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Honestly with Bari Weiss
by Bari Weiss
The most interesting conversations in American life happen in private. This show brings them out of the closet. Stories no one else is telling and conversations with the most fascinating people in the country, every week from *The Free Press*, hosted by former *New York Times* and *Wall Street Journal* reporter Bari Weiss. www.thefp.com
Episodes
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How the New Middle East Was Made | Bari Weiss and Simon Sebag Montefiore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Last week I had the privilege of sitting down with one of the foremost historians of our time, Simon Sebag Montefiore. As I write this, his work has never felt more urgent. “We’re in a new world of counterhistory,” he…
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A Note from Bari on Honestly
Honestly is taking a pause. We’ll be back soon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thefp.com/subscribe
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CBS News Presents: A Town Hall with Erika Kirk
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Last week, Bari sat down with Erika Kirk for an hour-long town hall in front of a live audience on CBS. It was an extremely powerful conversation. Erika and Bari spoke about a lot—rising political violence in this very...
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Should We Legalize Assisted Suicide?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com One of the most complex medical, ethical, moral, and religious questions of our era is that of physician-assisted suicide—also known as Medical Aid in Dying, or MAID. Eleven U.S. states and Washington, D.C. have legalized...
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Would America Be Safer Without the Second Amendment?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com There are more civilian-owned firearms in the United States than in any other nation on earth. To many, gun ownership is the ultimate expression of our freedom and of the promise that power ultimately resides with the...
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Kids Don’t Need Phones with Jonathan Haidt
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com You probably know Jonathan Haidt as the guy trying to save your kids from smartphones and social media apps. Likely you’ve read The Anxious Generation, which has been translated into 44 languages and sold nearly 2 million...
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Democratic Dissident John Fetterman
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Who owns the future of the Democratic Party? That’s the question on everyone’s mind since last Tuesday night—when the richest city in America elected 34-year-old democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as its mayor. You can…
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How We Lost Ourselves to Technology—and How We Can Come Back
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Do you feel uneasy? Do you feel a level of ambient anxiety? Do you feel despair, despite the fact that we live in the most luxurious time and place in human history? And did my producer offer to give me a Klonopin today?...
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How Katie Herzog Drank Her Way to Sobriety
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com If you’re listening to this, you probably know someone who has struggled with alcohol addiction, or maybe you’re an alcoholic yourself. It’s one of the most universal human experiences. In 2023, 10 percent of the U.S....
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How One Man Overcame His Autism
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Leland Vittert is one of America’s most recognizable television correspondents. You’ll know his face from years of frontline reporting in places like Egypt, Libya, Israel, and Ukraine. You may have followed his tumultuous...
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Inside the Mossad
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com If you’re anything like me, you’re a sucker for a good spy show: Homeland, Tehran, Fauda, The Bureau. I am fascinated by the life of spies—the secret meetings in Beirut cafés, the wigs and false identities, the double and...
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Woody Allen on Life and Death
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com You know the name Woody Allen. Everyone does. He’s made some of the most acclaimed films ever made: Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors—the list goes on and on and on. He’s made an astonishing 50...
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Conversations with Coleman: Three Hostages Families Disagree on How to Get Their Loved Ones Home
Everyone wants the war in Gaza to end. The reason the war is not over is because about 50 people are still being held hostage by Hamas. Twenty of them are alive, but on the brink of death. About 30 of them have already been killed, and their bodies remain in Hamas captivity. There are differing...
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Why Amanda Knox Forgave the Man Who Sent Her to Prison
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com On November 1, 2007, a man named Rudy Guede broke into a random home in Perugia, Italy, then raped and killed Meredith Kercher—a 21-year-old exchange student from the University of Leeds. You might not even remember the...
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Why Unions Went for Trump
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com The question of who represents the working class is probably the hottest debate in American politics. Is it Republicans? Democrats? Or socialists like Zohran Mamdani? Pundits can debate that question all they want, but…
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Jeffrey Epstein and Conspiracy America
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Here’s one fun question to ask at a dinner party: What is your favorite conspiracy theory? There’s the idea that the CIA killed John F. Kennedy. The moon landing was fake, and 9/11 was an inside job. Covid was designed by...
