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
On Juneteenth, we celebrate black progress. But if we want to achieve more of it, writes Tomiwa Owolade, we need ideas that aren’t born in the U.S.A. | Continue reading
This time the president is not a victim of a witch hunt. The situation is entirely of his own making. | Continue reading
Few poets write about happiness. Constantine Cavafy did it with panache. | Continue reading
You have to choose between doing more for yourself—or being more for your kids. | Continue reading
Listen now (61 min) | Happy Father's Day! For today's episode, a conversation about fatherhood with three dads who have thought a lot about parenthood, masculinity and being a dad in a world stripped of convention. Richard Reeves is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a … | Continue reading
Trump’s indicted, but ignited. Lesbians love ‘non-men.’ Modelo Especial is the new King of Beers. Plus: crypto scams, $200 for brains, and much more. | Continue reading
American parents have bought into noble ideas about their schools. Here’s the uncomfortable truth. | Continue reading
The author sacrifices her new novel because it’s set in Russia. What’s next? Russian hats? Russian dressing? The breed of cat known as a Russian Blue? | Continue reading
And what happened when we were forced to live without it. | Continue reading
The Cavinder Twins, the emerging oligarchs of women’s college basketball, aren’t the best players. But they might be the best-looking. | Continue reading