The Inside Forces Upending Medicine

DEI in our med schools, trauma in psychiatry: two stories explore the sabotage of science. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Peter Thiel Says America Has Bigger Problems Than Wokeness

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

How America’s Obsession with DEI Is Sabotaging Our Medical Schools

‘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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Trauma Therapy Has Captured America—and Prince Harry, Too

The alluring, but spurious, notion that all our problems stem from childhood has infiltrated our society. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

A Skirt, a Wig, and a Glock-19

With antisemitic hate crimes on the rise, Orthodox Jewish women are packing heat to defend their communities. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Free Press Essay Contest

Calling all High Schoolers! We want to hear from you. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Is AI the End of the World? Or the Dawn of a New One?

A conversation with Sam Altman, the man behind ChatGPT, about the risks and responsibilities of the artificial intelligence revolution. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Things Worth Remembering: Shakespeare’s Lesser Known Masterpiece

The song from the poet’s play ‘Cymbeline’ inspires both joy—and sorrow. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

My People and Their Pets

In observance of National Pet Month, one curmudgeon contemplates what it means to raise living things. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: What The Tuck?

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Sports Betting Is the ‘New Oxycontin’

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

AI With Sam Altman: The End of The World? Or The Dawn of a New One?

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Germany’s Greens Have Ukrainian Blood on Their Hands

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

What Your Country Can Do for You

By abandoning its old standards and appealing to more selfish ends, the military has exposed itself to the likes of Jack Teixeira. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Thirty Minutes with the Mayor of New York City

Eric Adams talks crime, reviving the blue-collar Democrat brand, and why Gotham will never be the next San Francisco. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

How I Mistook Freedom for Feminism

Mary Harrington once believed that individual liberty is the highest good. Then she got pregnant. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Things Worth Remembering: An Aristocrat’s Smut

Legendary bad boy, the Earl of Rochester, wrote sex-fueled verse designed to shock. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

‘My Friend’s Descent into Madness and Bloodshed’: An American Tragedy

A conversation with Jonathan Rosen about his magnificent new book ‘The Best Minds.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: That’s All, Folx!

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

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@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Having a Baby Made Me Even More Pro-Choice

‘I was willing to do almost anything to save my son. But I did not want to die.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

FP Forum: Inside the Surrogacy Boom with Suzy Weiss and Nellie Bowles

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Essays from Hollywood, Russia, and Beyond

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

‘My Friend’s Descent into Madness and Bloodshed’: An American Tragedy

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Last Words of a Putin Critic

A Russian dissident’s final speech as he faces 25 years in prison. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

We’re in Danger of Losing Our Most Important Resource

It’s not oil or eggs or toilet paper—but something far more precious. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

How Hollywood Is Making Me a Union Man

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

An Illustrated Guide to Self-Censorship

How we give up the fundamental right to free speech—in 32 cartoons by the brilliant Tim Urban. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Shut Up and Drive

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Things Worth Remembering: Love That Is Everlasting

John Donne’s poem strikes at the heart—with a line that knocks you flat. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Weekend Reading: Putting Three New Books on Your Radar

The hypocrisy of the American elite, the dangers of AI, and tech’s dirty secret—in our first-ever Saturday digest. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: They Can’t Handle The Truth

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Your iPhone Was Built With Child Labor

‘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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The College Kids Who Unionized Amazon

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Problem of Abundance

The solution to our nation’s great depression isn’t more stuff. It’s adventure. Martin Gurri writes. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Motherloading: Inside the Surrogacy Boom

‘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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Our Favorite Passover Conversation

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The School That Couldn’t Quit Covid

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Things Worth Remembering: Seeing God in a Cat

An 18th-century poet praised the Lord—and his pet feline Jeoffry. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Get Serious: About Purpose

We have become a treatment-resistant Prozac Nation. But the practice of believing in something—anything—can pull us out. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: Felonious Trump

The ex-prez is booked. Abortion rights are backed. Texas becomes an eco-power. Plus, a new twist for Don Lemon. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The von Trapps of Harlem

Can ten earnest kids playing Bach become the next Kardashians? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

A Prisoner of China. An American Scandal.

For 11 years, Mark Swidan has languished in a Chinese prison on charges no one believes. ‘If this were a politically connected person, he would have been out a long time ago.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Why No One Can Control AI

Former Microsoft and Google engineer David Auerbach says Big Tech gurus are right to be frightened of their own creation. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Alvin Bragg’s Dangerous Stunt

Today in Manhattan the resistance will get what it’s been craving for years. Is it worth it? Eli Lake weighs in. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

New York City Mayor Eric Adams

Listen now (39 min) | New York City has had a rough few years. It lost nearly four percent of its population during the pandemic. There was a historic crime surge, particularly violent crime. Buildings were empty as people continued to work from home. Pundits all over the world d … | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

‘I Felt Bullied’: Mother of Child Treated at Transgender Center Speaks Out

She was told medical intervention would help relieve her 14-year-old’s psychological distress. That’s not what happened. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Things Worth Remembering: William Blake’s The Lamb

The holy poem that inspired a haunting piece of music. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago