Is Bari Weiss Embarrassed by the Intellectual Dark Web?

It’s been six years since Bari Weiss published a long, glossy, and much-discussed New York Times profile, titled, “Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web.” The subheading declared an “alliance of heretics is making an end run around the mainstream conversation” and asked: “Should we be listening?”

Despite the occasional caveat throughout almost 3,700 words, Weiss made it clear that her answer to this question was “Yes.”

Weiss...