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Nick Cave on the Best Children’s Book Ever Written
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- Nick Cave on the Best Children’s Book Ever Written
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- 6 months ago
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- Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio is a dark, dazzling Italian fable that is worlds apart from Disney’s sanitized version. Beneath its fantasticism and humor, the story is brimming with poverty, violence, and existential peril. In this episode, Australian rock legend Nick Cave joins Shilo Brooks to talk about one of the best-selling and most widely translated books ever written.
Together, they explore how transgression and disobedience shape character and how art thrives in defiance of conformity. Cave reflects on how the story helped him process grief after the death of his son. In examining the puppet’s journey to becoming a real boy, Cave and Brooks consider how love and suffering make all of us real.
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- Inside the Shadow Migrant Workforce Delivering New York’s Dinner
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- 6 months ago
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- “Cities that claim to stand for equality have created one of the most visible and unregulated hierarchies in modern America: the deliverers and the delivered to,” writes Sagnik Basu.
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- Spiral: Murder In Detroit Episode 3
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- 6 months ago
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- “I may have murdered my girlfriend and I don’t remember it.”
That’s what Samantha Woll’s ex-boyfriend told police weeks after she was found stabbed to death. But he was later cleared of all wrongdoing and never charged.
Listen to episode 3 of “Spiral: Murder in Detroit.”
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- Bill Gates Admits Climate Change Isn't an Existential Threat
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- 6 months ago
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- Today, Bill Gates admitted that pushing climate doomerism was a mistake.
Lucy Biggers: “That shift to common sense is welcome, but it comes after decades of fearmongering that harmed young people, stalled development, and punished dissenting scientists.”
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- The Bulletproof Cheat Code for ChatGPT
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- 6 months ago
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- How Israel Fatally Underestimated Hamas | Yaakov Katz
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- 7 months ago
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- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
For years, no one believed Hamas wanted—or was even capable of—crossing the border into Israel.
Yaakov Katz has just cowritten the definitive account of what went wrong on October 7: the false assumptions, the ignored intelligence, the absence of human sources, and the political and military failures that led to the largest targeted massacre of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust.
Rafaela Siewert sits down with Katz to understand how Israel’s weakest enemy pulled off one of the most devastating attacks in its history—and what must change to ensure it never happens again.
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- The Companies Paying For Trump's Ballroom
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- 7 months ago
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- Some of the largest corporations in the world—Amazon, Apple, Google, crypto giant Coinbase, and defense contractors Lockheed Martin and Booz Allen Hamilton—are jockeying to foot the bill for Trump’s $300 million ballroom.
Gabe Kaminsky reports at TheFP.com.
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- The CEO of The Babylon Bee on the foolishness of ‘No Enemies to the Right’"
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- 7 months ago
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- This week, Seth Dillon, the CEO of The Babylon Bee, wrote a piece for us called "The Foolishness of 'No Enemies to the Right.'" He writes, "I’m in the business of mocking bad ideas. They’re on the right as well as the left."
Read his full piece here: https://www.thefp.com/p/the-foolishness-of-no-enemies-to-the-right
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- What's Next in Gaza? with Amit Segal
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- 7 months ago
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- Nearly two weeks ago, Hamas and Israel agreed to a historic ceasefire that was meant to bring all the hostages home. President Donald Trump called it “the dawn of a new Middle East.”
Phase one was simple: Return all the hostages—living and dead. While we celebrate that all the living hostages have come home, 13 of the deceased remain in Gaza.
Phase two promised something even bigger: an international peacekeeping force, a transitional government of technocrats, and the disarmament of Hamas. But that now feels further away than ever.
On Sunday, Israel accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire agreement by firing at Israeli troops and killing two soldiers. Israel responded with a wave of air strikes.
Meanwhile, Gaza is now effectively divided by a “yellow line” separating the area controlled by Hamas from the area controlled by Israel. Hamas has taken to the streets—kidnapping, torturing, and executing civilians in public—t...
