A new university in Austin, Texas, dedicated to free inquiry and the &#8220;fearless pursuit of truth&#8221; is opening applications to its very first freshman class.
The University of Austin (UATX) announced Wednesday in a press release that Texas state officials have awarded the school full university status, meaning it can start accepting students for next fall.
To celebrate the university&#8217;s first class, each of the 100 freshmen who matriculate next year will receive full, four-year scholarships, the school said.
“It is only fitting then that we invest in the next generation of builders, innovators, and creators, who deserve an education steeped in academic freedom and oriented towards the pursuit of wisdom,” UATX President Pano Kanelos said.
The university generated excitement — and some <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/164363/university-austin-uatx-myth-illiberalism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broadsides</a> — in 2021 when its launch was announced by the school&#8217;s founders, including journalist Bari Weiss, historian Niall Ferguson, Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale, and founding president Pano Kanelos, formerly the president of St. John’s College.
Nearly two years later, the university says it has raised nearly $200 million so far from thousands of donors.
More than 500 students have already participated in its programs, and more than 6,000 professors across the country have sought teaching opportunities, the school said.
In December, the school will move to its new campus in downtown Austin.
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&#8220;A university with an uncompromised commitment to the principles of free inquiry and academic freedom has struck a chord with educators, parents, students, and donors,&#8221; the University of Austin said in its release Wednesday.
The curriculum begins with a two-year liberal arts program, followed by a two-year fellowship that is research and practice-driven. Each student will also complete a Polaris Project, an “ambitious four-year project to build, create, or discover something that meets a pressing human need or addresses a social, political, or economic challenge.”
Meanwhile, the University of Austin boasts support from a network of hundreds of businesses as well as tech, political, creative, and academic leaders who the school says are eager to mentor and hire graduates.
The University of Austin says it is &#8220;committed to forging a new generation of American founders.&#8221;
&#8220;We are seeking students characterized by grace, grit, and gratitude, with the calling to build, create, and innovate. We believe that attentiveness to the past is essential to establishing a brighter future. We hold that universities in a democratic polity have a special obligation to cultivate dialogue and foster a commitment to the common good. We affirm that the highest purpose of higher education is the discovery, transmission, and preservation of knowledge, and to fulfill these ends, universities must remain committed to open inquiry, intellectual pluralism, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse,&#8221; the school said.
For years, conservatives have criticized higher education institutions for leaning left. In recent years, parents across the country have expressed frustration with &#8220;woke&#8221; themes in K-12 public schools as well.
In Florida, another higher education project is looking to combat the influence of left-leaning universities as well. At New College in Sarasota, Governor Ron DeSantis <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2023/08/18/governor-ron-desantis-commends-new-college-of-floridas-transformation-under-newly-appointed-board-of-trustees/">appointed</a> seven conservatives to the board earlier this year in an attempt to rid the school of Critical Race Theory and “woke” ideology

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk slammed Bari Weiss on Friday afternoon after she called out his decision to suspend several journalists that had shared information about the location of his private jet.
The suspensions came after Musk announced a new policy change Wednesday after an incident happened involving his child.
Accounts that were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-bans-the-twitter-accounts-of-multiple-major-left-wing-media-figures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> included former Vox left-wing journalist Aaron Rupar, CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan, New York Times reporter Ryan Mac, Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell, The Intercept journalist Micah Lee, and former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann.
“Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation,” Musk said. “This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info. Posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn’t a safety problem, so is ok.”
“Last night, car carrying lil X in LA was followed by crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked car from moving &amp; climbed onto hood,” Musk continued. “Legal action is being taken against Sweeney &amp; organizations who supported harm to my family.”
Weiss responded to the suspensions by <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1603788344470556674" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeting</a>, &#8220;The old regime at Twitter governed by its own whims and biases and it sure looks like the new regime has the same problem.&#8221;
&#8220;I oppose it in both cases. And I think those journalists who were reporting on a story of public importance should be reinstated,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I don&#8217;t need to dwell on how mesmerizing it is to watch those journalists who defended — even celebrated! — Twitter&#8217;s bans under the old regime under the guise of &#8216;safety&#8217; now call it censorship, and say it infringes on freedom of expression,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It did then as it does now.&#8221;
Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603797171572117505?s=20&amp;t=kRpYvqDIJeku84Ld4gRG4w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to Weiss, &#8220;What should the consequence of doxxing someone’s real-time, exact location be?&#8221;
&#8220;Assume your child is at that location, as mine was,&#8221; Musk continued. &#8220;Bari, this is a real question, not rhetorical. What is your opinion?&#8221;
Musk then unloaded on Weiss a short time later, writing: &#8220;Rather than rigorously pursuing truth, you are virtue-signaling to show that you are &#8216;good&#8217; in the eyes of media elite to keep one foot in both worlds.&#8221;

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Comedian Adam Carolla laid into the audience of fellow comedian Bill Maher for applauding a return to normalcy after putting up with two years of broad mitigation efforts — including public masking and lockdowns — to slow the spread of COVID-19.
