FP Behind the Scenes: The Hijacking of High School Debate

Find the link here for our live event at 5:00pm PST this Thursday, June 1. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

RFK Jr. and the Populist Wave

Why are Kennedy and Marianne Williamson polling so highly against Biden? Says one Democratic backer: ‘There’s a reckoning coming.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Let’s Talk About That High School Debate Story

A subscriber-only event this Thursday with James Fishback and high school debaters. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

H. R. McMaster: The Soldiers I Remember

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


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Things Worth Remembering: The Extraordinary Courage of Tatiana Gnedich

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


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

The Time Billionaires

A concept that changed my life. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

TGIF: Cruising for a Bruising

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


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

At High School Debates, Debate Is No Longer Allowed

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


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

The Tech Messiahs Who Want to Deliver Us from Death

They see death as a software error—and they have a plan for fixing it. But should they? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Disney v. DeSantis: The Mouse Bites Back

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


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Get To Know Tim Scott: The GOP’s Newest Presidential Hopeful

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


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

The Parents Saying No to Smartphones

‘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


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

Things Worth Remembering: Lord Byron’s Zest for Life

The great Romantic poet lived fast, died young, and scorched it all onto the page. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

Down With Pickleball! Long Live Tennis

Plus: The Great Light Beer War of 2023 in today’s culture war double feature. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

Death to Pickleball! Long Live Tennis

Pickleballers must be stopped—for the good of the courts and the nation. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

The Great Lite Beer War of 2023!

Can stoking the culture wars make a can of suds relevant? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

Death to Pickeball. Long Live Tennis!

Pickleballers must be stopped—for the good of the courts and the nation. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

TGIF: The Suburbs Are Back!

Polygamy is in. DeSantis and #MeToo are out. Plus, conservatives save an anarchist coffee shop. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

The FBI Didn’t Persecute Hillary. It Protected Her.

That’s the big reveal in the 306-page Durham report. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

Event Recording: Is Justice Still Blind in Canada?

For those of you who missed last night's Zoom with Peter Savodnik, Rupa Subramanya, Nadia Robinson, Danardo Jones, and Ryan Handlarski. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

Miracles and Madness: Israel at 75

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


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

Israel at 75: Miracles and Madness

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


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

How Therapists Became Social Justice Warriors

‘They are training people who will not be able to see half the population as human beings who need compassionate treatment.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Live Event Tomorrow: The End of Blind Justice?

Join FP reporters and sources for an exclusive conversation about an approach to criminal justice poised to reshape our legal system. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

What Neither Side Gets Right About Jordan Neely’s Death

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Front Row at the World Series for Teenage Bible Scholars

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Things Worth Remembering: A Poem for Parents

As C. Day Lewis wrote for his own son, ‘love is proved in the letting go.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

When Motherhood Requires Lifting a Whole World Off Its Axis

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Weekend Listening: Peter Thiel Says We Have Bigger Problems Than Wokeness

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: The Greatest Show on Earth

Trump & Tucker are baaack. The Bidens make bank. George Santos finally gets busted. Plus, the culture war over Cleopatra. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

America Needs a Self-Help Book. Tim Urban's Got One.

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Race for Clicks Was a Fool’s Game

Capitalism’s brutal lessons for BuzzFeed, Vice, Gawker. And: Will Tucker Carlson’s Twitter bet pay off? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Can Joe Rogan Make Austin the Comedy Capital of America?

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Why Steven Crowder’s Marriage Matters

Treating your wife like an indentured servant is not conservative, writes Bethany Mandel. It’s abusive. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Is Justice Still Blind in Canada?

Equality under the law is the cornerstone of liberal democracy. But judges across the country are now factoring race into sentencing. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Things Worth Remembering: The Poet Who Captured Immortality

Stephen Spender was not a great poet. But he came close to greatness when he wrote about those who were. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

King Peter Pan III

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: Writers of the World, Unite!

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

There Is No Turning Back on AI

The only question is: will we learn how to live in moving history? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

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