NATIONAL REVIEW
Good Luck to Bari Weiss at CBS
The Editors
October 8, 2025

The appointment of Bari Weiss to be editor in chief of CBS News has people freaking out — “like, literally freaking out,” per a staffer at the organization quoted by The Independent. “People are using words like depressing and doomsday,” said another. So what, exactly, is all the fuss about? Weiss gained national attention in 2020 when she resigned from the New York Times, which had become a hostile environment. She wrote as a disillusioned liberal rather than as a doctrinaire conservative, but that was enough to earn her the ire of colleagues in a newsroom that could not tolerate any deviation from progressive groupthink. READ MORE

NATIONAL REVIEW A Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia Is Fundamentally Unfunny — and Unfree  If an American stand-up comedian agrees to perform in the quasi-authoritarian country of Saudi Arabia for boatloads of money, is he selling out free speech? Sebastian Maniscalco, Pete Davidson, Andrew Schulz, Bill Burr, and Dave Chappelle are popular comics who are participating this week in the Riyadh Comedy Festival, a Saudi-sponsored event, for allegedly big checks.