&#8220;Watching the Bill Maher show. Now you p****ies clap when Bill talks about getting back to normal. Shut the f*** up and admit you were wrong,&#8221; Carolla, whose new show &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/adam-carolla-truth-yeller">Adam Carolla: Truth Yeller</a>&#8221; recently debuted at The Daily Wire, tweeted.
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Watching the Bill Maher show. Now you pussies clap when Bill talks about getting back to normal. Shut the fuck up and admit you were wrong
— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) <a href="https://twitter.com/adamcarolla/status/1487686642106179585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Maher sparked outrage from a number of liberal commentators when he and former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss declared themselves &#8220;<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/maher-blasts-democrats-for-pro-science-claims-a-lot-of-what-they-do-has-nothing-to-do-with-science/">done with COVID</a>&#8221; — and Weiss went so far as to claim that a number of liberals she knew felt the same way but were afraid to say so publicly.
CNN anchor Brianna Keilar used Maher and Weiss as a jumping off point to accuse Fox News of spreading misinformation about vaccines.
&#8220;Sure would be nice if COVID were done with us too,&#8221; Keilar said. &#8220;Done with hospitals, done with the doctors and the nurses who are stretched to their breaking points in many cases. We are not, though, done. We’re not back to normal. And that is because so many people are still actively choosing not to be vaccinated. So I get her outrage. I’m not sure I get the direction of it.&#8221;
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Why is Rupert Murdoch, one of the first to get vaccinated, allowing anti-science BS on the air? It is killing people. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RollTheTape?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RollTheTape</a> <a href="https://t.co/aaoly6AwyK">pic.twitter.com/aaoly6AwyK</a>
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) <a href="https://twitter.com/brikeilarcnn/status/1486347243003297794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Whoopi Goldberg lashed out at Maher during a broadcast of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-dare-you-be-so-flippant-whoopi-goldberg-unloads-on-bill-maher-for-being-over-covid-19-paranoia">reported</a>:
<blockquote>&#8220;I think he’s forgetting that people are still at risk who cannot get vaccinated. People who can’t get the — little kids under the age of five, or people with health conditions,&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/how-dare-you-talk-about-what-a-fetus-wants-whoopi-goldberg-unloads-on-supreme-court-over-abortion-case/">Goldberg</a> added. &#8220;How dare you be so flippant, man! There’s still people that —&#8221;
&#8220;They act like they’re over it,&#8221; co-host Joy Behar added with a shrug. “Like they’re out of a relationship, ‘Oh, I’m over it, I don’t feel like seeing him anymore.'&#8221;</blockquote>
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&#8220;How dare you!&#8221; Whoopi ridiculously pops off against Bill Maher for anti-mask jokes, tell him to say out of society. Sara Haines joins in by saying masks will be a permanent &#8220;new normal&#8221; like airport security after 9/11. &#8220;I may never &#8230; feel comfortable without a mask.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/AHjJcKR79c">pic.twitter.com/AHjJcKR79c</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1485652968913391617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Maher has become increasingly critical of his own party in recent months, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/560384-bill-maher-slams-tech-giants-for-limiting-covid-19-info-ivermectin-isnt-a">taking repeated shots</a> at everything from the left&#8217;s criticism of the lab leak theory to woke culture — a move that he says was simply rooted in his desire to tell the truth and has had the unintentional side-effect of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberals-have-their-head-up-their-a-bill-maher-says-telling-the-truth-made-him-a-hero-at-fox-news">making him a &#8220;hero&#8221;</a> at Fox News.
&#8220;People sometimes say to me, You don’t, you didn’t, you didn’t used to make fun of the left as much. Yeah, because they didn’t give me so much to work with,&#8221; Maher said Friday, arguing that allegiance to politics over sanity had led to liberals having &#8220;their heads ups their a**.&#8221;
&#8220;The oath of office I took was to comedy. And if you do goofy sh**, wherever you are in this spectrum, I’m going to make fun of you because that’s where the gold is,&#8221; Maher explained.

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Adam Carolla Blasts Bill Maher Audience After Clapping For Return To Normal: ‘Shut The F*** Up And Admit You Were Wrong’

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Commentator and podcast host Dave Rubin discussed recent comments Bari Weiss and Bill Maher made about COVID-19 regulations.
Weiss, a former New York Times columnist, recently appeared on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” discussing the pandemic&#8217;s negative effect on children and society.
“I’m done with COVID. I&#8217;m done, ” she <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/01/24/im-done-with-covid-bari-weiss-on-bill-maher-sparks-uproar/">said</a>, describing how she went along with all of the guidance during the early stages of the outbreak. 
“I sprayed the Pringles cans that I bought at the grocery store, stripped my clothes off because I thought COVID would be on my clothes. &#8230;I watched ‘Tiger King.’ I got to the end of Spotify. We all did it,” she told Maher. 
“And then we were told &#8230; ‘You get the vaccine and you get back to normal.’ And we haven’t gotten back to normal. And it’s ridiculous at this point … If you believe the science, you will look at the data that we did not have two years ago. You will find out that cloth masks do not do anything. You will realize that you can show your vaccine passport at a restaurant and still be asymptomatic and carrying Omicron. And you will realize most importantly that this is going to be remembered by the younger generation as a catastrophic moral crime,” she went on, noting the harmful impact of the pandemic on young people.
Weiss added that “it’s a pandemic of bureaucracy.”
Rubin noted how he is friendly with Weiss, and what she is saying is “right,” but Maher and Weiss have been going along with the bureaucracy that they are now criticizing. 
Rubin said, “This is what liberals do with everything. It’s like you guys create all of the problems and then for the last two years, as she pointed out, ‘oh, there are these good progressives and liberals that don’t want to be called Trumpers,&#8217;” he said, adding, “she and especially Bill Maher — you guys have run around calling the rest of us racist and backwards and religious freaks and zealots and all of those things, so…if you guys get everything wrong for two years…and then you get it roughly right… then what is it that we do?&#8221;
“If your conclusion is still, ‘okay vote for Democrats,’ if your conclusion is, ‘okay give more tax money to the bureaucracy that you’re attacking,’ if you see the road and you take the road and you understand what’s happening and then there’s the end of the road, and you just kind of look back and you go, ‘well I can’t get to the end of the road,’” he said, noting the “end of the road” is changing one&#8217;s voting habits.
He added, “yes, maybe conservatives are conserving something — freedom — which is what liberals are supposed to want to conserve.”
Rubin went on to point out how it&#8217;s good for people on the Left to &#8220;wake up,&#8221; but there is a conflict when liberals don&#8217;t change their voting habits.
“If at the end you’re still for the Democrats, the people that are locking you down, if at the end, you still think all the conservatives who you run around [and] call racist and everything else, are wrong about everything, then what is a good liberal at this point?” asked Ruben.
“…at the end if your conclusions are to vote for the very things that you endlessly rail against, that are coming for your free speech, that are bringing in this neo-racism, that are locking you down&#8230;just because you spend so much time calling the other guys racist, then perhaps, perhaps you need a mirror,&#8221; he noted.
Rubin discussed the reasons that Democrats stay in their political party: the fact that they are in support of abortion, and they don’t align with religious viewpoints. 
Rubin tweeted his thoughts on the subject, summing up the points made on his show:
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“If your conclusions are to vote for the very things that you rail against…that are coming for your free speech, that are bringining in this neo-racism, that are locking you down…then perhaps you need a mirror.”<a href="https://twitter.com/rumblevideo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rumblevideo</a>: <a href="https://t.co/Ot3EAWt838">https://t.co/Ot3EAWt838</a><a href="https://t.co/OKfkZdEiVz">https://t.co/OKfkZdEiVz</a> <a href="https://t.co/hk4nTsbmus">pic.twitter.com/hk4nTsbmus</a>
&mdash; Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1485715025083916297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Questions for <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bariweiss</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/billmaher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@billmaher</a>. 
Do you regret voting for Biden?
What non-woke Dems do you support? (The guy sitting next to Bari on Real Time has pronouns in bio.)
Are you glad Youngkin won Virginia?
Will you support <a href="https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovRonDeSantis</a> if he runs for president? <a href="https://t.co/KWZx7Z8kCo">https://t.co/KWZx7Z8kCo</a>
&mdash; Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1485696473757069332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Dave Rubin Reacts To Bari Weiss And Bill Maher: ‘Perhaps You Need A Mirror’

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Comedian Bill Maher, host of HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher,&#8221; repeatedly slammed the political left during his show on Friday for its handling of the pandemic while Florida has managed to have better outcomes than many other states while also having significantly fewer restrictions.
Maher made the remarks during a panel discussion with Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and liberal journalist Bari Weiss.
