Weiss is the former New York Times journalist best known for her departure from that paper. In a resignation letter posted to her own website, Weiss complained that she had been subjected to constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with her views, and that the Times had “become a kind of performance space.” A New York Times spokesperson then said the company is “committed to fostering an environment of honest, searching and empathetic dialogue between colleagues, one where mutual respect is required of all.”
I had followed Weiss’ resignation with interest — in no small part because I am drawn to nuanced conversations about the loss of nuance itself in academic and intellectual discourse. But as I watched Weiss’ performance in the space across from Maher — who was quick to testify that he didn’t take the same Covid precautions as Weiss — I did not see much in the way of nuance. I found myself comparing her comments to the quiet suffering of my colleagues in health care, the ones who never get to say they are “done.”
One of my areas of academic interest is physician burnout and mental health — a problem that was widely regarded as a public health crisis before the pandemic even began. A 2020 study published in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) Psychiatry compared the resilience levels of doctors to other employed people in the US and found that there was higher resilience in physicians after adjustment for sex, age and burnout amongst other factors…
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/28/opinions/bari-weiss-bill-maher-done-with-covid-horton/index.html
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