The "Intellectual Dark Web" Is a Terrible Name for an Interesting Idea

A New York Timescolumnist unveiled a nascent intellectual movement this week.by Katie Herzog stevanovicigor/Getty
Bari Weiss is at it again.On Tuesday, the much loathed New York Times Opinion columnist—who began her journey out of the left's good graces last year with a piece entitled Aziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind-Reader—published a long column on the Intellectual Dark Web. This, as Weiss explains it, is "a collection of iconoclastic thinkers, academic renegades and medi