The standing room-only crowd whooped as Bari Weiss strode onstage one recent evening in Washington, D.C. Wearing a sharp black blazer, a flouncy dress, and heeled sandals, the 41-year-old media maven sat and smiled at the audience. “I love D.C.,” she quipped. “In New York I’m like a 3, but in D.C. I’m more like a 7.5.”

Then it was down to business as Weiss turned to her guest, the young Trump-supporting defense tech entrepreneur Palmer Luckey , and began a long back-and-forth about foreign policy and the future of weapons . The crowd lapped it all up.

“She’s a great interviewer,” gushed one attendee, who came home with socks and other swag branded with the logo of Weiss’s publication, the Free Press. “It did feel really balanced. It was an intelligent, informative conversation that d

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