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- Young People: Reject Nihilism
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- 7 months ago
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- The Mysterious Weed Syndrome Filling Emergency Rooms
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- 7 months ago
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- Some daily pot smokers are experiencing nonstop vomiting, involuntary screaming, and the worst pain of their lives. The only way to stop the symptoms? Stop getting high.
Read the piece at TheFP.com.
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- Young People Want More Than Society Is Offering.
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- 7 months ago
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- Finding Meaning in an Unjust World | Cornel West on Plato’s “Republic”
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- 7 months ago
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- What is justice? And why should we live justly? These questions lie at the heart of Plato’s Republic, the foundational text of Western philosophy. In building his utopian city, Plato reveals how the quest for perfect justice can slip into tyranny. Yet his call for relentless self-examination—for resisting nihilism and seeking meaning—remains a starting point for us all.
In this episode, Dr. Cornel West joins Shilo Brooks to discuss why ancient Greek philosophy remains relevant for all of us, regardless of race or background. Together, they argue that confronting Plato is a universal rite of passage for everyone seeking to overcome despair and live a good life. Plus: West critiques the corruption of American universities and political parties—especially the Democratic Party, which he declares “beyond redemption.”
Old School is proudly brought to you by the Jack Miller Center. If you believe in the importance of civic education and want to help prepa...
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- Drinking Your Way to Sobriety
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- 7 months ago
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- “The defining feature of my addiction was mental obsession… I had a compulsion to drink—an overwhelming mental obsession… I wanted that noise to stop and it did not stop for years.”
Katie Herzog on her struggle with alcoholism—and the unexpected way she finally overcame it. Watch the full episode of Honestly with Bari Weiss at TheFP.com.
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- Spiral: Murder In Detroit
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- 7 months ago
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- When the beloved president of Detroit’s last remaining synagogue, Samantha Woll, was murdered, the city was left reeling.
A year later, no one has been convicted and the details don’t add up.
Spiral: Murder in Detroit—a new podcast from The Free Press—takes you inside the case, and the family’s search for justice.
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- How Katie Herzog Drank Her Way to Sobriety
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- 7 months ago
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- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
If you’re listening to this, you probably know someone who has struggled with alcohol addiction, or maybe you’re an alcoholic yourself. It’s one of the most universal human experiences. In 2023, 10 percent of the U.S. population met the criteria for alcoholism. That’s 30 million people.
And throughout the past hundred or so years, there’s basically been one solution: total sobriety, talk therapy, and Alcoholics Anonymous. And yes, there are countless people ready and eager to say, “AA saved my life.” I know and love many of those people.
But as Katie Herzog writes: “The dominance of AA obscures the fact that other options exist too.” Okay, so what are these other options? One of them is a drug called naltrexone that can let alcoholics keep drinking—yes, you heard me right. Katie describes it as a chemical safety net that makes you want to drink les...
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- Will the Peace Hold in Gaza?
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- 7 months ago
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- Just over a week into the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, the fragile truce teetered on the edge of collapse this past weekend when Hamas operatives reportedly violated the agreement, prompting a wave of retaliatory strikes by the IDF.
Tanya Lukyanova reports for The FP.
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- Zohran Stumps at Terror-Linked Mosque
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- 7 months ago
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- On Thursday, New York City's mayoral front-runner condemned Hamas. On Friday, he turned up at a Brooklyn mosque with ties to terror.
Olivia Reingold reports for The FP.
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- Fired by Mark Zuckerberg to Founder of Anduril. Palmer Lucky Sits Down with Bari Weiss.
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Out now!
Bari Weiss sits down with Anduril founder Palmer Luckey. https://thefp.pub/3WH4Hl4
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- Girls. Gone. Bible.
