TGIF: Death of the Tech Bro

RIP SVB, Facebook NFTs, 10,000 Meta employees. And say hello to reparations in San Francisco. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

A Church. The State. And a Holy War.

Calvary Chapel in Silicon Valley refused to close during the Covid lockdowns, arguing freedom of religion. Then the government surveillance began. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Why Men Seek Danger

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Humans Who Live as Lab Rats

Meet the men and women who get paid to be injected with brand-new wonder drugs. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Why Bank Runs Happen—and What We Can Do to Stop the Panic

Human beings stampede. We always have. But technology has taken our ancient impulses and put them on warp speed. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Things Worth Remembering: Rilke’s Eternal Question

Does the outer space into which we dissolve taste of us at all? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Tom Cruise Deserves An Oscar for ‘Saving Hollywood’s Ass’

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: ‘I Hate Him Passionately’

Tucker Carlson on Trump. AOC’s gown grift. America’s hottest terrorists. Plus, Congress calls me a cuckold. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Honestly Presents: The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Our Think Tank Sparked Mass Protests in Israel. We Proudly Stand By Our Ideas.

Yesterday, protesters stormed our Jerusalem office over judicial reform proposals. Is this what democracy looks like? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The ‘Giant Grift’ That Swallowed Wall Street—and Maybe Your Savings

‘The only healthy endgame for ESG is another acronym: RIP. And it will not be a moment too soon.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Why Nikki Haley Is Running for President

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Trump Dominates CPAC. But Young Conservatives Whisper ‘We Want Someone Else’

‘I like Nikki Haley,’ one 18-year-old attendee quietly confided to me. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Is Gain-of-Function Research a ‘Risk Worth Taking’? Or ‘Insanity’?

A lab leak in Wuhan may have led to the outbreak of Covid. So what were scientists doing there? And why? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Dropping the SATs Hurts Poor Kids

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

I Took Up Arms to Defend Israel. Now I March Against Its Government.

Anyone who loves the Jewish state should be speaking out against its proposed judicial reform. Matti Friedman writes. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Things Worth Remembering: W. H. Auden’s Poignant Embrace

One stanza of poetry captures the pleasure of holding another person. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Get Serious: About Suffering

The war on pain has not only robbed us of resilience. It has sold us a mirage that is making us miserable. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: Crime & Punishment

Murdaugh’s a murderer. Lightfoot’s a loser. Ghislaine goes hungry. Plus, the latest scary TikTok trend. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Rise of the Right-Wing Peacenik

‘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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Why Nikki Haley Is Running for President

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Dishonor Code: What Happens When Cheating Becomes the Norm?

Students say they are getting ‘screwed over’ for sticking to the rules. Professors say students are acting like ‘tyrants.’ Then came ChatGPT . . . | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Real Science on Masks: They Make No Difference

Face coverings do nothing to reduce the spread of Covid, according to a new, gold standard scientific review. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Things Worth Remembering: T. S. Eliot and the Passage of Time

In his new Sunday column, Douglas Murray reveals how 14 lines of poetry gave him the fortitude for life. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Secrets in Our Skies

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: Dignity for Oompa Loompas

Robots replace academics. Another Dolezal. The censors come for Roald Dahl. Buttigieg blows it in Ohio. Plus: David Mamet on cowboys. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

‘We Don’t Know What We Are Breathing’: A Report from East Palestine

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Can These Gen Zers Lead a Religious Revival?

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The War in Ukraine in Eight Photos

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Out Now: The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling

Listen to episodes one and two today. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Why Students in Kentucky Have Been Praying for 250 Hours

‘You need to come back to chapel, something is happening.’ On the ground at the Asbury Revival. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Introducing a Sunday Series from Douglas Murray: Things Worth Remembering

How Boris Pasternak defied Soviet tyranny with a Shakespeare sonnet. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

America’s Culture Is Booming. Really.

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: World Turned Upside Down

The blind should not see. The old should not live. An apocalyptic tragedy in Ohio. Plus: Is ‘The New York Times’ finally growing a spine? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Booming Market for Backdoor Ozempic

It’s not just celebrities. Women around the country are going to great lengths to procure ‘liquid gold’ in our bottomless appetite to be thin. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Will Ozempic Solve Obesity in America? A Debate

Listen now (78 min) | Ozempic, the brand name drug for a medication called semaglutide, is one of the most popular drugs on the market right now. Originally developed to treat type 2 diabetes, the injectable drug has recently boomed in popularity for its off-label use to help peo … | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Real-World Impact of Our Reporting

Whistleblowers, investigations and congressional hearings. Plus, a new audio series featuring J.K. Rowling. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

FP Forum: Jennifer Sey, One Year Later

Tune in Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. PST. Event info below. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling

‘You could not have misunderstood me more profoundly.’ A new audio series featuring extensive interviews with the world’s most successful author. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Why America Needs Football. Even Its Brutality.

We can pine for a new kind of human being who doesn’t crave violence. Or we can be happy we have the NFL. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Why 65 Percent of Fourth Graders Can’t Really Read

Emily Hanford reveals how America’s teachers adopted a flawed system for teaching reading to kids—and, as a result, completely failed them. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Why 65% of Fourth Graders Can't Really Read

Listen now (67 min) | For many parents, the last few years have been eye-opening, as they saw the education system in America crumble under the weight of the pandemic. School closures that went on far too long, ineffective zoom school for kids as young as kindergarten, and other … | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: Real Housewives of the SOTU

MTG talks trash. Trump goes soft. DeSantis tightens the screws on Mickey Mouse. Plus: The Free Press exclusive everyone’s talking about. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TONIGHT: Live Event With Whistleblower Jamie Reed

Join us at 6:00pm PST. Event details are below. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

A Conversation with Whistleblower Jamie Reed

Tonight at 6 pm PST. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.

There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Embracing God to Own the Libs

Andrew Tate and the rise of the political convert. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago