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Honestly with Bari Weiss

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Honestly with Bari Weiss

@thehonestlypod

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

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Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Dec 9, 2025
Should 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 physicians should be the agents of death?” David Hoffman (@ethicsoncall): “There are a great many
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Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Oct 22, 2025
Anduril 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 who is being reviewed for sexual misconduct. You are innocent, but they don’t know that. There is
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Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Dec 10, 2024
Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) says he attended “absolutely horrifying” meetings where Biden’s government vowed to take “complete control” over AI technology: “They basically said AI is going to be a game of 2 or 3 big companies working closely with the government… We’re going to
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Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Oct 12, 2025
“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 narcoterrorist cartel [running Venezuela]... I believe the Venezuelan people share my position
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Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Oct 15, 2024
He 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 democrats who are casting their ballot for Trump. thefp.pub/3A0lCHw
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Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Sep 30, 2025
“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 the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “Are the Israelis perfect? No—but that’s what they’re up against.”
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Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Jan 9, 2025
“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 was absolutely sickened and appalled—and that cowardice remains today.” @bindelj on the “moral
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Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Nov 11, 2025
Senator @JohnFetterman: “Being devoted to Israel is becoming increasingly incompatible with being a proud Democrat.”
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Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Oct 2, 2024
“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 the Jewish state survives and the Jewish people survive is a triumph of possibility over
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Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Nov 26, 2024
WSJ 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 observer.” After finally meeting him a couple weeks ago, she told herself: “Honey, your intuition was
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Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Dec 12, 2024
Despite 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 equality. It is not even promoting the well-being of minorities. It is a way for the left to
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Honestly with Bari Weiss
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May 28, 2024
.@JerrySeinfeld on visiting Israel after October 7: “The most powerful experience of my life.” Listen to his full, wide-ranging conversation with @bariweiss now: thefp.pub/3X4ifZv
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Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Nov 11, 2025
Senator @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 people names. I just want to find a way forward…We have forgotten that we need each other.”
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Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Jun 3, 2025
Qatar 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 Cup. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The FP’s @FrannieBlock on Qatar’s growing and pernicious
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