Bari Weiss Quotes
It is a strange experience to have another person spit on you.
Weiss, Bari. How to Fight Anti-Semitism. Crown, 2019.
He was explaining one of the reasons for the development of Jewish humor--namely the amelioration of anti-Semitism.
In the wake of the Tonkin Gulf incident, the United States bombed and destroyed North Vietnam naval installations:
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
Bari Weiss is an American opinion writer and editor. From 2013 until 2017, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal. From 2017 to 2020, she was an op-ed staff editor and writer about culture and politics at The New York Times.