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Young women are trading hookup culture for holiness. And they’re finding their tribe on the podcast Girls Gone Bible. https://thefp.pub/4opbsUr
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- Palmer Luckey and the Future of American Power
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- 7 months ago
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- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
A former Senate staffer recently told our friend, reporter Dexter Filkins: “The last socialist systems in the world are in Cuba and the Pentagon.” My guest tonight is trying to do something about that. And good luck to anyone trying to get in his way.
When people think of defense tech titans, they might not think of my guest tonight, Palmer Luckey. He looks more like Jimmy Buffett than George S. Patton. But don’t let his looks deceive you.
At the age of 19, Palmer founded the VR company Oculus. Two years later, it was acquired by Facebook for more than $2 billion. Then, when he was 24—while his peers were making dating apps and platforms to share thirst traps—he founded Anduril Industries, having had no experience whatsoever in the world of defense.
Now it’s a $30.5 billion company that develops drones, autonomous vehicles, subs, rockets, and ...
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- Climate Anxiety vs. Reality
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- 7 months ago
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- Climate Anxiety vs. Reality
“I’m a former climate activist who broke up with the movement and healed my climate anxiety. Now, I’m at a climate march to see if I can help heal others—with the facts.”
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- Who Was Samantha Woll?
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Who was Samantha Woll?
A new podcast from The Free Press Investigates, “Spiral: Murder in Detroit,” premieres October 21.
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- Diamonds Are Whatever
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- 7 months ago
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- Lab grown diamonds sell around a 90% discount, meaning a ring that would have been $30,000 just a few years ago can now go for just $3,000.
Suzy Weiss reports on the man-made stone dismantling the most enduring symbols of affluence.
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- MAGA and Marijuana Might Become Best Buds
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- 7 months ago
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- The president doesn’t smoke or drink—but is open to loosening federal cannabis rules. “It’s good politics,” a White House official tells Gabe Kaminsky and Tanner Nau.
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- Three Rules for a Good Diet
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- 7 months ago
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- Men and Women Are Different.
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- 7 months ago
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- Not Everyone Is the Same. That's Okay.
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- 7 months ago
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- Dr. Mike Israetel: The Uncomfortable Truth About Human Nature
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- 7 months ago
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- Dr. Mike Israetel is a bodybuilder and scientist who believes reading is as important as a gym session. Steven Pinker’s "The Blank Slate" changed his life. In this episode, Israetel joins Shilo Brooks to discuss how this explosive book on genetics, human nature, and the myth of infinite potential turned his own outlook (and coaching style) upside down, inspiring humility, killing illusions, and sharpening his science-first approach to diet and training. And he explains why athletes need to stop dreaming of becoming LeBron James and start maximizing the hand they’re dealt.
Old School is proudly brought to you by the Jack Miller Center. If you believe in the importance of civic education and want to help prepare the next generation to carry on our democracy, join us at JackMillerCenter.org.
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- Hamas Violently Reasserts Control Over Gaza Strip
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- 7 months ago
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- Amid the U.S.-brokered ceasefire, with Israeli troops withdrawn from parts of Gaza, Hamas has moved swiftly to reassert control over the Strip the only way it knows how: through brute force.
Through our partnership with Center for Peace Communications, we obtained exclusive testimony from Gaza residents who witnessed Hamas-perpetrated atrocities in recent days.
Video by Tanya Lukyanova
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- Hamas Carries Out Public Executions in Gaza City’
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- 7 months ago
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- On Monday—just hours after the last living hostage was returned home, and as the ink was still drying on a peace deal with Israel—Hamas carried out mass public executions in Gaza City’s main square, in full view of the public.
The terror group claimed the killings targeted “criminals and collaborators with Israel.”
Video by Tanya Lukyanova in partnership with Center for Peace Communications.
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- Dedicating Her Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump
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- 7 months ago
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- Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado explains why she dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump: “He deserves it… He’s the main supporter of this fight against this narcoterrorist cartel [running Venezuela]... I believe the Venezuelan people share my position heartfully.”
