Writer and editor Bari Weiss announced on Tuesday that she is leaving the New York Times, citing an “illiberal” environment
Bari Weiss announced on Tuesday that “illiberalism” has driven her to leave the New York Times. Photo: Courtesy of MSNBC/YouTube Bari Weiss announced on Tuesday that she is leaving the New York Times, citing an “illiberal” environment, and confirming in an interview with Vice that she has “self-expelled.” Weiss joined the company in 2017 as a staff writer and editor for the “Opinion” section. Weiss resigned in a lengthy letter to the paper’s publisher, A.G.
Weiss describes these experiences as “unlawful discrimination, hostile work environment, and constructive discharge.
The Times’ acting editorial-page editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, said the paper “appreciate[s] the many contributions that Bari made to Times Opinion,” according to a statement she gave to NBC News. Kingsbury noted she is “personally committed to ensuring that the Times continues to publish voices, experiences, and viewpoints from across the political spectrum.”
More recently, Weiss was one of the signatories on a much debated letter published by Harper’s defending “free speech.” Along with J.K. Rowling, Malcom Gladwell, and 150 others, Weiss signed on to the manifesto, which condemned the so-called forces of illiberalism. One signer, writer and trans activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, has since apologized for adding her name to the letter, saying she would not have signed had she known who else was doing so.
On Twitter over the weekend, Thomas Chatterton Williams, a writer who also signed the Harper’s letter, claimed in now-deleted tweets that he was “in the middle of nowhere in France and I literally ended up expelling from my house an American friend staying over who, out of nowhere, started ranting against Bari Weiss.” Au revoir, Bari. Enjoy whatever book/podcast/movie/Quibi deal you’ve got waiting for you on the other side of all this.
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