BARI WEISS SUBSTACK
Some Thoughts About Courage
by Bari Weiss
October 19, 2021
Why have things come so undone? And what can we do to rebuild them? Those are the questions, more than any others, that I’ve been turning over in my mind over the past year and they are the subject of an essay I just published in Commentary Magazine. Its headline: “We Got Here Because of Cowardice. Courage Is What Gets Us Out.” If you read this newsletter — and if you are new here, welcome! — you are by now quite familiar with the features of the great unraveling. The politicization of everything. The re-racialization of everyone. The demonization of those with a different perspective. The forced conformity…The betrayal of liberalism by the institutions meant to uphold it…The replacement of forgiveness and mercy with perpetual punishment. READ MORE
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