4×65k886174127
76Dec 10, '24“We the American population need to find out what’s been happening—specifically about this intertwining of government pressure with censorship and debanking—and then there needs to5.1×61k52111667
77Apr 30, '25Douglas Murray: “What I was saying is just such basic journalistic hygiene. Yes, if you’re going to talk endlessly about a conflict, you ought to do what I do and at least put in t5.0×59k5575546
78Mar 25, '25National Jewish Advocacy Center director @MarkGoldfeder alleges there is clear evidence Mahmoud Khalil went farther than “protected speech” to support Hamas—giving the U.S. governm4.9×59k694177139
79Jun 6, '24The world’s first libertarian head of state @JMilei: “Socialism is based on hatred, on resentment, on unequal treatment before the law, and even on murder… When societies begin to 4.9×59k77619387
80Feb 11, '25Democratic strategist @BriannaWu says Trump has forced an “adult conversation” with his recent remarks on Gaza—and that’s a good thing. “Eventually you’ve got to solve the core pro4.8×58k4516623
81Jan 9, '25Today on Honestly, the UK grooming gangs and the cowardice of the West. @Ayaan and @BindelJ on why they risked their reputations to speak out on the serial rape scandal.4.8×57k45811639
83Oct 2, '24“Anyone who feels down from spending too much time with people in America should come to Israel.” @douglaskmurray shares how impressed he is with the generation of young Israelis w4.3×52k1.2k222118
84Aug 2, '22The Canadian government’s draconian covid policies were motivated far more by politics than science. @rupasubramanya explains:4.2×01.9k59235
85Aug 24, '22"If dissent had been welcomed from the start—which is what science demands—a lot of suffering could have been avoided." Read @MartyMakary on what happens when one doctor is in char3.9×01.8k48992
86Jun 3, '25The list of those in Trump’s inner circle with ties to Qatar is dizzying. Pam Bondi – Attorney General Susie Wiles – Chief of Staff Kash Patel – FBI Director Steve Witkoff – Specia3.9×46k598153101
87Dec 3, '24Campus anti-Zionists are “arguing with Jews who survived the 20th century that they should give up their self-defense… Yemen just had a war in which a quarter [of a] million people3.6×44k689164124
88Dec 12, '24UK Conservative Party leader @KemiBadenoch explains why it’s so important for new immigrants to the UK to adopt Western values. “When people come to a country, they should want to 3.4×41k87916982
89Dec 12, '24“We need to have some courage,” said @KemiBadenoch about addressing the rise of immigration from Muslim countries that do not hold Western values. “This isn’t just about Islam. It 3.4×40k5079462
90Apr 29, '25Batya Ungar-Sargon (@BUngarSargon): Donald Trump was simply asking Harvard to stop doing things against the mission of Harvard—like no more importing students who hate America and 3.4×40k1.4k18669
91Nov 11, '25Senator @JohnFetterman on surviving a stroke and severe depression: “I have emerged as a grateful person.” “As things get more and more polarizing, I’ve lost the taste to call peop3.3×40k2.8k27949
92Mar 13, '25“If you’ve never earned anything in your life, you don’t get to tell people who are struggling what they should think—and call them stupid if they don’t think it.” @AndrewSchulz on3.2×39k5304171
93May 15, '24“I reject the movement that says unless you are for the totality and extreme sort of new random fringe philosophy… you’re out—you’re right wing.” @NellieBowles denounces the new pr3.2×38k5307435
94Mar 4, '25FP columnist @BUngarSargon says she’s never seen a president “stand up for [Americans] so powerfully” as Trump did against Zelensky: “Trump stood up for the American taxpayer again3.0×36k5457630
95May 1, '25“This is not a problem for Israel… But this is a profound problem for America and the rest of the West, that we have people in our midst who glorify in the death cults.” @DouglasKM3.0×35k78114453
96Oct 18, '25Despite now working with them again, @PalmerLuckey has not forgiven or forgotten those who wronged him at Facebook 8 years ago. “I will cover it up. I will literally just let them 2.9×35k46633161
97Jan 9, '25“This multiculturalism model… has given us these grooming gangs. This model has failed.” @Ayaan on how Western leaders ushered in the conditions that led to one of the most appalli2.9×34k49011550
98Oct 2, '24Today on Honestly @DouglasKMurray criticizes the two “completely defunct paradigms” in the West. “Washington, Paris, and London still believe giving Palestinians another state will2.6×31k1.2k270134
99Dec 9, '25Should we legalize assisted suicide? Dr. Lydia Dugdale: “Why should a physician—physicians who have committed to healing the sick, to not killing their patients—why is it that phys2.0×24k3079
100Jan 9, '25Activist @Ayaan on why the British public has turned a blind eye to the UK’s grooming-gangs scandal. “Once you go down that path, you open the door to the issues of immigration, th1.9×23k53611135
101May 6, '25Fox News host @DanaPerino: The Democrats’ big cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental capacity “ruined the Democratic Party—for possibly a generation.”1.7×20k4956430

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