Suzy Weiss: Wealth Is Wasted on Melinda Gates

The medical drama that made my dad scared of forks, the piece I wish I’d written—and more! | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Patron Saint of Lost Americans

Like so many in this modern, materialistic age, Seraphim Rose lost God. But then a void, a lover, and an Easter service brought him home. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

WATCH: Gazans Clash with Hamas as Historic Protests Escalate

Exclusive footage and eyewitness testimony from inside the latest—and so far boldest—wave of anti-Hamas protests in northern Gaza. “People have become more daring.” | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Bari Weiss: My Picks of the Week

Reading the tea leaves on Trump. Iran: Deal or no deal? The socialist nepo baby running for New York City mayor. Plus: God. Here are Bari Weiss's picks of the week! | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Mike Pompeo: We Don’t Need a Fake Deal With Iran

American isolationists on the right, and their allies in Obama-aligned think tanks in Washington, suggest there are only two options: war or a deal. Nonsense, writes Mike Pompeo | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Mel Robbins Has Two Words for America’s Control Freaks

Judging each other on social media has become a national sport. The internet’s favorite self-help guru wants everyone to stop. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: Homegrown Criminals

Republicans head to El Salvador, Bernie goes to Coachella, Trump sets his sights on Harvard, the White House hosts Holy Week, RFK gets to the bottom of autism, and Chinese ’peasants’ clap back, write @seantfischer and @nelliebowles | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Three Top Pentagon Aides Were Suspended. What’s the Real Story?

One of them is Dan Caldwell—a close friend of Pete Hegseth’s and a leader of the administration’s ‘restrainers.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The New Rules of Podcasting Are Making Our Debates—and Us—Dumber

I celebrated the rise of new media, writes Konstantin Kisin. What could go wrong with “democratizing information”? As it turns out, quite a lot. Witness the Douglas Murray and Dave Smith debate. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Trump Turns Off the ‘Disinformation’ Spigot. Plus. . .

Is Trump defying the Supreme Court? Jed Rubenfeld says: Hold on a minute. Should Luigi Mangione get the death penalty? We battle it out. Ross Douthat makes the rational case for faith. And more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Ross Douthat: Why It’s Logical to Believe in God

The New York Times columnist on why miracles are ‘perfectly rational,’ what he’s praying for this Easter, and the contest for Elon Musk’s soul. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

No, the President Has Not Defied a Supreme Court Ruling

The exaggerations on both sides are spectacular. The truth? There’s less to the case than meets the eye, writes Jed Rubenfeld. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Should the Menendez Brothers Be Released?

Judges are increasingly giving lighter sentences to criminals who suffered abuse during childhood. That could be good news this week for the notorious Menendez murderers. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Fight Club: Execute Luigi Mangione?

Charles Fain Lehman says Mangione’s alleged crime is the very reason the death penalty exists. Nick Gillespie says the government has no business taking his life. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Exclusive: DHS Cuts Harvard Grants, Threatens Student Visas

Following the administration’s decision to freeze $2.2 billion in contracts, Homeland Security takes its own steps to punish America’s best-known university. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Joe Biden Made 600 Grants to Stop ‘Disinformation.’ Donald Trump Now Has a Plan for Them.

Top federal officials are ‘just getting started’ on a cancelling spree, write Gabe Kaminsky and Madeleine Rowley for The Free Press. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

When Trade War Becomes a Real War

The unraveling of U.S.–China economic ties echoes a darker chapter of history, when a business dispute between the East and the West escalated into violence. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Trump vs. Harvard. Plus. . .

Charles Lane and Chris Rufo weigh in on the showdown. Plus: The state of the race in the 51st state. Steve Witkoff reverses course. And much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Harvard Had It Coming. That Doesn’t Mean Trump Is Right.

The school is taking a stand for academic freedom, writes Charles Lane. How long will it last? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Welcome to This Week in Canada, from The Free Press

How did Pierre Poilievre lose a 20-point lead? Trucker organizers face 10 years in prison. Antisemitism at McGill University. And much more from the 51st state. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Christopher Rufo: The Right Is Winning the Battle over Higher Education

Civil-rights laws have always been a weapon—it’s just that conservatives have finally decided to wield them. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

How Covid Lies Destroyed Kids’ Lives

We were told school closures were based on evidence—and were for our own good. Five years later, millions of children are still paying the price. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Dr. Mark Hyman: How to Live Your Healthiest Life

The physician talks about weight loss, chronic illness, sleep, stress management, MAHA, and so much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Will New York Elect a Champagne Socialist? Plus. . .

