The Debanking of America - by Rupa Subramanya
What do Muslims, January 6 rioters, and Melania Trump all have in common? They were kicked off the financial grid.| www.thefp.com
What do Muslims, January 6 rioters, and Melania Trump all have in common? They were kicked off the financial grid.| www.thefp.com
Being young and Republican is often seen as a contradiction in terms. But Olivia Reingold talks to the young people excited to vote Trump—especially after the assassination attempt.| www.thefp.com
I’ve been watching birds for close to 30 years. Yet the overwhelming sensation of physical excitement when I head outside with binoculars has never left me, writes Jonathan Rosen for The Free Press.| The Free Press
Amy Coney Barrett at Lincoln Center. Aristocratic tutoring for a new age. A defense of inequality. The UK free speech crisis. And much more.| The Free Press
From high-speed rail lines to nuclear plants, China has reshaped its landscape in a single generation. The U.S. can barely finish a subway extension, writes Dan Wang for The Free Press.| The Free Press
A new book sheds light on the forgotten inventor of the modern American right. Check out Matthew Continetti’s review.| The Free Press
In a rare public appearance, the Supreme Court justice tells The Free Press, ‘The Constitution is alive and well.’| The Free Press
The White House aims at Rosie O’Donnell. Everything counts as a tip when tips aren’t taxed. Tucker tries out a new 9/11-truth vibe. Check on the Democrats in your life. And much more.| The Free Press
How do we respect every person’s dignity while also cultivating excellence? Nearly every university has decided to answer that question by abandoning the latter. Not mine, writes Carlos Carvalho.| The Free Press
Another reason to not trust the ‘experts.’ The meaning of ‘dropout graduations.’ The extraordinary life of a basketball legend. And much more.| The Free Press
If incumbent New York City mayor Eric Adams drops out of the race, Andrew Cuomo’s struggling campaign would likely get an immediate boost against frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, writes Olivia Reingold. But is there enough time to catch him?| The Free Press
The International Association of Genocide Scholars calls itself a body of experts, but joining requires only a form and a fee. Members include parody accounts like ‘Mo Cookie' and ‘Emperor Palpatine.’| The Free Press
Zohran Mamdani hasn’t said a lot about his plans for New York City’s schools. But what he has said is alarming, Mayor Bloomberg’s former school chief argues.| The Free Press
When my friend was born, he was legally considered less than fully human. Then he became a legend—standing beside Martin Luther King Jr. and helping orchestrate Michael Jordan’s iconic Nike deal.| The Free Press
Five years ago, Kansas City eliminated bus fares, just as Zohran Mamdani promises to do in New York. Guess what? It didn’t work, writes Charles Lane.| The Free Press
Judge Glock argues that rent control is doomed to fail.| The Free Press
A generation of ambitious young Americans believe the future belongs not to the credentialed but the self-taught, writes Sean Fischer.| The Free Press
People think the Supreme Court is about promoting justice. It’s really about judging what the law requires, writes Amy Coney Barrett for The Free Press.| The Free Press
Graham Linehan on being thrown in a cell for a tweet. Brendan O’Neill on the UK’s working-class revolt. Jonathan Haidt joins The Free Press. And much more.| The Free Press
Listen now: Russia’s information war against the West is a century-old mind game that still warps American politics.| The Free Press
Five British police officers just arrested a comedian for his posts on X. As J.K. Rowling put it: ‘This is totalitarianism. Utterly deplorable.’| The Free Press
I was arrested at Heathrow, thrown in a cell, rushed to hospital as my blood pressure spiked, and then silenced online—all for posting on social media, writes Graham Lindehan for The Free Press.| www.thefp.com
A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism. Click to read The Free Press, by Bari Weiss, a Substack publication.| www.thefp.com
You can teach very little children to read. I did. You just need to pretend like you’re in the 1700s, writes Erik Hoel.| www.thefp.com
Suzy Weiss on culture this week: Taylor Swift’s mission accomplished. Checking in on Cracker Barrel. Why’s everyone talking about K-pop demons? And more!| www.thefp.com
