To "Bari" a story is to attempt to bury it but instead bring unimaginable levels of scrutiny and interest to it.

Bari Weiss is innovating entire new dimensions of failure. She's failing in ways hitherto unconceived of. A pioneer of failology. A faileontologist. Whole career is a Fail Mary. She's beyond the fail. The Daily Fail. She's on the quest for the Holy Fail. Making tomato and Fail Salad.

i always look back on this email as predictive of where she was heading

This is the student paper criticizing prominent alums for doing harm to the university and running afoul of its ethics.

Operation Mincemeat and Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre.

The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber.

We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch.

Say Nothing and Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe.

And yet people keep showing up to be interviewed! Incredible what these guys think of as normal.

“Did you ever consider that that neighborhood might suck?” 👏 @reckless.bsky.social saying what everybody else is thinking… again!

the wine moms are trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored