Bari Weiss is an American opinion writer and editor. From 2017 to 2020, she was an op-ed staff editor and writer about culture and politics at The New York Times. Weiss attended Columbia University in New York City, graduating in 2007. She founded the Columbia Coalition for Sudan in response to the War in Darfur.
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Bari Weiss is an American opinion writer and editor. From 2017 to 2020, she was an op-ed staff editor and writer about culture and politics at The New York Times. Weiss attended Columbia University in New York City, graduating in 2007. She founded the Columbia Coalition for Sudan in response to the War in Darfur. Weiss was the founding editor from 2005 to 2007 of The Current, a magazine at Columbia for politics, culture, and Jewish affairs. In her 2019 book, How to Fight Anti-Semitism, Weiss describes the contentious atmosphere during this period as giving her \”a front row seat to leftist anti-Semitism\” at the university. In January 2018, Weiss wrote an opinion piece titled “Aziz Ansari Is Guilty Of Not Being a Mind Reader’’ where an anonymous woman detailed an alleged sexual assault by comedian and actor Ansari. In the piece, Weiss claimed that the anonymous woman should have taken further steps to avoid unwanted contact with Ansari and said that her experience was merely “bad sex’. The piece received criticism from several sources, including Eve Ensler, the Vagina Monologues, and other sources for fundamentally misunderstanding the definition of intersectional politics.
She also wrote an article about the Chicago Dyke March, asserting that intersectionality is a particular form of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their caste is based on. She has been a Wall Street Journal Bartley Fellow in 2007, and a Dorot Fellow from 2007 to 2008 in Jerusalem. From 2011 to 2013, Weiss was senior news and politics editor at Tablet. She left following the departure of Pulitzer Prize winner and deputy editor Bret Stephens, for whom she had worked, and joined him at The NY Times. In 2017, she wrote opinion pieces advocating for the blending of cultural influences, something derided by what she termed the “strident left’s” as cultural appropriation. She criticized the organizers of the 2017 Women’s March protesting the inauguration of President Trump for their “chilling ideas and associations” She has written an article in which she criticizes the New York Post for its lack of civility on campus, including from pro-Israel students.
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