Sometime in the fall of 2020, shortly after she departed The New York Times, I had a brief conversation with Bari Weiss. She was in an entrepreneurial mood, making calls and soliciting opinions, and I told her that I thought there was a potential market for a new general-interest publication that was politically independent, competitive with The Atlantic and The New Yorker, free from the ideological strictures of wokeness and the loyalty tests of MAGA.
“Yes, yes,” she told me, as though this was already apparent to her. “But I’m going to start with a Substack.”
Hmmm, I thought. A Substack? Probably won’t hear much more about that.
Now here I am, six years later, about to start a column for a thriving general-interest magazine with a remarkable cast of writers and an independent perspective on the world. And it’s a privilege to be here.
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