&#8220;I asked for the COVID deaths by state, this is per 100,000 people,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;The worst is Mississippi. My home state [of] New Jersey, four, fourth worst. New York, sixth worst. West Virginia and Massachusetts are 10 and 11, right together. Could there be two states who are more unalike than West Virginia and Massachusetts? And the poster boy for keeping s*** open was Florida, they&#8217;re down at 17. So New York and New Jersey did worse than Florida.&#8221;
&#8220;We did worse because we&#8217;re a densely populated hub of international travel,&#8221; Torres claimed.
&#8220;Florida is home to all the old people in America,&#8221; Maher fired back. &#8220;What this is saying … Florida, like, stayed open. I mean, I was just in Florida. I&#8217;ve been there a few times since this started. The atmosphere is just different. I&#8217;m not moving to Florida, I&#8217;m not promoting Florida. I&#8217;m just saying <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-lashes-out-at-critics-after-being-caught-in-florida-republicans-are-mad-they-cant-date-me">AOC just went</a> to Florida and had a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-caught-partying-in-miami-without-mask-rules-for-thee-but-not-for-me">good time</a> without a mask [on].”
&#8220;I&#8217;m just saying I&#8217;ve been to Florida, the atmosphere was just night and day from California, which was gloomy, and everything was the Andromeda Strain out there,&#8221; Maher added. &#8220;And you went to Florida, and I&#8217;m just saying, yes, there are different factors &#8230; but basically, it&#8217;s like they stayed open and went on with life, and they didn&#8217;t do a hell of a lot worse, and maybe did better.&#8221;
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“AOC went to Florida and had a good time without a mask hugging people.” <a href="https://twitter.com/billmaher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillMaher</a> points out open Florida has done better on COVID than NY: “The poster boy for keeping shit open was Florida. They are down at 17. So New York and New Jersey did worse than Florida.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealTime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RealTime</a> <a href="https://t.co/qRo2bejUMr">pic.twitter.com/qRo2bejUMr</a>
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Weiss, a former New York Times writer, also slammed the pandemic restrictions, saying that she was &#8220;done with COVID.&#8221;
&#8220;We were told you get the vaccine, you get the vaccine and you get back to normal. And we haven&#8217;t gotten back to normal. And it&#8217;s ridiculous at this point,&#8221; Weiss <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-maher-sonia-sotomayor-coronavirous-aoc-kyrie-irving">said</a>. &#8220;I know that so many of my liberal and progressive friends are with me on this and they do not want to say it out loud because they are scared to be called anti-vaxxed or to be called science denial or to be smeared as a Trumper.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry,&#8221; she continued, &#8220;but if you believe the science, you will look at the data that we did not have two years ago and you will find out that cloth masks do not do anything. You will realize that you can show your vaccine passport at a restaurant and still be asymptomatic in carrying Omicron. And you realize, most importantly, that this will be remembered by the younger generation as a catastrophic moral crime.&#8221;
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno – Season 22

Bill Maher: ‘New York, New Jersey Did Worse Than Florida,’ Florida ‘Stayed Open,’ ‘Went On With Life’

As former New York Times editor Bari Weiss warned that narrow media coverage and rampant self-censorship have created a world gone mad, CNN’s Brian Stelter interrupted her to ask, ”Who&#8217;s the people stopping the conversation?”
“You write there are tens of millions of Americans who aren&#8217;t on the hard-Left or the hard-Right, who feel the world has gone mad. So, in what ways has the world gone mad?” Stelter asked, airing a part of a pre-recorded interview he conducted with Weiss for Sunday’s episode of “Reliable Sources.” Weiss replied by citing a litany of media bias, blackouts, and sins of omission:
<blockquote>When you have the chief reporter on the beat of COVID for The New York Times talking about how questioning or pursuing the question of the lab leak is racist, the world has gone mad.
When you&#8217;re not able to say out loud and in public that there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad.
When we&#8217;re not allowed to acknowledge that rioting is rioting, and it is bad — and that silence is not violence, but violence is violence — the world has gone mad.
When we&#8217;re not able to say that Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop is a story worth pursuing, the world has gone mad. When, in the name of progress, young school children as young as kindergarten are being separated in public schools because of their race, and that is called “progress” rather than “segregation,” the world has gone mad.
There are dozens of examples that I could share with you and with your viewers, but —</blockquote>
“And you often say, you say ‘allowed,’” Stelter said, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xR0eCp3ToM">speaking over top of Weiss</a>. “You say ‘we&#8217;re not allowed, we&#8217;re not able,’” Stelter continued <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=manterruption&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8">manterrupting</a> Weiss, who yielded mid-thought.
”Who&#8217;s the people stopping the conversation?” Stelter asked, stopping the conversation. “Who are they?” he asked, smirking.
“People that work at networks, frankly, like the one I&#8217;m speaking on right now,” Weiss responded fearlessly.