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Could Rahm Emanuel Be Our Next President?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Rahm Emanuel is giving every indication that he’s running for president in 2028—including by coming on Honestly yesterday. Emanuel, now 65 years old, has spent decades making a name for himself as one of the Democratic...
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Giga-Yachts, Flo Rida, and Bunkers. . . What Could Go Wrong?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Depending on who you ask, some would call the ultrarich “shameless”; others might say “aspirational.” Here’s what I mean: Mukesh Ambani, the Indian centibillionaire, has a room of snow in the Indian tropics—to say nothing...
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Why Young People Are Voting to Burn It All Down
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Just two weeks ago, New Yorkers voted en masse for a self-proclaimed socialist—someone who once called for “seizing the means of production.” This is, of course, Zohran Mamdani, who dominated in the Democratic primary for...
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Is Anyone a Genius?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Love him or hate him, many consider Elon Musk to be a modern-day genius. He co-founded PayPal, which transformed how people purchase things. He became the CEO of Tesla, which revolutionized electric vehicles—and made it...
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The Words That Made America
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com America is turning 250. And we’re throwing a yearlong celebration of the greatest country on Earth. The greatest? Yes. The greatest. We realize that’s not a popular thing to say these days. Americans have a way of taking...
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Mike Huckabee on Gaza, Iran, and MAGA’s Foreign Policy War
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com There are people who have résumés we might call “diverse” or “wide-ranging.” And then there are people like Mike Huckabee, who, at age 69, has seemingly crammed several lifetimes’ worth of careers into one. He was a...
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How to Examine Your Marriage and Your Life
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com A lot of people fall in love outside of their marriages. Some have affairs. Some leave their wives or husbands. But not a lot of people are Agnes Callard. Agnes did something really unique. She fell in love while she was...
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Andrew Cuomo on His Past and New York’s Future
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com When you think about great political comebacks, maybe you think of Donald Trump, or Richard Nixon, or “comeback kid” Bill Clinton. You might soon add Andrew Cuomo to that list. In 2020, Cuomo was at the top of the world.…
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How China Captured Apple
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com The majority of people listening to this episode are hearing it on an iPhone. As most of us can attest, the iPhone is so central to our lives that if we lose it, we feel totally unmoored from our ability to function in…
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Dana Perino on Trump’s White House, Fox News, and. . . Love
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thefp.com Sometimes we have a guest who needs no introduction. You know Dana Perino. She took on the job of White House press secretary when President George W. Bush was at his most unpopular—back in 2007 and 2008, as the Iraq War...
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Marco Rubio on Iran, Deportations, and the State Department Shake-Up
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…
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Can America Survive Without Christianity?
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...
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Ross Douthat: Why It’s Logical to Believe in God
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,...
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Dr. Mark Hyman: How to Live Your Healthiest Life
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...
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Axios Founders: Who Broke the Media?
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,...
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WATCH: Debating Pronouns with John McWhorter
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…
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WATCH: Jay Bhattacharya Was ‘Dangerous.’ Now He Leads the NIH.
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...
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LISTEN: Will Mahmoud Khalil Be Deported?
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…
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Can Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson Save the Left From Itself?
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...
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WATCH: Andrew Schulz Has Advice for Dems, Jews, and Comics
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…
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WATCH: Meet Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook’s Highest-Ranking Whistleblower
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...
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WATCH: Does the West Need a Religious Revival?
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...
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WATCH: Alex Karp’s Fight for the West
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...
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WATCH: The Future of Money with Brian Armstrong
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...
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WATCH: German Elections, Antisemitic Nurses, and the Latest Hostage Release
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...
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WATCH: ‘We’re Releasing Dangerous Terrorists. . . and We Accept the Price’
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…
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WATCH: LA Fires, MAGA’s Schism, and Meta’s Big Pivot
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...
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The most interesting conversations in American life happen in private. This show brings them out of the closet. Stories no one else is telling and conversations with the most fascinating people in the country, every week from *The Free Press*, hosted by former *New York Times* and *Wall Street Journal* reporter Bari Weiss.
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