Is Bari Weiss Embarrassed by the Intellectual Dark Web?

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A 2018 New York Times profile gave a cadre of anti-woke commentators a mainstream signal boost. But many of them now appear to be completely nuts.

.” The subheading declared an “alliance of heretics is making an end run around the mainstream conversation” and asked: “Should we be listening?”

And yet, Weiss hasn’t spent much energy covering the degeneration of the movement she helped catapult into the mainstream back in 2018. But shouldn’t she?After all, the IDW may be a tarnished brand, but it lives on under less-defined umbrellas like “heterodox,” “politically tribeless,” “anti-establishment,” and “anti-elite.” Some audiences who seek refuge under these umbrellas—and happen to be quite fond of many IDWers, even as they’ve spiraled into conspiracism—overlap with Weiss’ own.

This reflexive contrarianism is emblematic of the IDW, and naturally grows increasingly paranoid and extreme as conspiracy-minded audiences reward the more sensationalist theories and narratives with their attention. Another member of this tribe devoted to civility and rational discourse is the popular conservative podcaster and writer Ben Shapiro. As the right-wing’s angry motormouth one-time wunderkind, he’s remained somewhat consistent—having gone fromlike, “Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue” to was a biologist who was best known for confronting a woke mob at Evergreen State College in 2017.

“Given how influential this group is becoming,” Weiss wrote in 2018, “I can’t be alone in hoping the IDW finds a way to eschew the cranks, grifters and bigots and sticks to the truth-seeking.”

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