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Stelter minimized the effectiveness of network censorship, saying that “every story you mentioned” is “all over the internet.”
Weiss responded that reporters know reporting on “an increasing number of subjects that have been deemed third-rail by the mainstream institutions — and increasingly by some of the tech companies — will lead to reputational damage, perhaps you losing your job, your children sometimes being demonized, as well.”
“It would be delusional to claim otherwise,” Weiss said.
She said each powerful example of cancel culture inculcates “a kind of internal self-censorship” among people in all professions, and not just journalism. Colleagues seeing this think to themselves, “If he&#8217;s been canceled for that, what does that mean for me? I might as well shut up. I might as well practice doublethink in the freest society in the history of the world.”
“What&#8217;s going on is the transformation of these sense-making institutions of American life. It&#8217;s the news media, it&#8217;s the publishing house, it is the Hollywood studios, it&#8217;s our universities, and they are narrowing in a radical way, what&#8217;s acceptable to say, and what isn&#8217;t,” she said.
“It’s disinformation by omission,” Weiss concluded.
Weiss, who is <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-bari-weiss-the-liberal-other-liberals-love-to-hate-1.9089367">not conservative</a> on numerous issues, resigned as opinion editor of The New York Times last July after seeing the horizon of permissible discourse narrow. In a <a href="https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter">resignation letter</a> that quickly went viral, Weiss <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gadfly-bari-weiss-quits-new-york-times-savages-them-if-you-speak-your-mind-youll-be-hung-out-to-dry">wrote</a> that the Times’ leadership believes “that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.” She added that her colleagues treated history as “one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.”
Stelter, who mentioned he’s a subscriber to her <a href="https://bariweiss.substack.com/">Substack newsletter</a>, implied that economic incentives influenced her decision. “I&#8217;ve seen it reported that you&#8217;re making a lot more money than you ever did in [The] New York Times,&#8221; he said.
“I&#8217;ve made a lot more money than I ever thought was possible in journalism,” she said. She noted that although she has not restricted any of her material behind a paywall, so many numerous loyal readers have contributed to her work financially that she is about to hire her fifth employee to write for the newsletter.
“I&#8217;ve never felt freer or more excited about my work than I do right now,” she said.
Ultimately, Stelter interrupted Weiss again to prematurely end the video of their conversation, telling his audience, “You can hear the entire conversation on my very own Reliable Sources Podcast.”
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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In an <a href="https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/my-conversation-with-winston-marshall">interview</a> with former New York Times opinion columnist, Bari Weiss, guitarist Winston Marshall revealed that his Christian faith played an integral role in his recent decision to leave his phenomenally successful band, Mumford &amp; Sons.
As the Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mumford-sons-guitarist-announces-hes-leaving-band-to-speak-his-mind-on-political-issues">reported</a>, a woke mob tried to cancel Marshall in March after he praised “Unmasked,” a book that documents Antifa’s political extremism. At the time, Marshall apologized and took time off to “examine [his] blind spots.”
But last week, Marshall retracted that statement and announced he was leaving the group he helped found in 2007, saying, “I could remain and continue to self-censor, but it will erode my sense of integrity.&#8221;
In his conversation with Weiss, released Thursday, Marshall explained how prayer reinforced his resolve to leave.
“I was talking a lot to my mom and dad with whom I&#8217;m very close and I think who love me and understand me better than anyone and could understand the complexity of the situation,” Marshall told Weiss. “I was praying a hell of a lot.”
He then said he was spending significant time in the Catholic Church near his home in London, and how that led to him to feel he must retract the apology he offered months ago.
“My faith has played a big part in this period of my life and actually the week before making the final decision, I was pretty much planted in my local Catholic Church around the corner from the house,” he said. “It&#8217;s a bloody big moment for me. That&#8217;s probably why after a while, the apology was bothering me like it did, particularly that I&#8217;d felt like I&#8217;d been participating in that lie that we already talked about. I couldn&#8217;t square those things in my conscience.”
Marshall then described how the faith modeled by Soviet dissident and Christian Alexandr Solzhenitsyn particularly impacted him.
“[Solzhenitsyn] talks about the line between good and evil cutting through the center of every human heart. And that is lost in discourse today,” Marshall observed. “I think a lot of people say, ‘oh, he&#8217;s a good guy’ or ‘f*** that guy, he’s a bad guy.’ Instead of accepting what I think is a Christian value, the idea that everyone is fallen, it’s back to the binary black and white, good guys, bad guys, goodies, baddies.”
Solzhenitsyn wasn’t the only religious thinker influencing Marshall, however. The 33-year-old Grammy winner also jokingly referenced Kanye West.
