Honestly with Bari Weiss

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com On Tuesday, The Free Press had a major scoop: The State Department is launching its biggest shake-up in decades in an effort spearheaded by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The reorganization, done with the help of Elon Musk and DOGE, looks to eliminate 132 agency offices dedicated to efforts like advancing democracy and co...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com In the past few weeks, I have done two Honestly episodes on religion— one asking , “Do we need a religious revival?” and then a follow-up conversation with Ross Douthat asking how people who grew up in the secular West can actually find faith. Today, I have the last installment of this intellectual and religious inquiry, a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com If you look closely, you can argue that we’re starting to see the beginnings of a religious revival. Or at least, people (including young people) seriously reconsidering religion. Now, even if they don’t believe in God, they think that the practice of religion, like keeping Shabbat or going to church every Sunday, has clea...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com This episode of Honestly with Bari Weiss is presented by FIJI Water. In 2025 it seems like there are two types of people. There are those who are insanely diligent about health—the people who learn everything there is to know about ingredients and food labels, the people who run every beauty or cleaning product through the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Depending on who you talk to, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen are either the swampiest of swamp creatures—the epitome of all that is wrong with political journalism, suction eels on the hull of the good ship of state—or, alternatively, two of the most interesting, successful entrepreneurs in the new media landscape. In 2006, V...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com John McWhorter is one of the greatest living experts on the English language. He’s a professor of linguistics at Columbia, a columnist at The New York Times , and a Broadway obsessive. He once told me that he couldn’t do an interview because he was rehearsing a cabaret show for his bungalow colony. It sounded like a scene...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com A few years ago Jay Bhattacharya was an obscure Stanford professor—a medical doctor who also had a PhD in economics. Then Covid hit, the lockdowns began, and “Doctor Jay”—as he is sometimes known—became a pariah in the medical community. That’s because, along with colleagues from Harvard and Oxford, Jay questioned whether...

The morning of March 8, Mahmoud Khalil was detained at his apartment in New York City. Khalil is a 30-year-old Algerian citizen. He was born in Syria and is of Palestinian descent. He came to this country on a student visa in 2022, married an American citizen in 2023, became a green card holder in 2024, and finished his graduate studies at Columbia University in December 2024. Mahmoud was also the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are the two most important liberal journalists working in the legacy press today—Ezra at The New York Times , and Derek at The Atlantic . Although they insist they’ll never go into politics themselves, they are offering Democrats a path back to power. To get out of the political wilderness, th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Each one of us has a different conception story. For some parents, it’s a romantic night out, maybe over a candlelit dinner. For others, like Bari and Nellie, it involves a trip to a fertility clinic in a mall that doesn’t even validate parking. And of course, for some it’s a long, challenging, emotional process involving...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com You may have never heard of Sarah Wynn-Williams, but that’s about to change. She’s written a memoir about her nearly seven years at Facebook, the company that has since rebranded as Meta. In doing so, she’s become the company’s highest-ranking whistleblower. Until around 72 hours ago, the book’s existence itself was a secr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com For the past 50 years, to be smart and sophisticated also meant being secular. The New Atheists—Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris—dominated intellectual circles, scoffing at faith as an outdated superstition, a social illness to be eradicated. And for a time, they seemed to be winning. In 1972, 90 percent o...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Alex Karp is many things: a cross-country skier, a long-range shooter, and a tai chi expert who might be the only man alive who knows how to wield a sword but doesn’t know how to drive. He’s also a collector of extremely prestigious degrees. His PhD thesis was titled “Aggression in the Life-World: The Extension of Parsons’...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Have you ever gone on the internet and stumbled onto this combo of words, or perhaps non-words?: Dogecoin . Shiba Inu . Hawkcoin . Bored Ape NFT . If that sounded like gibberish, don’t worry—we’ll explain. And also, time to start learning, because these terms come out of a new financial ecosystem—the world of crypto, a mar...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Over the past year, right-wing parties across the West have been sweeping elections: Donald Trump in the United States, Javier Milei in Argentina, Giorgia Meloni in Italy, Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, and now, Germany. On Sunday, 83 percent of Germans went to the polls—the highest turnout since the Cold War. The Christian...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com I’m sure you remember the images of Kfir and Ariel Bibas. They were just nine months and four years old when they were kidnapped by Hamas along with their mother, Shiri, on October 7, 2023. It was impossible to look at the image of her shielding them, her eyes full of terror, the children clinging to her, and not think of...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Trump’s inauguration is right around the corner, and there is so much to cover about the new White House. In the coming weeks, we’ll have key figures in the Trump administration on Honestly to talk about what they are planning. But, we all know that if Trump 2.0 is anything like Trump 1.0, there are going to be a lot of tw...