Some in the government appeared to run interference on behalf of the president’s son. But others followed the law without fear or favor. | Continue reading
A. E. Housman spent his life pining for a man who refused him. It was sad, lonely—bleak. But, my God, it was poetry. | Continue reading
Larry Summers reveals why universities should ban legacy admissions, scrap elite sports, and make a first-rate education more available to all. | Continue reading
The Free Press goes to the movies: Suzy Weiss on ‘Barbie.’ Elliot Ackerman on ‘Oppenheimer.’ | Continue reading
Elliot Ackerman reviews ‘Oppenheimer,’ a film about the man—and the weapon—that ushered in our world. | Continue reading
Suzy Weiss reviews the Warner Bros. blockbuster: I went to Greta Gerwig’s new movie and got pink pilled. | Continue reading
Skims save lives. Bipartisan psychedelics. California’s war against algebra. Queer water (yep). And much more from Nellie Bowles. | Continue reading
Listen now (43 min) | Last week I found myself in Sun Valley, Idaho, at a conference with a lot of big wigs. Among them was Larry Summers—an economist, the Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton, and a former president of Harvard University. The timing was fortuitous. | Continue reading
Rates of autism are skyrocketing. The question isn’t just why—but what we need to do about it right now, and what’s holding us back. | Continue reading
Every summer, the haute bourgeoisie of Middle America descend on Lake of the Ozarks to jet ski, barbecue ribs, and (until 2023) drink a shit-ton of Budweiser. | Continue reading
More states are legalizing weed every year. An estimated 13.2 million Americans use the drug every day. So why is it starting to feel like a bad idea? | Continue reading
As traditional male rites of passage dwindle, one member of the Crow Nation is trying to mold courageous men out of boys with soft hands. | Continue reading
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s cage match is a great idea. And why your kids should take up MMA. | Continue reading
Ernest Dowson is a little-remembered poet whose language of love and loss we will never forget. | Continue reading
A conversation with Hannah Barnes about the medical scandal at Tavistock, the UK’s only youth gender clinic. | Continue reading
Actors join the picket line. Zuck puts Musk on Thread alert. Tucker cozies up to Andrew Tate. Plus: Kamala, DeSantis and Jonah Hill. | Continue reading
A growing cadre of angry mothers is taking over school boards and winning influence as GOP kingmakers. Why are they being called a ‘hate group’? | Continue reading
Technology is our new god. What would a refusal to worship look like? Paul Kingsnorth offers a vision of resistance. | Continue reading
Listen now (70 min) | Last month, Britain’s National Health Service made major news when they announced that they were banning the use of puberty blockers for children, except for those enrolled in a tightly regulated clinical trial. The decision was made after an independe … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence won’t end civilization, argues Marc Andreessen. Just the opposite. It is quite possibly the the best thing human beings have ever created. | Continue reading
Technology is our new god. What would a refusal to worship look like? Paul Kingsnorth offers a vision of resistance. | Continue reading
Trans activists forced the retraction of my paper. Their efforts have redoubled my commitment to the truth. | Continue reading
Poet Philip Larkin led a miserable life. Yet he conjured the divine. | Continue reading
Biden says “this is not a normal court.” Is he right? A discussion with Jeannie Suk Gersen, Harry Litman and Sarah Isgur on the end of affirmative action and more. | Continue reading
The left hits out at Asians. The gays turn away from DeSantis. Biden’s Big Tech romance is suddenly on the rocks. Plus, MTG, NFTs, and TMI from the de Blasios. | Continue reading
Listen now (101 min) | Last week, the Supreme Court handed down, as they usually do as the term comes to an end, a flurry of highly anticipated major decisions. Two of them made a lot of news: one effectively ended affirmative action in American higher education, and another rule … | Continue reading
We’ve stuffed ourselves with the good things we’ve created, yet still yearn for meaning. The recent riots are a sign of our despair. | Continue reading
How do you build something that outlasts you? | Continue reading
Our history belongs to me no less than to any Mayflower descendant. Maybe more, writes Martin Gurri, since I knew too well the alternative to freedom. | Continue reading
Hundreds of thousands of citizens are busy figuring out how to disobey the courts, avoid taxes, and find ways to circumvent the U.S. government. They say they are the real Americans. | Continue reading
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s love poem is famous. But her own love story is just as legendary. | Continue reading
The presidential candidate tells me why he’s ‘the only Republican willing to take on Donald Trump.’ | Continue reading
To Mariam and Asla, America was both beautiful and pockmarked. But they believed in it, because here they became the people they were meant to be. | Continue reading
With a camera and a curious eye, Bill Meyers shows how our republic fails—and triumphs—in small ways, every day. | Continue reading
Affirmative action is illegal. Hunter Biden is unlawful. D.C. murders are up. Media profits are down. Plus, DeSantis reminds us he’s running for president. | Continue reading
Listen now (63 min) | In 2016, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was one of 17 Republicans in a crowded field trying to beat Donald Trump. We know how that movie ended. One of the hard won lessons of that primary, especially among Republicans, was that it was foolish not … | Continue reading
The couple’s popularity has plummeted because they shirked the one thing Americans truly care about: hard work. | Continue reading
What does Wagner's failed coup mean for Putin, the war, and the world? Making sense of a baffling—and still unfolding—story. | Continue reading
The Supreme Court is expected to rule that colleges can no longer rig for racial diversity. Some say ‘that’s dangerous and cruel.’ Others say it’s about time. | Continue reading
Kids are losing high school debates because of their personal tweets, reveals James Fishback in a new exposé. | Continue reading
In his famously dark masterpiece, T. S. Eliot evokes a moment of ecstasy. | Continue reading
Twenty years ago, I was a rare gay teen at Pride. Now, I’m not even sure I count as queer. | Continue reading
Elon & Zuck are fighting. Muslims & Christians are uniting. Hunter Biden gets off. Meghan & Harry get sacked. Plus, a Titanic trip ends in tragedy. | Continue reading
New research shows that the ideological transformation of our schools is widespread—and should concern anyone who cares about open inquiry and free speech. | Continue reading
On the latest episode of Honestly, I spoke to the presidential candidate about why he’s polling at 20 percent among likely Democrats. | Continue reading
Dr. Vinay Prasad fact-checks the presidential candidate on vaccines, regulatory capture, and more. | Continue reading
Listen now (90 min) | Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. is the rare Kennedy who hasn’t yet joined the family business. But at age 69—after a long career as an environmental lawyer and activist, and many years advocating against lifesaving public health programs like childhoo … | Continue reading
Drag queens dressed as nuns. And the real fans who know that the only theater in the stadium was the ball game. | Continue reading