“Well, if I can quote the great American theologian of all time, Kanye West, he said, &#8216;Fear God and you will fear nothing else,&#8217;” Marshall laughed. “And I love that because for me, I do fear God. And I think it&#8217;s true. That if you fear God sincerely, then you won&#8217;t fear worldly issues, worldly problems.”
He concluded, “We&#8217;re all fallen and recognizing that we make mistakes, bring back a bit of grace and good faith.”

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Actress Gina Carano responded this week to her recent dismissal by Disney after she tweeted something that critics claimed was controversial by saying that she was stunned to learn of the outrage online and that people were claiming that what she posted was anti-Semitic.
“I was in utter shock and confusion when certain people said it was antisemitic,” Carano <a href="https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/gina-carano-and-crowd-sourced-mccarthyism">told</a> Bari Weiss. “Then, as I went to take it down, I noticed that the image was not the same as the one people were referencing. I was honestly confused: should I take it down, or leave it up? I still don&#8217;t know the answer to that question, because taking it down only makes the mob attack you more.”
Weiss noted that people online were not only pointing to a tweet that Carano posted that compared the current political environment in the U.S. to Nazi Germany, but they also had found an image that Carano posted in December that had &#8220;a striking resemblance to an infamous East London mural called &#8216;Freedom for Humanity&#8217; that Jeremy Corbyn defended from destruction.&#8221;
The image showed several old men sitting around a monopoly table that represented power over different industries around the world.
&#8220;To me, at first glance, that image looks as if it’s a visual representation of the &#8216;Protocols of the Elders of Zion,'&#8221; Weiss, who is Jewish, continued. &#8220;When old men, money, a globe and a secret meeting are in one picture, my mind screams &#8216;Jews!&#8217; But it seems that, to a lot of people, it genuinely does not, perhaps because there are no explicitly Jewish symbols.&#8221;
“The image for me was a statement that people need to stand together and rise up, stop being so manipulated by the powers that believe they know what&#8217;s best for you and play games with our lives,” Carano said. “My heart has only ever had ultimate respect and love for the Jewish community.”
Following the controversy, Lucasfilm, which is owned by Disney, said in a statement:
<blockquote>Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.</blockquote>
“That was heart-breaking, but I didn&#8217;t want to take away from the hard work of everyone who worked on the project, so I said ok,&#8221; Carano told Weiss. &#8220;That was the last time I was contacted about any type of public statement or apology from Lucasfilm. I found out through social media, like everyone else, that I had been fired.&#8221;
Weiss continued:
<blockquote>Gina Carano got fired. Meantime, Ice Cube tweeted out, among other troubling things, the original London mural and it doesn’t appear to have hurt his reputation beyond the Jewish community. John Cusack tweets unmistakeable antisemitic conspiracies and still gets cast.
Chelsea Handler, Jameela Jamil, and Jessica Chastain shared a Farrakhan video; P Diddy hosted the prominent antisemite for a July Fourth day address; and all of these celebrities are thriving. By the looks of it, Mel Gibson has had a very busy Covid-19, which suggests that leftist politics isn’t the only thing that grants you protection in Hollywood. Too big to cancel?</blockquote>
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ben Shapiro defended Carano in a statement to Weiss, saying, “I know what antisemitism looks like, being one of the more prominent kippah-wearing people out there. This doesn’t chart. I don’t like the meme, especially given its origins. But antisemitism, like racism — and contrary to the NYT’s executive editor’s dictum — requires intent. Gina obviously didn’t have any such intent.”
“Gina isn’t antisemitic. Period. This meme is being ‘resurfaced’ as a post-facto justification for an unjustifiable cancellation,” Shapiro said. “Gina wasn’t aware of the origins of the original picture, and was devastated to hear about it, just as she has been devastated by the absurd and bad faith contention that she is antisemitic in any way.”

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Former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss says America&#8217;s &#8220;paper of record&#8221; is making editorial decisions that alienate “half of the country” because it fears being canceled by an irate mob.
Weiss, who resigned in July after former Editorial Page editor James Bennet was fired amid criticism for running an op-ed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), said Twitter has become the paper’s “ultimate editor.”
“My boss got fired for running an op-ed by a sitting U.S. senator,” said Weiss, appearing Friday on Bill Maher&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time.&#8221; “Now, you might say that Tom Cotton is detestable, that you disagree with him, but I don’t want to live in a world where the views of half of the country can’t be heard in the paper of record. And that’s, I fear, where we’re headed.&#8221;
“In order to do our job well, writers and editors, we need to have a level of bravery and thick skin and fearlessness,” she said. “And when you are living in fear of an online mob, you know, all it takes is a dozen people to repeat a lie about you — that you’re a racist, that you’re a transphobe, that you’re a bigot — for that lie to become true and that’s extremely dangerous.”