A cosmic bachelorette party. Is Trump repeating Obama’s mistake on Iran? Why no one can predict the president’s next move. And much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Trump’s Iran Nuclear Deal Looks a Lot Like Obama’s

Washington has leverage over Tehran. Why won’t the administration press the advantage? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Katy Perry’s Cosmic Bachelorette Party

The plan for America’s first all-female spaceflight was to look good, have a great time, and do a lot of screaming. And honestly? Mission accomplished. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Trump Is the Policy

Guessing the president’s next move is an exercise in intellectual humility, writes Matthew Continetti. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

A Young Socialist Wants to Run NYC. And He Could Win.

Zohran Mamdani vows to spend billions subsidizing buses, housing, and grocery stores. He says he’ll arrest the Israeli PM if he ever steps foot in NYC. And he’s surging in the polls. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Sen. Dave McCormick: The Attack on Gov. Shapiro Was an Assault on Democracy

Shapiro is a Democrat. I’m a Republican who supports President Donald Trump. No side has a monopoly on the political violence rising in our country, writes Sen. Dave McCormick. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Is Apple Too Big to Fail? Who Is Winning the AI Race? Plus. . .

An arsonist targets Governor Josh Shapiro’s home on Passover. Tyler Cowen bucks conventional wisdom on China. A litmus test for Oakland progressives. And much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

China and America Agree: Apple Is Too Big to Fail

The problem with building iPhones in America isn’t that they’d be priced at $3,500 each. It’s that they wouldn’t be built at all. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Is This the Chinese Century? Not If AI Has Anything to Do with It.

One of the biggest soft power victories in all of world history occurred over the last few years. Hardly anyone has noticed. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Things Worth Remembering: The Haunting Truth of Dostoyevsky’s Demons

Dostoyevsky knew that every movement that burns hot enough will attract opportunists, zealots, and destroyers. Read @bfcarlson on the haunting truth of Demons. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Will Oakland Finally Reject Progressive Politics?

A special mayoral race in this troubled city is a litmus test for the Democratic Party’s future. ‘Carjackings, home invasions. . . I’ve lost my patience.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Kill Tony, The White Lotus Gift Shop, and Gen Z Surveillance

Tony Hinchcliffe’s new show doesn’t work—here’s why. Also: HBO’s merch play, a new photography exhibit, and how come Gen Z chooses to be watched all the time? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Is the Dire Wolf Truly Back from the Dead?

After a start-up claimed to have de-extincted a species, the internet called BS. But the founders insist it’s real—and the woolly mammoth is next. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Can Video Games Make You a Better Man?

The success of ‘The Last of Us’ and ‘The Witcher 3’ points to a deeper yearning: that the ultimate male fantasy isn’t conquest, but connection, writes Aaron Bronfman. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Bari Weiss: My Picks of the Week

We’re publishing a lot these days. Here’s what you can’t miss. It’s a dizzy, disorienting moment. Let us help you make sense of it. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: Yippy and Afraid

Americans are sent to sweatshops, Gen Z goes to church, Mississippi becomes the education capital of the world, real showers are back, our military is big again, and much, much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

America and the Exodus

The story of Passover is not just a Jewish one. Our founding fathers were profoundly inspired by it. So was Cecil B. DeMille. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Tyler Cowen: Welcome to Our Weird and Wild Century. It’s a Lot Like the 17th.

England in the 1600s was full of radical progress—and also extreme disorder. Those qualities typify our own strange, unpredictable era. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

America and China Are Getting Divorced. It’s Not Amicable. Plus. . .

Xi and Trump’s fight for global supremacy. Could the White House strike a deal with Iran as soon as this weekend? A soybean farmer’s appeal to the president. And much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Niall Ferguson: Will Trade War Become a Real War?

Free Press columnist and esteemed financial and military historian Niall Ferguson sits down with Bari to explain the perils of Trump’s tariff war with China. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

China and America Aren’t Just in a Trade War. It’s a Fight for the Twenty-First Century.

Xi and Trump are now in a zero-sum contest for global supremacy. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Will the U.S. Strike a Deal with Iran This Weekend?

‘By the end of May, we could either have serious talks with Iran or the possibility of military action.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

I’m a Soybean Farmer Who Voted for Trump. I’m Begging the President to End the Trade War.

The trade war with China could put us out of business by 2027. All our blood, sweat, and toil could vanish with the stroke of a pen. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Truth About Child Welfare in America

Gavin Peterson, 12, Jahmeik Modlin, 4, and Marcello Meadows, 10 months. They all died because government agencies are discouraged from helping kids, writes Naomi Schaefer Riley. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Legal Trick Being Used to Trip Up Trump

Judges are issuing orders that block government policies from taking effect anywhere in the country. Jed Rubenfeld explains what to do about them. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago