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Why Are So Many College Students "Disabled?"
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- Why Are So Many College Students "Disabled?"
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- 1:58
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Over 20 percent of Brown and Harvard students now claim disabilities.
“When students get extra time they don’t need, they’re being taught that claiming a disability and finding loopholes is how to get ahead,” argues Daniel Idfresne.
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- We Need to Be Honest About the Migrant Problem in Minneapolis
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- 10:28
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Will Rahn speaks with Reihan Salam about the Minnesota welfare fraud scandal and what it reveals about government oversight, immigration, and assimilation in America.
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- When Elites Turn Evil
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- 0:47
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Symptoms of Decay Are Everywhere
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- 0:44
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- The Moral Collapse of America’s Ruling Class | Dominic Green
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- 1:02:38
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” This famous line from The Leopard has become a shorthand for moments when a ruling order senses its own looming downfall.
And it feels eerily relevant now, in an age when the liberal order we cherish seems increasingly unsteady. We are living in a moment when we shout “regime decline” from the rooftops. Lampedusa’s classic novel is about what it feels like to live inside history—inside the collapse of a social order and the disorientation that accompanies the fall of a ruling class.
In this episode, historian Dominic Green joins Shilo Brooks to explore why today’s American and British establishments resemble that fading aristocracy: oligarchic, overregulated, technologically backward, and increasingly contemptuous of the people they rule.
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- Why The EU Is Really Fining X $140 million
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- The EU is fining X $140 million. It’s “about making platform owners like Elon Musk, who refuses to police speech on behalf of European regulators, bend the knee,” argues Esther Krakue.
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- Should Assisted Suicide Be Legal?
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- 0:57
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Two Medical Experts Debate: Assisted Suicide
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- 1:28:47
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- One of the most complex medical, ethical, moral, and religious questions of our era is that of physician-assisted suicide—also known as Medical Aid in Dying, or MAID.
Eleven U.S. states and Washington, D.C. have legalized some form of MAID for terminally ill patients. And New York might join them.
Over the summer, a Medical Aid in Dying Act passed New York’s state legislature. It is now sitting on Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk as she decides whether to sign it into law.
Under the proposed New York bill, terminally ill adults with a prognosis of six months or less to live would be able to access a prescribed, self-administered life-ending medication.
Supporters argue that this is a compassionate option—one that can relieve people of immense pain and suffering, allowing patients to choose when and where they die, and to do so surrounded by loved ones.
Opponents see this as a violation of physicians’ fundamental oat...
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- London Now Averages 320 Stolen Phones a Day
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- 1:22
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- London now averages 320 stolen phones a day.
Esther Krakue was on Oxford Street for five minutes before her friend’s phone was taken. “This is Mayor Sadiq Khan’s London where phone theft, just like knife crime, and antisocial behavior have become normal.
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- Abigail Shrier Gives Nellie Bowles Advice
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- 2:01
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- "How do I build a sense of stability while also feeling like the world is falling apart."
Abigail Shrier answers Nellie Bowles in the first edition of her new Tough Love column at TheFP.com.
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- Hard Truth: The World Doesn't Revolve Around You.
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Stop Scrolling. Start Living.
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- 0:40
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- The West’s Crisis of Meaning—and Finding Our Way Out | Ryan Holiday
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- 1:00:43
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- According to Ryan Holiday, Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer is like the better, more mature cousin to The Catcher in the Rye. In this episode, Shilo Brooks sits down with the author and Daily Stoic founder to discuss the quiet Southern novel set in postwar New Orleans.
The book follows a Korean War veteran who has money, women, and a respectable job but whose inner life is defined by existential malaise and a spiritual itch that he calls “the search.” In the end, he resigns himself to the humdrum responsibilities of marriage and everyday life. Brooks and Holiday explore the book’s philosophical themes and its continued relevance in a media-saturated world where many of us, still starved for meaning, try to turn our own existence into a social-media performance.