Some blame transgenderism for the murders in Minneapolis. Some blame antisemitism. Others blame America’s gun culture and mental illness. But it’s deeper than that, writes Peter Savodnik—And darker.| www.thefp.com
In a conversation with The Free Press, Norman Podhoretz lifts the veil on his famous journey from the slums of Brooklyn to the peak of Manhattan’s intellectual aristocracy.| www.thefp.com
Jew-hatred and Christianity are incompatible, writes the Archbishop of New York.| www.thefp.com
My whole life, I’ve wanted to feel what it’s like to fly. Riding a motorcycle is the closest I’ve come, writes Agnes Callard.| www.thefp.com
Our critics can call us any name they like. That doesn’t change the facts.| www.thefp.com
Free speech advocate Greg Lukianoff has spent a lot of time worrying about the threat to free speech from the left. But now, he has to worry equally—if not more—about threats from the right.| www.thefp.com
Ella Emhoff suffers from climate anxiety. Isabelle Boemeke wants to teach her, and everyone else, how to stop worrying and love the power plant.| www.thefp.com
A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism. Click to read The Free Press, by Bari Weiss, a Substack publication.| www.thefp.com
Once shunned, globalization’s doubters turned out to be right about its destructive economic and social consequences. What do they think of what Trump is doing?| www.thefp.com
The American people have been enormously generous to our universities; it is time for schools to honor their end of the bargain, writes Christopher F. Rufo.| www.thefp.com
America is now just as intent on changing the structure of the world order as Russia and China.| www.thefp.com
‘The choice was between a slow canoe ride through more of the same, or a roller coaster. Americans chose the roller coaster.’| www.thefp.com
The White House wants to make it easier to impose psychiatric care on homeless people who suffer from severe mental illness. Can they actually pull it off?| www.thefp.com
There has been a 670% increase in antisemitic incidents in the past year. ‘It was like a dam burst.’ What happened and why? The Free Press investigates.| www.thefp.com
U.S. government officials think they are hurting China by banning tech exports. In fact, they are doing the Chinese a big favor, writes Richard Vigilante.| www.thefp.com
Our readers write in to reflect on elites vs. experts, how Trump helped Carney win in Canada, and more.| www.thefp.com
Ideological fanatics and fear have crippled the major houses. But new book publishers are rising up to take the risks they won’t.| www.thefp.com
Only one air force has the power to finish off Iran’s last standing nuclear enrichment site, write the noted historian and the former Israeli defense minister.| www.thefp.com
My father grew up in a mud hut in India. America gave him—and me—a life. Now technologists like me need to give back.| www.thefp.com
A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism. Click to read The Free Press, by Bari Weiss, a Substack publication.| www.thefp.com
We can’t rely on the small number of earthbound saints willing to save a life. Not with almost 91,000 people awaiting a kidney.| www.thefp.com
A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism. Click to read The Free Press, by Bari Weiss, a Substack publication.| www.thefp.com
This is perhaps the worst economic own goal I have seen in my lifetime.| www.thefp.com
Thousands of mental health professionals have signed a complaint accusing the world’s largest psychological organization of growing antisemitism.| www.thefp.com
The serial rape of thousands of English girls went on for many years. Few in power cared. Then Elon Musk started tweeting.| www.thefp.com
At home, Yale Law School and DEI committees are out. Abroad, strength and escalation are in.| www.thefp.com
Many senior Democrats have decided to ignore the fact that the party is out of touch on a range of cultural issues like race, gender, and immigration.| www.thefp.com
It’s sold as an easy way to make money and help others. Nobody mentions the long-term risks. ‘I never saw this coming.’| www.thefp.com
The Silicon Valley billionaire made big—and early—bets on Trump and J.D. Vance. What did he see that so many didn’t?| www.thefp.com
Forty years ago the party was in the political wilderness. Then a band of centrist insurgents took on the left wing—and got Clinton in the White House.| www.thefp.com