Watch the full interview with Bari Weiss: https://thefp.pub/493lztE
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- Parents of Deceased Hostage: Today Is a Day for Hope
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- 7 months ago
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- Jon Polin, father of deceased hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin: Today is a day for hope.
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- Why Is Greta Thunberg Silent on Peace Deal?
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- 7 months ago
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- Why are figures like Greta Thunberg—who have been demanding a ceasefire for years—silent now that a deal has been reached?
Haviv Rettig Gur: The idea that Israel and Israelis would only be satisfied by the complete genocide of Palestinians “has taken over the moral imagination of the Western left.”
“They need all the bombings to begin again because if the bombings don’t begin again, they were wrong on the fundamental article of the great morality play. And it’s weird watching these people be so traumatized by the possibility that this war is—maybe—actually over.”
Watch the full livestream: https://thefp.pub/3L9f4eP
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- The Israeli Hostages are Home
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- 7 months ago
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- After two years in captivity, the hostages are home.
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- The Hostages Come Home | Haviv Rettig Gur, Michael Oren & More
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- 7 months ago
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- On Thursday, Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan. Hamas has agreed to release all remaining hostages, both alive and dead. The release could begin as early as Sunday evening.
In exchange, Israel will release around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, including hundreds serving life sentences, and the Israel Defense Forces has completed its initial partial withdrawal in Gaza.
The deal marks a historic moment after over two years of war—for the families who have fought tirelessly to bring their loved ones home, for the hostages who have endured months of starvation and abuse, and for the Gazan civilians who have been living under two years of relentless war.
Still, critical questions remain: What happens next? Will Hamas agree to disarm and relinquish control of Gaza in phase two and allow Gaza to be rebuilt?
Early signs suggest otherwise. Over the weekend, Hamas reportedly began to...
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- María Corina Machado’s Fight to Free Venezuela | Bari Weiss
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- 7 months ago
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- Congratulations are not usually in order for someone who has been forced into hiding, someone whose children are scattered across continents for their safety, someone whose supporters are sitting in prison cells for the crime of believing in democracy.
But my guest today, María Corina Machado, just won the Nobel Peace Prize—joining the ranks of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Dalai Lama, to name a few.
On Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded their 2025 Peace Price to the Venezuelan opposition leader for her tireless work “promoting democratic rights,” describing her as “a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.” She is Venezuela’s first-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Machado’s story, as Jonathan Jakubowicz wrote in The Free Press, “is a political thriller come to life. A 58-year old industrial engineer and former member of parliament, she spent two decades as the most rel...
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- The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Winner is María Corina Machado
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- 7 months ago
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- Today, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, she remains in hiding—deep inside Venezuela.
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- TGIF! Gaza Ceasefire, Katie Porter Meltdown, & More | Nellie Bowles, Will Rahn
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- 7 months ago
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- Welcome to TGIF LIVE.
Your TGIF queen, Nellie Bowles, is speaking to The FP’s Will Rahn on all the latest from this week: Trump’s ceasefire deal in Gaza, Katie Porter’s meltdown on CBS, the Palisades fire arson, and so much more.
Get TGIF straight to your inbox every week. Subscribe to The Free Press today.
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- Love & Marriage: What Went Wrong? | Abigail Shrier, Suzy Weiss, and Larissa Phillips
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- 7 months ago
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- Young people are lonelier than ever. According to an APA poll, 30 percent of 18-34-year-olds feel lonely every day or several times a week. Less than half of American households are headed by married couples, down from nearly 80 percent in 1949. Birth rates are cratering: We’re below replacement rate. And despite all the therapy—and we’re more therapized than ever—we are sad. Over 60 million Americans experienced mental illness in 2024, according to Mental Health America.
To get into all of the above, Suzy Weiss is sitting down with two FP writers—in fact, two of the most beloved women in the FP universe—who've been thinking deeply about these topics for many years.