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- Inside Trump’s ICE Raids—with the MAGA Mom Fighting Back
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- 13:56
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- When I met Aleah Arundale outside her home in Chicago a few weeks ago, she greeted me dressed in a sequined American flag skirt and a sweatshirt with “USA” printed on the front.
Arundale is the type of person who is hard to fit in a box. She’s loud and boisterous, and not just in her fashion choices. She’ll tell you she voted for Donald Trump in the last election because she felt the left had gone too far on social issues impacting her two young kids. She’ll also tell you she agreed with Trump’s pledge to shut down the border and stop the flow of illegal migrants coming into America.
But even as immigration has become perhaps the most charged issue in our politics over the last decade, Arundale has dedicated the last three years of her life to assisting Venezuelan migrant families settle in Chicago—helping them file for asylum, get out of the shelters, find work, food, schooling, and anything else they may need to begin building a life in America...
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- The MAGA Mom Helping Venezuelan Immigrants
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- 2:41
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- “There is a big difference between making sure new people come here legally and this sick, demented, you know, torture that we’re doing to people that are already here.”
The FP’s Tanya Lukyanova and Frannie Block spent the day with Aleah Arundale, the MAGA supporter who fights to protect her Venezuelan neighbors from ICE raids.
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- The Minnesota Fraud Scandal Was Enabled by DEI
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Feeding Our Future didn’t just commit fraud, they weaponized DEI, argues Esther Krakue.
The nonprofit told Minnesota officials that if they didn’t fast-track “minority-owned” applicants, they’d be hit with a racism lawsuit “sprawled across the news.”
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- A Man Should Know: How To Say Thank You
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- 0:49
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- "When writing a thank-you note, a few lines are enough. Thank the recipient, highlight for them a few specifics that you enjoyed from your time together, maybe a fun moment or something interesting they said. This is typically enough," writes Elliot Ackerman.
Read his full piece "A Man Should Know: How To Say Thank You" at TheFP.com.
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- The Real Poverty LIne
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- 1:11
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Wall Street strategist Michael Green says the poverty line isn’t $31,200. It’s $140,000.
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- How it feels to be a new American 🇺🇸
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Land Acknowledgements Are A Horrible Idea
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- "Once the logic of land acknowledgements and “decolonization” is followed, it leads very quickly to some very dark futures," argues Noah Smith.
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- Wellness Start-Up Turned S*x Cult.
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- "The Second Amendment is a RIGHT" NRA Spokesperson Dana Loesch
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Trump Signs Executive Order on Muslim Brotherhood
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- President Trump has issued an executive order targeting violent Muslim Brotherhood chapters and offshoots.
“This is one of the most significant counterterrorism directives in decades.”
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- The 14-Year-Old Running for Governor of Vermont
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Dean Roy is three months into his freshman year at Stowe High School in Vermont. By most measures, he’s a normal 14-year-old: He runs cross-country and likes Formula 1. In the winter, he enjoys Nordic skiing and tapping maple trees for syrup with his family.
He’s also running for governor of Vermont.
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- Inside OneTaste: The Wellness Trend That Hid a Sex Cult
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- 1:03:24
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
It’s not every day we witness the downfall of a pro-orgasm wellness guru. But in June 2025, a federal jury sent founder—and alleged cult leader—Nicole Daedone to jail.
Two decades earlier, Daedone had founded OneTaste, a global wellness company promising sexual education, empowerment, and even enlightenment.
The company’s signature offering was a 15-minute clitoral-stroking method called “orgasmic meditation,” or OM, supplemented by for-purchase demonstrations, workshops, and retreats for members to immerse themselves in the practice. The goal was to make OM as common as yoga or meditation. “Do you want to OM?” was meant to reverberate across the San Francisco wellness community.
At its peak, OneTaste drew endorsements from Gwyneth Paltrow, Khloé Kardashian, Theo Von, and Tim Ferriss. But behind closed doors, a very different reality wa...
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- Alan Dershowitz vs. Dana Loesch Debate: Gun Control.
