Join us this Wednesday for a subscriber-only event. Plus: watch the recording from last week’s event about the sorry state of high school debate. | Continue reading
John James Audubon owned slaves. The famous conservation organization bearing his name is now riven over what to do about this history. | Continue reading
John Keats, who died tragically with little renown at 25, wrote poignant poems that eventually gave him everlasting life. | Continue reading
A conversation with the longevity expert about his new book 'Outlive'—and what makes life worth living in the first place. | Continue reading
Prince Harry gets sued. James Beard winners are exposed. BLM’s cofounder loses her Warner Brothers deal. Plus: Biden stumbles again. | Continue reading
Listen now (78 min) | It’s almost hard to believe, but in the 1950s doctors were frequently portrayed in TV commercials for. . . cigarettes. That’s because smoking wasn’t just seen as cool and glamorous, but as an actual health-enhancing activity. Fast-forward t … | Continue reading
The Dutch government wants farmers to give up their land to save the planet. They're fighting back. | Continue reading
Find the link here for our live event at 5:00pm PST this Thursday, June 1. | Continue reading
Why are Kennedy and Marianne Williamson polling so highly against Biden? Says one Democratic backer: ‘There’s a reckoning coming.’ | Continue reading
A subscriber-only event this Thursday with James Fishback and high school debaters. | Continue reading
If we are to honor all those who’ve died in our names, we must remember each individual soul. On this Memorial Day, I pay tribute to Private First Class Joseph Knott. | Continue reading
Condemned to ten years in the gulag, the scholar sat in her cell and translated an epic poem—all 16,000 lines—from memory. | Continue reading
Canadians say yes to death. South Koreans say no to birth. Plus: DeSantis, flat-earthers, a Citi Bike Karen—and Bezos’s amazing love boat. | Continue reading
At national tournaments, judges are making their stances clear: students who argue ‘capitalism can reduce poverty’ or ‘Israel has a right to defend itself’ will lose—no questions asked. | Continue reading
They see death as a software error—and they have a plan for fixing it. But should they? | Continue reading
In a fit of pique, Florida’s governor decided to go after one of America’s most beloved companies. It could cost him the presidency. | Continue reading
Listen now (56 min) | Earlier today, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott entered the race for President. That makes him the sixth Republican candidate to get into the race, in a crowded attempt to beat the current frontrunner, former President Donald Trump. So for today’s epis … | Continue reading
‘How you help them learn to be present, in a task or with a relationship, is one of the top challenges of our generation. Part of that is going to be saying no.’ | Continue reading
The great Romantic poet lived fast, died young, and scorched it all onto the page. | Continue reading
Plus: The Great Light Beer War of 2023 in today’s culture war double feature. | Continue reading
Pickleballers must be stopped—for the good of the courts and the nation. | Continue reading
Can stoking the culture wars make a can of suds relevant? | Continue reading
Pickleballers must be stopped—for the good of the courts and the nation. | Continue reading
Polygamy is in. DeSantis and #MeToo are out. Plus, conservatives save an anarchist coffee shop. | Continue reading
That’s the big reveal in the 306-page Durham report. | Continue reading
For those of you who missed last night's Zoom with Peter Savodnik, Rupa Subramanya, Nadia Robinson, Danardo Jones, and Ryan Handlarski. | Continue reading
In 1948, a handful of Jews performed an act of political resurrection when they re-established a state in the land of Israel. Daniel Gordis asks: Has it fulfilled its founders’ dreams? | Continue reading
Listen now (96 min) | Seventy-five years ago this week, the Jewish community of Palestine (known as the yishuv) gathered in the art museum of Tel Aviv—then a city of less than 200,000 inhabitants—in order to perform a resurrection. Thirty-seven people—36 men and … | Continue reading
‘They are training people who will not be able to see half the population as human beings who need compassionate treatment.’ | Continue reading
Join FP reporters and sources for an exclusive conversation about an approach to criminal justice poised to reshape our legal system. | Continue reading
Many of the people who argued vehemently against giving men the benefit of the doubt during MeToo now expect women to shrug off menacing men on the subway. | Continue reading
At the national Hebrew Bible Quiz, kids try to answer questions even rabbis don’t know. ‘Yeah,’ says one 12-year-old, ‘it’s nerdy.’ | Continue reading
As C. Day Lewis wrote for his own son, ‘love is proved in the letting go.’ | Continue reading
I spent years desperately trying to solve the mystery of my son’s illness. A chance encounter with another mother changed my life—and is now poised to change his. | Continue reading
The ‘pariah of Silicon Valley’ on China, TikTok, AI, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, Florida and California, God, new moonshots, and how to make America great again. | Continue reading
Trump & Tucker are baaack. The Bidens make bank. George Santos finally gets busted. Plus, the culture war over Cleopatra. | Continue reading
Listen now (76 min) | A few years ago, writer and cartoonist Tim Urban started becoming troubled by what he saw going on in the world around him. He noticed that while technology was progressing in unbelievable ways—people were going to space on private rocket ships and com … | Continue reading
Capitalism’s brutal lessons for BuzzFeed, Vice, Gawker. And: Will Tucker Carlson’s Twitter bet pay off? | Continue reading
Comics like Dave Chappelle and Roseanne Barr are free to do ‘third rail stand-up’ at Rogan’s new club. ‘We don’t do it as an alternative to comedy. We do it because that is comedy,’ he tells The FP. | Continue reading
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