There is a well-coordinated, national effort between teachers, activist organizations, and administrators to indoctrinate American children against Israel. A Free Press investigation.| www.thefp.com
Steven Pinker on why smart people believe stupid things. A whistleblower faces ten years. Decolonizing the drugstore. And much more.| https://www.thefp.com/
Why do we have a crisis of trust? Because the experts keep lying. Joe Biden is only the latest example.| https://www.thefp.com/
Fancy-sounding academic jargon is not a curious intellectual exercise. Words make worlds. Words make nightmares.| https://www.thefp.com/
A government with a permanent deficit and a bloated military. A bogus ideology pushed by elites. Poor health among ordinary people. Senescent leaders. Sound familiar?| https://www.thefp.com/
Caught in a brutal divorce, Catherine Kassenoff committed medically assisted suicide. Then the campaign to destroy her ex-husband truly began.| https://www.thefp.com/
Congress can grant any American permission to be a pirate. A.J. Jacobs found out what happens when you apply.| https://www.thefp.com/
‘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.’| www.thefp.com
Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.| www.thefp.com
Amid growing claims that schools indoctrinate students, ‘classical education’—which teaches kids to think critically and master old books—is making a comeback.| www.thefp.com
Tip more than you should. Listen to Loveline. Don’t be the smartest person in the room. And other bits of wisdom from a former foster kid.| www.thefp.com
What scientists are able to teach and what research we can pursue are under attack. I know because I’m living it, writes biologist Luana Maroja.| www.thefp.com
It’s not about diversity, equity, or inclusion. It is about arrogating power to a movement that threatens not just Jews—but America itself.| www.thefp.com
Anyone who has a naive belief in the power of higher education to instill morality has not studied the history of German universities in the Third Reich.| www.thefp.com
I’ve spent years trying to understand the mental health crisis among teenage girls. But both sexes are suffering.| www.thefp.com
A Thanksgiving treat from the most delightful man on planet Earth.| www.thefp.com
Last week, a federal appeals court confirmed that science cannot function without free speech. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reflects on a victory for himself—and every American.| https://www.thefp.com/
The app is digital fentanyl made by China. And it is brainwashing our youth against the country and our allies, argues Rep. Mike Gallagher.| www.thefp.com
The left’s reaction to the massacre in Israel has many progressive Jews in the West rethinking their past activism, political affiliations, and friendships.| www.thefp.com
My country, and others, found there is no solid evidence supporting the medical transitioning of young people. Why aren’t American clinicians paying attention?| www.thefp.com
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.| www.thefp.com
Plus: the power of a bad idea. And the college donor revolt continues.| www.thefp.com
Microaggressions are met with moral condemnation. But actual violence is tolerated—even glorified. On the rot inside our universities and what to do about it.| www.thefp.com
Let’s make sure my cancellation is the last. That begins by standing up and saying no to the mob.| www.thefp.com
A conversation with Sam Altman, the man behind ChatGPT, about the risks and responsibilities of the artificial intelligence revolution.| www.thefp.com
‘They are training people who will not be able to see half the population as human beings who need compassionate treatment.’| https://www.thefp.com/
Artificial intelligence won’t end civilization, argues Marc Andreessen. Just the opposite. It is quite possibly the best thing human beings have ever created.| https://www.thefp.com/
Teams of employees were tasked with suppressing the visibility of accounts or subjects deemed undesirable or dangerous—all in secret, without informing users.| www.thefp.com
A working-class student. A star soccer player. And the ominous emails from all-powerful administrators.| www.thefp.com
Britain is closing the infamous Tavistock Centre. Finland and Sweden have radically revised their treatment guidelines. But American doctors are advertising surgeries to children on TikTok.| www.thefp.com
I suspect I’m the only student at Cambridge University who lived out of garbage bags as a child. Here’s why I didn’t live the life I was meant to.| www.thefp.com