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- 1:09:50
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3SgfX5J
There are more civilian-owned firearms in the United States than in any other nation on earth. To many, gun ownership is the ultimate expression of our freedom and of the promise that power ultimately resides with the people, not the state. But they are also part of the reason that we have more gun deaths than anywhere else in the developed world.
The debate on guns in America stems from a single sentence from our Bill of Rights, written in 1791: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
That sentence—the Second Amendment of our Constitution, and the question of whether America would be safer without it—was the focus of our final live debate of 2025, held before a packed house at Chicago’s Studebaker Theater. On stage were two formidable debaters: attorn...
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- Confessions of a Former Pro-Palestine Activist
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- 2:07
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- “I truly did not know how horrific October 7 was. I never saw any of this footage on my feed. I never saw anyone repost it. I didn’t know even about the Nova music festival itself...There’s just so much more information I didn’t know. And I think that my story isn’t unique on the pro-Palestine side. I think a lot of people joined the movement without having all of these facts.”
Former pro-Palestine activist Taryn Thomas talks about how groupthink and her social media algorithm prevented her from learning the truth about the 2023 terrorist attacks on Israel.
Find the full interview "Confessions of a Former Pro-Palestine Activist" on YouTube.
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- Is the American Dream Dead?
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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- America's Founding Contradiction.
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- 1:21
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- The Founders’ Blueprint for Saving America | Walter Isaacson
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- 50:43
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Walter Isaacson is known for writing the definitive biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk. But his new book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, is not a biography at all. It’s an analysis—and a dissection—of the words that defined American history and shape our political imagination:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Most of us know this version by heart. But the original formulation read: “We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness.”
These edits may seem minor. But shifting words lik...
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- Big Tech Has Sabotaged Young Men
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Former Pro-Palestine Activist: We Were Told "Do Not Interact With Zionists"
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- 1:52
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- “It was definitely drilled into our minds that debate with Zionists was useless because they don’t care about the babies getting slaughtered…If you did go out of your way to interact with Zionists, you were going against the camp and what the established rules were…It created an echo chamber.”
Former pro-Palestine activist Taryn Thomas explains how she was told to “never interact” with Zionists.
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- The Quarter Zip Movement Is About More Than Fashion
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- 1:51
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- The Quarter Zip Movement isn’t only about fashion—it’s a mindset. It’s young men saying, “How I show up matters,” argues Esther Krakue.
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- You're Boring. Read Something.
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Why Elites Don't Understand the Poor
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Confessions of a Former Pro-Palestine Activist
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Former pro-Palestine activist Taryn Thomas explains how she was sucked into the anti-Israel movement:
“I just assumed that as a leftist, I should also be pro-Palestine, even if I don't know all of the facts…. If you are silent on the matter, you are contributing to that genocide. And anything that was not super pro-Palestine and even just saying, like, you know, ‘I believe in a two-state solution’ seemed against Palestine….”
Watch the full conversation: https://www.thefp.com/p/confessions-of-a-former-pro-palestine?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=video&utm_content=article
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- What the Rich Keep Getting Wrong About Poverty | Rob Henderson
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- 1:00:45
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Most of us have read 1984 or Animal Farm. But fewer know of George Orwell’s first great work—an unvarnished account of his descent into the world of society’s outcasts. In this episode of Old School, Shilo Brooks sits down with Rob Henderson to discuss Down and Out in Paris and London, which is inspired by Orwell’s real-life plunge into the slums of two great European cities.
Henderson draws on his own trajectory from foster care and poverty to the rarefied worlds of Yale, Cambridge, and elite culture. Their conversation examines why people with privilege so often misunderstand the realities of the poor, how poverty shapes the mind and spirit, and what Orwell ultimately discovered about the divisions—and the common ground—between classes.
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- Confessions of a Former Pro-Palestine Activist
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- 44:52
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
When I saw a viral video of Taryn Thomas speaking at an October 7, 2025, vigil at Stanford, I knew she was unique. That’s because only two years before, she was a part of the pro-Palestine movement on her campus.
