Times defector Bari Weiss has become everybody’s favorite center-right public intellectual: principled, pro-Israel, not about to get pushed around by the progressive mob, and a damn good hang. So when she sat down with David Ellison (and lawyers) at Sun Valley last week, it set off the usual rumors that her Free Press might be Skydance’s next acquisition. But is it sound business or just savvy virtue signaling in a Trump 2.0 world?

News and notes from the Washington bubble, namely the G.O.P.’s lame-duck War of the Roses and Bari Weiss’s new alt-press stardom.