Honestly with Bari Weiss

I have a wooden spoon in my purse.

Darity Discipline, which basically, and it's the same thing at the beginning of Dr. Spock, is if you have a child, you can't, a child cannot push off into the lake from a moving dock. They need a firm dock in order to shove off.

Vibe into free to be you and me, but not that way.

And I worry sometimes that free to be you and me becomes for a boy if me is just like, I'm a masculine dude who likes trucks and competition that in some, in a lot of circles, many of the ones I run in that might be frowned upon a bit.

Salman Rushdie Sentenced to death by the Iranian Ayatollahs in 1989 for the sin of writing a novel

He lived under the shadow of a fatwa until two years ago On a stage like this one, he was viciously stabbed But he survived And undaunted this week, of course he published a book about it

He doesn't have any more information than any of the rest of us but he was able to establish a rapport with the lead prosecutor of the case and this guy eventually lets him in on what he discovered about the role of drugs in the murder and then nine years later Jimenez publishes the book of Matt which is the culmination of like 13 years of investigation into this case.

I sat down with him and he sort of walked me through the real story of what happened.

And that's kind of when she folded told me basically what happened at that point.

So he just couldn't face what actually was true about this kid you know Matt struggled with addiction and was involved in this sort of criminal underworld

You know there's a part in Jimenez's book where a guard says you know what happened with this guy like he just doesn't belong here you know the idea that like they should both be serving the same sentence that Russell Henderson should be serving the same sentence as the guy who actually murdered Matthew is I think pretty troubling

I think with cannabis there's a lot more common ground that people think there is.

And that's actually what I discovered in my book.

I think the pro-candabis people tend to idealize it and think it cures everything

I'm sort of a long conversation about like different people different times different agendas different departments But I also think the anti cannabis people need to be a little bit more open-minded

Criminalization is the worst case scenario.

Today's marijuana is not woodstock weed. It's not what most baby boomers used in college. It's not what most millennials used and it's been essentially industrialized To be much stronger than it ever has and I think we're downplaying the negative impacts for example the psychosis risk

It's not about you know, the people wanting to just sink kumbaya and I'm trying to drum circle and smoke some joints. This is about wall street. These are the people that have never smoked marijuana in their life But they have a stock index that they follow every day with the different stocks with the marijuana companies that are operating on it This is about money. This is about corporate capture

But the people selling this the people that are making money. You're not thankfully yet as far as I know selling marijuana That's good. You don't have your own marijuana brand I'm happy about that and I commend you for that because you probably could in massachusetts and make some money I'm glad you're not doing that But the people selling this they want you to use as much of their product as possible because they rely on addicts on people using their product daily For their main profit margins the 80 20 rule the average responsible quote-unquote user is not an important person for them Same thing with alcohol same thing with tobacco same thing with opioids

But sure, of course there are benefits

I don't think that that sort of outweighs the risk to society when you make it more available and accessible

It's kind of funny when I was growing up and people were debating like a lot of really prominent people debating legalization my living room like the Carl Sagan's of the world and the Allen Ginsberg and you know one criticism of legalization back then is that you had to smoke a whole joint

He's the author of nine books, including Enlightenment Now, The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, and most recently, Rationality, What It Is, Why It Seemed Scarce, and Why It Matters.

Since I wrote Enlightenment Now, went to press in 2017, I still try to keep track of trends.

He's the author of nine books, including Enlightenment Now, The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, and most recently, Rationality, What It Is, Why It Seemed Scarce, and Why It Matters.

Part of the argument of Enlightenment now and before that better angels of our nature is that over the course of history what we might call Enlightenment values have increased.

This was an argument against your book called Cosmolive Conferency, The Better Angels of Our Nature, which basically says wars are less frequent, less deadly than they've been at any time despite the fact that you think otherwise. Some of the counterarguments, one of which is just that.

Ponomarev is the author of the provocatively titled book, Does Putin Have to Die? The story of how Russia becomes a democracy after losing to Ukraine

In the book, I mean, you talk about pretty radical solutions And say that sitting around and having interviews only And just little parlor games is not enough I mean, you can't just sit there and do nothing

That's why I think that for once That's why I was writing this book Is actually to design the system beforehand

Our dear friend, Nik Gillespie, who interviewed Nellie Bowles last month about her new book

And this you could see very clearly in a wonderful book by Robert Gnossick called anarchy state and utopia which explains how the state emerges but strictly speaking

Ann is the author of 13 New York Times bestsellers including AudioSamerica, the left's plan to turn our country into a third world hellhole.

He is himself an immigrant from Iran and his latest book is Tierney, Inc. How Private Power Crushed American Liberty and What to Do About It.

It's called Bad News, How Won't Media's Under Mining Democracy. Actually, that is my first book and it's all about this. It's all about how the media came to miss this historic event.

The best account for why it's so out of reach for them is in Elizabeth Warren's book The Two Income Trap from when she before she was a progressive because the real housing crunch is pretty much located in liberal states and blue areas across much of if not most of red America housing is still pretty affordable you can buy a home for two three times your income which is basically kind of a natural place for it to be at in California it's eight times the average income the median income to purchase home which is unaffordable to most people and the reason for that is because these rich liberals pass zoning laws that protect the value of their homes and these laws say basically that a single parcel of land can only have a single family detached home on it so you can't build a duplex or triple-decker which would have been a really nice starter home maybe for your cleaning lady or your nanny instead they say no every parcel of land can only be zoned for single family detached which protects their housing values but makes housing that much more unaffordable

So there's a wonderful book, Paranode Parenting by a British sociologist, Frank Faradie.

He says the center of all of this is the spectacular collapse of adult solidarity, which is a fancy way of saying adults used to kind of assume that we'd help each other out with our kids and that if your kids in trouble, you know, and I'm there, I'll help them.

My first book was The Happiness Hypothesis it was about ancient wisdom and all that ancient civilizations and societies learned about how to live a good life and have a good society.

All right, so the last book I wrote is entitled Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America. By the way, I quote you at length in the book Unwoke.

And there are many chapters on the New York Times, I presume. There is an entire chapter on journalism where I quote your resignation letter at length.