The Free Press
The Free Press Is Hiring!
ForumNewslettersSign InSubscribe
Latest
Tear Down This Museum! Plus. . .
Suzy Weiss on Ariana Grande. How Ted Lasso became hollow. The Nobel laureate who’d buy your kidney. The man who quit working in finance and bought a…
The Free Press
The Joyless Return of ‘Ted Lasso’
The show’s newest season replaces real character complexity, depth, and heart with big, sweeping political statements that stir progressive pundits and…
Liel Leibovitz
What’s Happening to Ariana Grande?
Plus: coaches for disappointing men, memoirs by women going through it, and when to say ‘no’ to therapy. And more.
Suzy Weiss
The Book That Saved Me from Wasting My Life
I was 24, miserable at my desk job, and convinced I had to stick it out. Then I read a book that made me realize I could choose differently.
Jack Raines
Caitlin Flanagan: How to Wreck a Museum
Art history now teaches that ‘putting things in categories’ is bad—which is how galleries end up feeling like a garage sale.
Caitlin Flanagan
The Nobel Laureate Who’d Buy Your Kidney
What is bad about prostitution? Why is it wrong to eat horses? Al Roth’s latest book asks the most provocative moral questions. He gave The Free Press…
Peter Coy
A Vicious Double Standard in Publishing. Plus. . .
Josh Gottheimer on the takeover of the Democratic Party. Can you cook like a Kennedy? Fauci in jeopardy. Ted Cruz on ‘School of War.’ And more.
The Free Press
Josh Gottheimer: The Democratic Party Is Being Hijacked by Socialists
I serve in Congress. Abdul El-Sayed’s victory this week is only the latest evidence that my party is being overrun by antisemitism. We know where this…
Rep. Josh Gottheimer
When Publishers Pick Sides
Simon & Schuster can publish whomever it likes, including Susan Abulhawa. But if it stands by her antisemitic views, I will sadly look for another…
Gerald Posner
TGIF: With the Exception of Pearl Harbor
The Vances still have chickens, Apple and OpenAI have a fight, RFK Jr. debuts his new cooking show, Oxford Union students threaten to ‘cook’ their…
Nellie Bowles
Ted Cruz’s Plan to Bring Down Iran’s Regime—and Tucker Carlson
From Iran’s future to the civil war inside the American right, a conversation on regime change, the GOP’s identity crisis, and antisemitism as one of…
Aaron MacLean
31M
Jared Leto, Ariana Grande, and Naked Steakhouses
Plus: A ketamine-healed exec sues Netflix.
Suzy Weiss
44M
For Free People.
LatestSearchAboutCareersForumShopPodcastsVideoEvents
©2026 The Free Press. All Rights Reserved.Powered by Substack.
Privacy∙Terms∙Collection notice