As more people burned her books over the weekend, the author confronts the idea that she is ‘dangerous’ and ‘transphobic.’ | Continue reading
White, working-class, middle-aged Americans are one of the only demographics in the world that has seen its life expectancy fall. But Mike wasn’t just a statistic. | Continue reading
For most of her life, the great American poet lived a life of solitude in Massachusetts. It was only after she died, at the age of 55, that the world discovered her. | Continue reading
For most of her life, the great American poet lived a life of solitude in Massachusetts. It was only after she died, at the age of 55, that the world discovered her. | Continue reading
A conversation with war reporter Sebastian Junger. Plus: the brilliant economist Tyler Cowen on bank runs, crypto scams, and mind-bending AI. | Continue reading
The DSA says ‘not in our backyard.’ Jamaal Bowman says ‘don’t marginalize TikTok.’ Rupert Murdoch says ‘I do.’ And Twitter says ‘💩.’ | Continue reading
A first-generation student. A star soccer player. And the ominous emails from all-powerful administrators. | Continue reading
I came to the U.S. prizing its freedoms. But I found that this nation’s most powerful people value something else entirely. | Continue reading
Listen to the latest episodes of The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling. | Continue reading
Listen now (74 min) | The last time economist Tyler Cowen was on Honestly about a year ago, inflation was the highest it had been in 40 years, gas prices were nearly $7 a gallon in many parts of the country, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine was leading to a lot of fears about bre … | Continue reading
But I don’t share the conventional wisdom that the U.S. invasion, which began 20 years ago this week, was a colossal failure. | Continue reading
In prison, I longed for the future I was meant to live. But it wasn’t until I accepted my fate that I found the strength to carry on. | Continue reading
Chidiock Tichborne’s extraordinary poem written on the eve of his execution. | Continue reading
One corgi has five-figure deals with MGM Rewards, Amazon, and Grubhub. Last year, a goldendoodle’s revenue surged to $800,000. | Continue reading
RIP SVB, Facebook NFTs, 10,000 Meta employees. And say hello to reparations in San Francisco. | Continue reading
Calvary Chapel in Silicon Valley refused to close during the Covid lockdowns, arguing freedom of religion. Then the government surveillance began. | Continue reading
Listen now (70 min) | When most people think about war, they think about senseless killing, brutality, violence and horror. But when journalist Sebastian Junger thinks about war — even though he has witnessed firsthand how war is all of those things — he also thinks about meaning … | Continue reading
Meet the men and women who get paid to be injected with brand-new wonder drugs. | Continue reading
Human beings stampede. We always have. But technology has taken our ancient impulses and put them on warp speed. | Continue reading
We are a decade into the largest epidemic of adolescent mental illness ever recorded. It’s time we started treating social media like automobiles and firearms. | Continue reading
Does the outer space into which we dissolve taste of us at all? | Continue reading
Our last great film star should get his first Academy Award—not just for producing ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ but for bailing out the movie industry. | Continue reading
Tucker Carlson on Trump. AOC’s gown grift. America’s hottest terrorists. Plus, Congress calls me a cuckold. | Continue reading
Listen now (49 min) | Honestly presents Chapter 1 of The Witch Trails of J.K. Rowling Host Megan Phelps-Roper writes a letter to J.K. Rowling—and receives a surprising invitation in reply: the opportunity for an intimate conversation in Rowling’s Scottish home. Learn … | Continue reading
Yesterday, protesters stormed our Jerusalem office over judicial reform proposals. Is this what democracy looks like? | Continue reading
‘The only healthy endgame for ESG is another acronym: RIP. And it will not be a moment too soon.’ | Continue reading
A wide-ranging conversation with the woman who believes she can beat Trump. Plus: the latest episode of The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling. | Continue reading
‘I like Nikki Haley,’ one 18-year-old attendee quietly confided to me. | Continue reading
A lab leak in Wuhan may have led to the outbreak of Covid. So what were scientists doing there? And why? | Continue reading
Columbia is the first Ivy League university to abandon standardized tests in the name of ‘equity.’ It's disadvantaged students like me who will suffer. | Continue reading
Anyone who loves the Jewish state should be speaking out against its proposed judicial reform. Matti Friedman writes. | Continue reading
One stanza of poetry captures the pleasure of holding another person. | Continue reading
The war on pain has not only robbed us of resilience. It has sold us a mirage that is making us miserable. | Continue reading
Murdaugh’s a murderer. Lightfoot’s a loser. Ghislaine goes hungry. Plus, the latest scary TikTok trend. | Continue reading
‘I realized that my own side was led by a bunch of incompetents and ideologues who had taken our country down a path of destruction. And for what?’ | Continue reading
Listen now (74 min) | Last month, Nikki Haley announced she is running for President. Haley is someone who has consistently proven doubters wrong: she was the first female governor of South Carolina, she has never lost a race, she’s self-made, and she survived as U.S. Ambas … | Continue reading
Students say they are getting ‘screwed over’ for sticking to the rules. Professors say students are acting like ‘tyrants.’ Then came ChatGPT . . . | Continue reading
Face coverings do nothing to reduce the spread of Covid, according to a new, gold standard scientific review. | Continue reading
In his new Sunday column, Douglas Murray reveals how 14 lines of poetry gave him the fortitude for life. | Continue reading
We shot down four objects floating over U.S. airspace, but gave up looking for three. What were they exactly—and what is the government not telling us? | Continue reading
Robots replace academics. Another Dolezal. The censors come for Roald Dahl. Buttigieg blows it in Ohio. Plus: David Mamet on cowboys. | Continue reading
A train derailment and chemical explosion that ripped through an Ohio town earlier this month has left locals feeling sick, angry—and completely abandoned. | Continue reading
Listen now (37 min) | For the past two weeks, tens of thousands of people, most of them college students, poured into a small chapel at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. Some drove from South Carolina and Oklahoma. Others flew in from Canada and Singapore. They waited in li … | Continue reading
From day one of Putin’s invasion, photographer Lynsey Addario was on the ground capturing moments of ruin—and heroic resolve. One year later, she says it’s unlike any war she’s ever covered. | Continue reading
Listen to episodes one and two today. | Continue reading
‘You need to come back to chapel, something is happening.’ On the ground at the Asbury Revival. | Continue reading
How Boris Pasternak defied Soviet tyranny with a Shakespeare sonnet. | Continue reading
Yes, the legacy institutions are shrinking. But thousands of small players in music, publishing, and the arts are powering a new golden age of artistry. | Continue reading