Commentary
Bari Weiss, late of The New York Times opinion pages, was catapulted to celebrity when her letter of resignation from the NY Times went viral in 2020.
In that letter, Weiss chronicled the process of her disillusionment with a newspaper that had jettisoned journalism—the patient uncovering and articulation of facts—for a brittle, frenetic embrace of “an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few.”
Weiss, a sinewy, independent-minded journalist, was brought into the NY Times to expand the stable and political coloration of contributors to its Op-Ed pages.
She left when she realized that the paper had succumbed to a spirit of febrile intolerance that made genuine diversity impossible….