Bari Weiss and The New York Times | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - S4E29

On this Season 4 Episode 29 of the Jordan Peterson Podcast, Jordan Peterson is joined by Bari Weiss. Bari Weiss is a journalist and author. She has worked as an opinion writer and editor at the New York Times, before that she was an OP editor and book reviewer at the Wallstreet Journal, and a senior editor at tablet magazine. Bari now writes for herself on SubStack.

Jordan and Bari Weiss discussed her career, the circumstances surrounding her resignation from the New York Times, the aftermath of her famous resignation letter which criticized the New York Times, Twitter and social media, the phrase “Systemic Racism”, the work she is doing now, and much more.
Find more Bari Weiss on her substack Common Sense with Bari Weiss https://bariweiss.substack.com/, on Twitter @bariweiss, and read her notorious resignation letter at https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast can be found at https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/
[00:00] Intro
[0:18] Jordan introduces this episode’s guest journalist and writer Bari Weiss
[2:00] Starting off with Bari's journey leading up to working for the New York Times. The original goal of her position at the Times was to provide a unique perspective through opinion pieces that wouldn't normally be on the radar of a typical Times reader or writer
[6:00] Weiss writing career starting with the Wallstreet Journal before moving onto the Times
[8:00] Jordan does a small divergence into the undergraduate experience in modern elite universities, specifically in the humanities. Bari speaks on her experience with politically directed curriculum
[22:30] Weiss connects the experience of modern universities as her first exposure to an ideal of neo-racism that would cause her future actions as a journalist
[30:30] A closer examination of the phrase "Systemic Racism" and what it typically implies for those that use it in western culture
[44:30] Weiss talks about the beginning of her experience writing and editing at t..