Weiss said on the HBO show that the purpose of her resignation letter was to air objections to the “growing culture of illiberalism” at the paper.
“Thomas and I, and you, Bill, we’re used to criticism,” she said. “Criticism is kosher in the work that we do. Criticism’s great. What cancel culture is about is not criticism. It is about punishment. It is about making a person radioactive. It is about taking away their job. It’s not just about punishing the sinner, it’s not just about punishing the person for being insufficiently pure.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s about a sort of secondary boycott of people who would deign to speak to that person or appear on a platform with that person,&#8221; Weiss said. “Politics has come to be people’s almost religious identity. That’s an enormous problem because what it’s meant is the collapse of moderates. It’s meant the collapse of the center and the retribalization of this country.”
In her open letter addressed to New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger in July, Weiss said the paper was condoning of “constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views” and an environment where she said, “self-censorship has become the norm.”
Weiss said she had taken endless abuse for her views, writing, “ … some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly ‘inclusive’ one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still, other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.”
To the publisher, she said:  “I do not understand how you have allowed this kind of behavior to go on inside your company in full view of the paper’s entire staff and the public. And I certainly can’t square how you and other Times leaders have stood by while simultaneously praising me in private for my courage. Showing up for work as a centrist at an American newspaper should not require bravery.”

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Liberal comedian Bill Maher has never been a friend to leftist cancel culture and once again condemned it Friday on his HBO show &#8220;Real Time.&#8221;
Inviting on former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/could-bari-weiss-bring-a-legal-case-against-the-new-york-times-guy-benson-suggests-it-could-be-possible">resigned from the paper</a> after claiming she was abused for daring to consider other opinions, Maher discussed how baffled he was by the blowback from the recent Harper&#8217;s Letter, an anti-cancel culture screed signed by 153 people, mostly academics and writers.
&#8220;As a guy who did a show called &#8216;Politically Incorrect&#8217; and another called &#8216;Real Time,&#8217; thank you, because we need a pushback on cancel culture,&#8221; said Maher. &#8220;What strikes me about it is the pushback is coming from liberals, and almost anyone who signed this letter is a liberal!&#8221;
Bari Weiss described cancel culture as being less about criticism and more about &#8220;punishment&#8221; for people who do not ascribe to every cornerstone of left-wing political and social thought.
&#8220;We&#8217;re used to criticism. Criticism is kosher in the work that we do,&#8221; said Weiss, as reported by <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510115-bari-weiss-rip-cancel-culture-as-social-murder-on-bill-maher-show">The Hill</a>. &#8220;Criticism is great. What cancel culture is about is not criticism. It is about punishment. It is about making a person radioactive. It is about taking away their job. The writer Jonathan Rauch [of The Atlantic] called it &#8216;social murder.&#8217; And I think that&#8217;s right.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not just about punishing the sinner, it&#8217;s not just about punishing the person for being insufficiently pure. It&#8217;s about this sort of secondary boycott of people who would deign to speak to that person or appear on a platform with that person,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And we see just very obviously where that kind of politics gets us. If conversation with people that we disagree with becomes impossible, what is the way that we solve conflict? It&#8217;s violence.&#8221;
In her letter of resignation, Weiss alleged that The New York Times fostered a culture in which anyone who so much as tolerated dissenting viewpoints was subjected to professional and social ostracization.
“Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gadfly-bari-weiss-quits-new-york-times-savages-them-if-you-speak-your-mind-youll-be-hung-out-to-dry">wrote Weiss</a>. “As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.”
Immediately after the show, Marlow Stern of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-who-said-the-n-word-on-tv-decries-cancel-culture-with-bari-weiss-and-thomas-chatterton-williams">The Daily Beast</a> said that Maher was speaking from a place of privilege, neglecting the <a href="https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1288765465880231937?s=20">many non-privileged</a> individuals whom leftists have canceled.
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Last week, opinion editor Bari Weiss resigned from The New York Times, alleging that the newspaper has fostered a culture in which anyone who so much as tolerates dissenting viewpoints is subjected to professional and social ostracization.
&#8220;Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gadfly-bari-weiss-quits-new-york-times-savages-them-if-you-speak-your-mind-youll-be-hung-out-to-dry">wrote Weiss</a> in her scathing resignation letter. &#8220;As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.&#8221;
Speaking on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;MediaBuzz&#8221; on Sunday, contributor and Town Hall editor Guy Benson <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/07/19/fox-media-panelist-anticipates-legal-trouble-nyt-over-abused">said that Weiss may</a> actually have a legal case against The New York Times.