Larissa Phillips is a writer who left the city to live on a farm with her family in upstate New YorkNY. She also founded the Volunteer Literacy Project, which teaches adults to read. Larissa has written for us on marriage, deciding to hang her American flag, being a wife, and killing ...
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- The Old Man and The Sea
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- 7 months ago
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- Steven Rinella: How Nature Heals
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- 7 months ago
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- MeatEaters's Steven Rinella: The Meaning Crisis
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- 7 months ago
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- Meateater's Steven Rinella stops by Old School with Shilo Brooks.
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- Hamas Agrees to Release All of the Hostages
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- 7 months ago
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- Yesterday, Hamas agreed to release all of the hostages. This is a historic moment. Rafaela Siewert reports on what the peace deal entails and what comes next.
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- Steve Rinella: What the Wilderness Can Teach Young Men | Old School with Shilo Brooks
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- 7 months ago
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- Few people have turned a love of the wild into a cultural force quite like Steve Rinella, the outdoorsman and author behind the MeatEater empire. Jim Harrison’s "Wolf," published in 1971, changed Rinella’s life. In this episode, Rinella sits down with Shilo Brooks to discuss this stream-of-consciousness novel replete with chaos and male angst. He reflects on growing up in rural Michigan and seeing himself in Harrison’s protagonist—a bitter, damaged, self-destructive young man on a quest for meaning in the wilderness. Rinella lays bare the novel’s darker undercurrents and why it has appeal for young men lacking purpose.
Old School is proudly brought to you by the Jack Miller Center. If you believe in the importance of civic education and want to help prepare the next generation to carry on our democracy, join us at JackMillerCenter.org.
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- Lessons in Grit from The Old Man and the Sea | Admiral James Stavridis
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- 7 months ago
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- Admiral James Stavridis once commanded fleets as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. Now he commands a collection of 5,000 rare books. Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea changed Stavridis’ life. In this episode, the admiral sits down with Shilo Brooks to discuss the themes of hardship, pride, and resilience that appear in Santiago’s epic struggle at sea. Stavridis, who stuck out in the military for his love of books, and stuck out as a law school dean for his love of the military, explains how reading books has made him a more effective leader.
Old School is proudly brought to you by the Jack Miller Center. If you believe in the importance of civic education and want to help prepare the next generation to carry on our democracy, join us at JackMillerCenter.org.
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- Old School With Shilo Brooks. Coming Tomorrow.
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- 7 months ago
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- Fewer of us than ever are reading books for pleasure. Shilo Brooks is on a mission to change that. Old School is a new podcast from The Free Press about great books and how reading them can make us stronger, better men. The show features intimate conversations with fascinating men—from fitness gurus to philosophers—about the books that shaped their lives. New episodes out every Thursday.
Read with us: https://bookshop.org/lists/old-school-with-shilo-brooks
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- The Life of a Happy Girl
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- 7 months ago
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- “Very much evident between the lines of this latest album, is that what is good for a person—a fulfilling, loving, stable relationship—is thin gruel for a poet.”
Kat Rosenfield reviews Taylor Swift’s new album.
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- Old School with Shilo Brooks Premieres 10/9.
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- If you can’t sit down and finish a book, you’re weak.
Old School premieres tomorrow, 10/9.
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- Can Anyone Stop Mamdani Before November?
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- 7 months ago
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- We’re officially less than a month out from Election Day in New York City, and we’ve got three men left in the race for mayor: Republican Curtis Sliwa, who unsuccessfully ran four years ago; former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who lost the Democratic primary and is now running as an independent; and Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive winner, a young Democratic Socialist who upset the establishment to clinch the Dem nomination.
Here today to discuss the race, the latest in polling, and what Mayor Mamdani might mean for New York City and the country, Olly Wiseman speaks with Free Press reporter Olivia Reingold and 2Way Editor-in-Chief Mark Halperin.
