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Podcast: Honestly with Bari Weiss
Episode: Does Glorifying Sickness Deter Healing?
Description: In Bari’s view, Freddie deBoer is one of the best writers in the country. It’s not because she always agrees with him. Hardly. Freddie is a self-described Marxist. What she appreciates about him is that he is unflinching about criticizing “his side.” Freddie is one of the most trenchant critics of what he calls “Social Justice Politics”—which he argues distracts the left from the real issue of class. He is also unflinching in his views about mental illness and the way it is being glorified in our culture right now. Freddie knows about this subje...