<blockquote>It was an absolutely devastating resignation letter. It sounds like she has the receipts, so-to-speak, in terms of Slack conversations inside the Times newsroom, and there was more than a slight hint that there might be some sort of legal action coming the Times&#8217; way, based on the way she was treated. She talked about a hostile work environment.
But I think more broadly speaking, this goes to an institution, The New York Times, in crisis. Howie, for years the New York Times was a very liberal newspaper, and it is now becoming an illiberal newspaper where you have a left-wing mob in the newsroom dictating what ideas make them feel safe or unsafe and, therefore, can or cannot be discussed or published on the even opinion pages of the Times.</blockquote>
In her letter, Weiss even hinted about being subject to anti-Semitism by New York Times staff.
&#8220;They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I learned to brush off comments about how I’m writing about the Jews again,'&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Still, other New York Times employees publically smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action.&#8221;
After Weiss departed from her job with The New York Times, Andrew Sullivan of New York Magazine announced his own departure, alleging a lack of ideological diversity.
&#8220;A critical mass of the staff and management at New York Magazine and Vox Media no longer want to associate with me, and, in a time of ever-tightening budgets, I’m a luxury item they don’t want to afford,&#8221; wrote Sullivan. &#8220;And that’s entirely their prerogative. They seem to believe, and this is increasingly the orthodoxy in mainstream media, that any writer not actively committed to <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-theory/">critical theory</a> in questions of race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity is actively, physically harming co-workers merely by existing in the same virtual space. Actually <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/andrew-sullivan-you-say-you-want-a-revolution.html">attacking</a>, and even <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/02/we-all-live-on-campus-now.html">mocking</a>, critical theory’s ideas and methods, as I have done <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/03/is-intersectionality-a-religion.html">continually</a> in <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/andrew-sullivan-is-there-still-room-for-debate.html">this space</a>, is therefore out of sync with the values of Vox Media. That, to the best of my understanding, is why I’m out of here.&#8221;
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Popular radio host Rush Limbaugh ripped The New York Times after former opinion editor Bari Weiss left the newspaper abruptly, citing years of alleged public bullying from fellow employees.
Weiss announced her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gadfly-bari-weiss-quits-new-york-times-savages-them-if-you-speak-your-mind-youll-be-hung-out-to-dry">resignation</a> in an open letter to NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger on Tuesday. Limbaugh read sections of the letter on air Tuesday, calling it “fascinating” and “a very teachable moment.”
In the letter, Weiss says that the NYT’s editorial decisions are directed to a large degree based on reactions from Twitter users. The social media mob has even influenced the paper’s personnel decisions, such as in the case of James Bennet, Weiss’ predecessor. Bennet was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-issues-an-apology-for-publishing-tom-cottons-op-ed">reprimanded</a> by NYT leadership after publishing an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html">op-ed</a> written by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), and later <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/business/media/james-bennet-resigns-nytimes-op-ed.html">resigned</a>.
Limbaugh called Weiss’ revelation a “profundity” that “is gonna be our ultimate salvation.”
“Half of Twitter is robots. The other half of Twitter is genuine Looney Tune insanasonics (sic). They are people that you don’t know. They hide behind the cloak of anonymity. They are human debris in many instances,” the conservative radio host said, according to a <a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/07/14/new-york-times-editor-resigns-after-bullying-by-colleagues/">transcript</a> of his show. “But journalism’s gotten so lazy that Twitter has become a stand-in for national public opinion. I’m so sick of it. I’ve been sick of it for I don’t know how long.”
Weiss said that some of her views that run contrary to the dominant beliefs in the newsroom made her “the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist.”
“The New York Times has become the epitome of tyranny and authoritarianism,” Limbaugh continued, referencing a claim by Weiss that the NYT’s journalistic ethics have become a reflection of the mob mentality that dominates spaces on Twitter. “You’re not allowed to have any other point of view if you read the paper. You must conform to the opinions in the news stories or you’re not even welcome as a subscriber.”
“Can you believe this? The New York Times op-ed editor writing about becoming a victim of the mob, which is the staff at the paper,” Limbaugh said.
The host continued:
<blockquote>You know, I gotta tell you something, folks. I’ve about had it up to here with the sanctimonious nature of these people to begin with. Okay. So they’re gonna put words on a piece of paper and they’re gonna sell it, and you would think that it is the only thing that is saving us from ultimate death. I guess, you know, there’s nothing wrong with thinking what you do is really crucially important, but this has gotten so far out of hand.
They’re protected. You can’t investigate them. They can investigate you. They can destroy you anytime they want. You cannot investigate them. You cannot find out who they are. It doesn’t matter who they are. They must remain free and unencumbered to do anal exams on whatever they want.</blockquote>

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