Plus: the world on the brink, and John McWhorter in TFP. | Continue reading
There is a patronizing racism in the idea that slaughtering innocent people equates to noble freedom fighting, as if this were the only way to respond to oppression. | Continue reading
Everyone today—from cashiers to robot kiosks—expects a big gratuity for ringing up an order. Olivia Reingold asks: Can you refuse without looking like a jerk? | Continue reading
At a press conference like no other, Israel broadcast footage that bore testament to an ancient hatred. | Continue reading
The same country now protecting Hamas’s senior leaders has donated billions to American universities. Here’s why. | Continue reading
A Nazi sympathizer at The New York Times. Listening to voices from Gaza. Plus: Larry Hogan, Shaun King, and more. | Continue reading
A mass awakening from the woke slumber? | Continue reading
Many people woke up on October 7 as liberals and went to bed as conservatives. What has changed? | Continue reading
Clive James describes the devilishly delightful feeling of seeing another author fail. | Continue reading
Plus: a 3,100-mile race to transcendence. | Continue reading
My father-in-law and my late husband, both accomplished actors, wished for a time when Hollywood would make movies about real Native Americans. Now my daughter is living it. | Continue reading
Can 14 people running around in circles for 52 days straight bring about world peace? Evidently not. | Continue reading
Casual blood libel in your local paper. Plus: NATO, Jon Stewart, McGriddle Wars, reparations, and much more. | Continue reading
When the Hamas men stormed the border, they removed any pretense about the issue at stake. Not a state alongside Israel. Not even the existence of Israel. But the existence of Israelis. | Continue reading
Plus: a conversation with Michael Walzer, author of ‘Just and Unjust Wars.’ | Continue reading
In the wake of the brutal Hamas massacre, there have been calls to silence grotesque speech against our community. It’s understandable. But it’s wrong. | Continue reading
‘It’s a situation where every decision is agonizing.’ A conversation with Michael Walzer, the author of ‘Just and Unjust Wars.’ | Continue reading
‘I didn’t think you could live much longer in that smoke, in that hellish place. And now I see it was so much worse for other people. So much worse.’ | Continue reading
Listen now (76 mins) | If you’ve been following our coverage at The Free Press, you’ve noticed that we’ve been covering the war in Israel nonstop since it began. We’ve never produced this much content in this short of a time about a single subject. Some of … | Continue reading
Plus: the power of a bad idea. And the college donor revolt continues. | Continue reading
MrBeast’s act of kindness exposed one of the big debates roiling the medical profession: should disabilities be fixed—or celebrated? | Continue reading
At a rally in Ottawa, everyone believed Israel had to be wiped off the map. They were unclear about what should happen to the Jews living there. | Continue reading
The British historian on ‘an unpleasant 1930s feeling.’ The disinvitation of our favorite wrongthinking doctor. Plus: stories we are following. | Continue reading
My job is to terrify cancer cells. But apparently it's not just malignant cells that get uneasy around me. | Continue reading
A Palestinian and a former IDF soldier on the place the world is watching. Plus: Hamas’s strategy of human sacrifice. | Continue reading
Never before has a party adopted a war strategy to maximize civilian deaths on its own side. | Continue reading
I saw children through the fence playing with an empty tear gas canister. I wonder what my life would have been like if I’d been born on the other side. | Continue reading
This week, nine of my family members were killed. I weep for them and the place I once called home. | Continue reading
After universities both-sides the mass slaughter of Jews, Bill Ackman, John Huntsman, and others are saying ‘the buck stops here.’ | Continue reading
World War I poet Edward Thomas symbolized the breakdown of stability. | Continue reading
A conversation with the former secretary of state. Plus: George Packer on what Israel can learn from America’s 9/11 response. | Continue reading
The former secretary of state says an attack on Israel is an attack on America. | Continue reading
Comparisons between 10/7 and 9/11 might lead to unexpected places. | Continue reading
Listen now (64 mins) | In the early hours of Saturday morning on October 7, Israel was invaded by Hamas terrorists by land, air, and sea, which The Free Press has been covering all week in detail. With over 1,300 Israeli civilians dead, hundreds taken hostage into Gaza, and many … | Continue reading
After terrorists killed my cousin Daniel Pearl, my family called for peace. But after the worldwide celebration of our people’s slaughter, my hope for peace is dead. | Continue reading
Playboy has a stronger moral compass than the whole Ivy League. Plus: students offended by the phrase ‘master bedroom’ chant ‘glory to the martyrs.’ | Continue reading
At our institutions of higher education, the quads are alive with hate. | Continue reading
Microaggressions are met with moral condemnation. But actual violence is tolerated—even glorified. On the rot inside our universities and what to do about it. | Continue reading
Colleges used to encourage the exchange of challenging beliefs. Now faculty members who challenge students’ beliefs are being forced to leave the profession. | Continue reading
Trustees, myself included, have sat in silence as our schools were taken over by ideologues. It's time to wake up. | Continue reading
The country’s world-famous defenses failed on four levels. The worst was underestimating the enemy. | Continue reading
The U.S. could be facing the most serious hostage crisis since the Tehran embassy attack of 1979. | Continue reading
A new media mandate could mean Canadians will no longer be able to access popular Spotify podcasts. | Continue reading
If the estimates are right, this is the largest mass abduction of Americans since the Tehran embassy crisis of 1979. | Continue reading
This is what ‘decolonization’ really looks like. Look carefully at who is cheering it on. | Continue reading
This is what ‘decolonization’ really looks like. Look carefully at who is cheering it on. | Continue reading
After the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, hundreds rejoiced on the streets of New York. | Continue reading
Fancy-sounding academic jargon is not a curious intellectual exercise. Words make worlds. Words make nightmares. | Continue reading