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What’s broken. How to fix it. And what’s worth saving. Plus: inside the Sam Altman drama at OpenAI.
By Oliver Wiseman
11.20.23
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A lot of things are broken. A lot of very important things. Things like our media, our universities, and our politics. 

This will not come as a surprise to most Free Press readers. From medicine to academia, we’ve chronicled the way in which some of America’s most important institutions have been captured by ideology and reneged on their essential duties…

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Oliver Wiseman
Oliver Wiseman is the deputy editor of The Free Press. Previously, he was the executive editor of The Spectator World and a regular contributor to UnHerd, City Journal, the Evening Standard, and a range of other publications.
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