After Hamas’s attack on Israel, Thomas took part in the first encampments that appeared on campuses across the country and fully submitted to the groupthink that Hamas was a legitimate resistance group. She marched with people who wouldn’t dare associate with Zionists, and accepted an invitation to see the Nova exhibit in Los Angeles only so she could report back to her friends about the “Zionist propaganda.”
But that’s not what happened. Thomas says seeing evidence of the Nova festival and what truly happened on October 7 opened her eyes. In the months that followed, she took a trip to Israel, listened to the firsthand experiences of Israelis and...
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- AI Is Coming for Our Children
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- 1:52
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Like social media, AI poses an immense risk to our children.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt: “We allowed some of the biggest, most powerful companies to test their products on our children—with no guardrails, no control condition, and legal protection against liability…We’re about to make the same mistake in a much bigger way [with AI].”
Watch his full conversation with Bari Weiss: https://thefp.pub/4r2m91z
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- The War Inside the Conservative Movement
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- 1:03:23
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
Today, the American right is in a moment of profound chaos and dysfunction. Many conservatives are alarmed by the antisemitic rhetoric coming from Gen Z commentator Nick Fuentes and his nihilistic Groyper movement. At the same time, Candace Owens is floating conspiracy theories suggesting Israeli involvement in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. And Tucker Carlson—perhaps the most influential right-wing broadcaster—has taken a dark and conspiratorial turn. Even Marjorie Taylor Greene has broken publicly with President Trump over the Epstein files, attacking him on X and across cable news. There is infighting, division, mudslinging, and a general sense of disorientation.
To help make sense of all of this, I was joined on the most recent Free Press livestream by journalist and historian Sam Tanenhaus. His work traces the origins and evolution of the modern conservative movement,...
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- Nicki Minaj Speaks Up for Christians in Nigeria
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Why I Don’t Regret Leaving the Democratic Party
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- 0:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Evan Barker grew up a Democrat and worked for its biggest progressive stars. Then she voted for Trump—and watched her community turn on her.
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- Liberal Girls *Most* Harmed by Social Media
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Liberal girls were most harmed by social media, says Jonathan Haidt. “It started on Tumblr in 2013.”
“It’s the liberal girls who really rise first and fastest on depression…. Everyone is worse off, but being conservative seems to root you. You’re not as easily pushed into this crazy world.”
Watch the full episode of "Honestly with Bari Weiss" now.
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- The Muslim Brotherhood Media Empire Radicalizing Young Muslims
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- 2:16
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Muslim Brotherhood’s political wings are outlawed or marginalized across much of the Arab world. But its media apparatus is a main pillar of its survival, “designed to amplify Islamist ideology, sustain its networks in exile, and project influence far beyond where its political chapters may be,” writes Mariam Wahba.
Read Mariam's investigation: https://www.thefp.com/p/how-the-muslim-brotherhood-built-media-empire?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=video&utm_content=article
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- Social Media Is Killing Our Kids. Jonathan Haidt Has the Solution.
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- 1:15:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
You probably know Jonathan Haidt as the guy trying to save your kids from smartphones and social media apps. Bari sat down with the Anxious Generation author in front of a live audience in New York City to talk about how we got to this point—and where we go from here.
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- Why New York City Has 50,000 ‘Ghost Apartments’
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- 1:53
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The FP’s Lucy Biggers visits a rent-stabilized apartment that’s been empty since 2021, even as New York City faces a housing shortage. And this isn’t an outlier. Because of 2019 rental laws, an estimated 50,000 similar units sit vacant across the city.
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- A Man Should Know: How to Own a Watch
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- "I was wearing my watch the day my children were born, the night I met my wife, and the day we got married," writes Elliot Ackerman.
Read his full piece "A Man Should Know: How to Own a Watch" here: https://www.thefp.com/p/a-man-should-know-how-to-own-a-watch?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=organic-social
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- The Great Gatsby Exposes Our Sick Society
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- What Is Flying Actually Like??
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Has flying actually been a total nightmare?
Yesterday, on the last day of the government shutdown, The FP’s Austyn Jeffs flew from LA to Vegas to find out.
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- Why Journalism Is Broken Today
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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