Is Bari Weiss Embarrassed by the Intellectual Dark Web?
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesIt’s been six years since Bari Weiss published a long, glossy, and much-discussed New York Times profile, titled, “Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web.” The subheading declared an “alliance of heretics is making an end run around the mainstream conversation” and asked: “Should we be listening?”Despite the occasional caveat throughout almost 3,700 words, Weiss made it clear that her answer to this question was “Yes.”Weiss listed “three distinct qualities” that members of the IDW shared: their commitment to civil discourse, even about controversial subjects; their fearless pursuit of the truth, regardless of what was “politically convenient”; and their expulsion from “institutions that have become increasingly hostile to unorthodox thought.”Read more at The Daily Beast.