The New Intellectuals America (and the World) Needs | Bari Weiss & Craig Biddle

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In her 2022 talk “The New Founders America Needs,” Bari Weiss reminded listeners: “More than a dozen of the actual founders were 18th-century millennials-under the age of 35. So don’t tell me that small groups of young people cannot transform the world when they made ours.” In her 1961 essay “For the New Intellectual,” Ayn Rand presented what she saw as the basic principles that support the kind of society implied in the Declaration of Independence. In this conversation, Bari and Craig Biddle discuss their respective views on the ideas and mindsets that young intellectuals need if they want to support and advance civilized society.

[@authoritarianismaengussong]

Thank you for sharing this invigorating conversation.

[@DeeperWithDiego]

18:50 The cultural software update she is looking for is a working philosophy, which is currently Objectivism.

[@westleydeitchler1256]

I loved it. But, I have been an Objectivist for decades and have been a longtime fighter for liberty. Thousands of years ago, Cicero wrote in Republic a foreseeing of a day when there would be just one government in Athens and Rome and in different cities and times. I came up with that form of government and have written the laws and principles to govern it and have lived by them ever since, totally ignoring all the 'laws' predators and parasites attempt to impose on me. I am free. I haven't paid one penny in taxes nor obeyed regulations in decades. If either Bari or Craig pay one penny in taxes or get a driver's license, government permit, etc., they are not free, don't want to be free and reject the possibility of getting free. And nobody wants to know how I achieved freedom and how I could teach them IF I could find one person who wanted to BE free, I can teach them and I am a teacher by training and know one cannot teach anyone who thinks he or she already knows all they need to know..

[@YashArya01]

37:30

[@PabloAlvestegui]

How many here identify as atheists? I loved the response.

[@DeeperWithDiego]

That last answer... yikes. Oh well.

[@johnwayne6646]

a wild diego appears

[@hedroom01]

Saying that the founders were Millenals is somewhat misleading. While they were the age of our millenials today, they were also much close to their life expectancy than ours are. Old and young are relative terms, Jefferson, Adams et al were relatively old for their time.

[@lokiva8540]

As a long time fan of Karl Popper, as well as his quirky cohort in founding LSE, Shaw, and as a left-libertarian, much of that idealistic marketing speech by Bari sounded amazingly positive. However, a deeper dive shows she not only fails Popper's depiction of boundaries between unethical and abusive judgments, versus weaponizing speech as an element of other abusive acts, but has done so in ways that amount to actual crimes. People should ask Bari Weiss about her use of the NYT to instigate the murders of Palestinians, including poet Refaat Alareer, who also taught English at a Gaza college, and worked also as a news reporter, plus children and elderly around him. They should ask her about her record of promoting genocide, war crimes, Apartheid, and other human rights crimes, by playing into the ADL, AIPAC, IDF, and murderous Israeli Zionist regime propaganda promoting Zionism, as well as the massively funded fraud to claim anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic. In fact, 80% of Semitic peoples are Arabs and mostly Islam, with around 20% being Jews. Sephardics are Hispanic, while Ashkenazis who started the Zionist movement led by Rabbi Herzl are Germanic Jews. Therefore, if one uses words honestly, it's Zionists who are the actual anti-Semites. It appears she deserves the penalties Craig discusses for Putin's cabal.... perhaps along with Lord Balfour's UK offshoots, and Jenocide Joe's recent US conspiracy therein. What, another conspiracy theory? Nope, just application of the terms of the Rome Statute and ICC/ICJ Crime of Gencoide, wherein immunity is void, conspiracy defined broadly and to include social and economic means, not just direct murders and military killing sprees. In fact, in the context of Israeli flags on hung on some university dorms recently, it appears the message of some of them is to criminally conspire in genocide and other crimes, and not just be religious or political protected free speech. That's the nature of logical analysis Popper is known for demanding of university students, and any responsible adult. I wouldn't trust "U of Austin" to teach honest law, history, or facts, if they're staffed with faculty who conspire in "infninte games" of propaganda and dishonest politics. When coupled with murder squads (in the US even, search Basem Masri) and crimes against humanity, our focus should be on eradicating corrupt Democrats and Republicans. Or gaining more audience in this case for documentaries on how devious shadow groups operate, as in the 4 part movie, "The Lobby".

[@partizanofficer24]

who takes bari weiss seriously? seriously.

[@kevinmcfarlane2752]

So what are your objections then? Personally, I think she’s one of the better liberals.

[@partizanofficer24]

lol better liberals?! like better in what exactly? she is a delusional figure and because of people like her, usa is in decline.@@kevinmcfarlane2752

[@BruceMajors]

Me. What have you accomplished?

[@bn7441]

why don't you?

[@leslieackerman4189]

I do, you arrogant b*stard. Listen, then judge