Treating your wife like an indentured servant is not conservative, writes Bethany Mandel. It’s abusive. | Continue reading
Equality under the law is the cornerstone of liberal democracy. But judges across the country are now factoring race into sentencing. | Continue reading
Stephen Spender was not a great poet. But he came close to greatness when he wrote about those who were. | Continue reading
Britain’s monarch, the 40th to be crowned at Westminster Abbey since William the Conqueror in 1066, travels with his own bed and toilet seat. | Continue reading
Goodbye and good luck to Vice, Steven Crowder, and late night. Plus, the stone of scone, the strike of the scribes, and much more. | Continue reading
The only question is: will we learn how to live in moving history? | Continue reading
DEI in our med schools, trauma in psychiatry: two stories explore the sabotage of science. | Continue reading
Listen now (81 min) | Peter Thiel doesn’t shy away from taking big bets. From Facebook (he was the company’s first outside investor) to Gawker (he successfully conspired to put the website out of business) and, of course, to Trump (he threw his support behind the nomi … | Continue reading
‘I spent over 50 years as a physician and educator at Penn Med. Now I’m using civil rights legislation to protect the profession—and American patients.’ | Continue reading
The alluring, but spurious, notion that all our problems stem from childhood has infiltrated our society. | Continue reading
With antisemitic hate crimes on the rise, Orthodox Jewish women are packing heat to defend their communities. | Continue reading
Calling all High Schoolers! We want to hear from you. | Continue reading
A conversation with Sam Altman, the man behind ChatGPT, about the risks and responsibilities of the artificial intelligence revolution. | Continue reading
The song from the poet’s play ‘Cymbeline’ inspires both joy—and sorrow. | Continue reading
In observance of National Pet Month, one curmudgeon contemplates what it means to raise living things. | Continue reading
The dish on Fox. The dirt on baby diapers. Swim classes wade into the culture wars. Plus: Ron DeSantis, Zooey Zephyr, Randi Weingarten, and RFK Jr. | Continue reading
The online gambling industry is profiting off addiction ‘the same way the Sackler family profited off of opioids.’ Only this time the pushers include state governments. | Continue reading
Listen now (70 min) | Just six months ago, few outside of Silicon Valley had heard of OpenAI, the company that makes the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. Now, this application is used daily by over 100 million users, and some of those people use it more often than Google. … | Continue reading
Berlin’s decision to shut down its last three nuclear reactors is a disaster, and all the smug tweets in the world can’t paper over that. | Continue reading
By abandoning its old standards and appealing to more selfish ends, the military has exposed itself to the likes of Jack Teixeira. | Continue reading
Eric Adams talks crime, reviving the blue-collar Democrat brand, and why Gotham will never be the next San Francisco. | Continue reading
Mary Harrington once believed that individual liberty is the highest good. Then she got pregnant. | Continue reading
Legendary bad boy, the Earl of Rochester, wrote sex-fueled verse designed to shock. | Continue reading
A conversation with Jonathan Rosen about his magnificent new book ‘The Best Minds.’ | Continue reading
Murdoch blows a near-billion. Budweiser gets the wrong buzz. Eco-maniacs nuke green energy in Germany. Plus, all the places you TGIF! | Continue reading
‘I was willing to do almost anything to save my son. But I did not want to die.’ | Continue reading
Watch now (46 min) | The democratization of birth—surrogacy for the everyman—is on the way. The question is, are we ready for it? | Continue reading
A screenwriter on the upcoming strike. The most important natural resource in the world. Plus: a Putin critic shows us how to live in truth—even from inside a Russian cage. | Continue reading
Listen now (100 min) | Jonathan Rosen has spent the last few years trying to understand the story of his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor. Michael Laudor was, by all accounts, a genius. Maybe even a prodigy. Academically, he excelled beyond belief. Things that are hard fo … | Continue reading
A Russian dissident’s final speech as he faces 25 years in prison. | Continue reading
It’s not oil or eggs or toilet paper—but something far more precious. | Continue reading
I’m descended from a long line of union-busting industrialists. But the battle of the Writers Guild of America vs. Media Fat Cats is turning me into a Bolshevik. | Continue reading
How we give up the fundamental right to free speech—in 32 cartoons by the brilliant Tim Urban. | Continue reading
Nothing could match the exhilaration of roaring away from school with a girl riding shotgun. So why don’t today’s teens want to drive? | Continue reading
John Donne’s poem strikes at the heart—with a line that knocks you flat. | Continue reading
The hypocrisy of the American elite, the dangers of AI, and tech’s dirty secret—in our first-ever Saturday digest. | Continue reading
A professor lies about race. A newspaper condemns a leak. A state cooks data to hide its missing students. Plus: the Dalai Lama. And much more. | Continue reading
‘Rarely in history has the practice of preying on the weak been so severe, generated such profit, and touched the lives of so many.’ | Continue reading
Officially, the activists with degrees don’t exist. Unofficially, the “salts” helped lead the only successful revolt against the world’s most powerful tech giant. | Continue reading
The solution to our nation’s great depression isn’t more stuff. It’s adventure. Martin Gurri writes. | Continue reading
‘It’s almost like a heterosexual relationship. I’m the provider. And this other woman that I met on Facebook is staying at home and having my kid for me.’ | Continue reading
Listen now (61 min) | The Exodus—the story of the Israelites’ freedom from Egyptian slavery 3,000 years ago—is the ultimate story of freedom. And not just for Jews. But for people seeking liberation from subjugation in so many other times and places. Including h … | Continue reading
A school in upstate New York imposed some of the most extreme measures during the pandemic—including silent lunches and outdoor masking. The rules are still in effect. | Continue reading
An 18th-century poet praised the Lord—and his pet feline Jeoffry. | Continue reading
We have become a treatment-resistant Prozac Nation. But the practice of believing in something—anything—can pull us out. | Continue reading
The ex-prez is booked. Abortion rights are backed. Texas becomes an eco-power. Plus, a new twist for Don Lemon. | Continue reading
Can ten earnest kids playing Bach become the next Kardashians? | Continue reading