Honestly with Bari Weiss

I like that we get many viewpoints through the free press, but can you please stop putting Batya front and center? Hard to take her views seriously.

Bari, you are doing an amazing job. Thank you for this important podcast - it soothes my soul to listen to truthful and sane reporting. It has been such a difficult time for us who care about the Jewish people and democracy and legitimacy of information. You are providing an exceptional service for all of us. Thank you!

Good on you for bringing Batya into the mix. It is really hard to find people who have principles and also support Trump, because Trump tends to demand personal loyalty over principles. But Batya honestly seems to care about American workers (though I think her ideas about how to help them are very counterproductive, and I disagreed with them when the Democrats held them). I don’t understand, though, how she can be for the US’s support of Israel, but toe the Trumpian line on Ukraine and Russia. Is it just that she’s Jewish, or is there a principle at work here? Either we should support little democracies around the world or we shouldn’t. I find myself agreeing with Brianna a great deal, as well as Bari, though I am an old guard Reaganite conservative, fiscally, morally, and in terms of foreign policy.

Would love to hear a discussion about the public lands debate that is very important to many Americans, particularly those of us in the West. As I talk to my friends who voted for Trump, this is one area that hunters, anglers, ATVers, skiers, hikers and bikers agree on - they don’t want to lose their public lands, yet the USFS has already taken a massive blow. Could you bring on an expert?