The Free Press
NewslettersSign InSubscribe
Books
Things Worth Remembering: When to Stop Being Nice
To understand the power of kindness in an age of media mobs and toxic empathy, listen to Patrick Swayze’s monologue in ‘Road House.’
Spencer Klavan
Lionel Shriver: I Lost Control of My Body
What happens when a freakish bout of medical misfortune stops a writer from writing?
Lionel Shriver
Suzy Weiss: It’s Over for Anthony Bourdain’s Fanboys
This week, our culture czar stumbled into a dinosaur bodega and read ‘Heartburn’ for the first time. Also, she has another show about middle-aged…
Suzy Weiss
Things Worth Remembering: ‘James’ Is a Masterpiece
This year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Percival Everett’s novel, which deserves every award in literature.
Tiya Miles
A Fifth of American Adults Can’t Read. Here’s How to Teach Them.
48 million adults in the U.S. read at or below the third-grade level. Some educators think it’s not possible to teach them. They’re wrong.
Larissa Phillips
Joseph Massey, the Unofficial Poet Laureate of Trump’s America
Peter Savodnik talks to the self-published poet who is made for this moment—and whose latest collection is a surprise bestseller.
Peter Savodnik
Suzy Weiss: Is Justin Bieber Okay?
Plus: You can’t practice life, nepo babies of the world take their thrones—and more!
Suzy Weiss
This Is the Lecture That the Naval Academy Didn’t Want Me to Give
We have gotten to a place where even a basic defense of intellectual freedom is now considered ‘too political’ for a government institution.
Ryan Holiday
Can America Survive Without Christianity?
Author Jonathan Rauch joins Bari on Honestly to discuss how the success of liberal democracy depends on a healthy Christianity to support it—and if…
Bari Weiss
1HR 3M
Things Worth Remembering: Kids These Days Need The Black Stallion
Children’s books should remind kids that there are rewards for persevering past pain and fear. This is the actual heart of adventure stories, and the…
Larissa Phillips
Love on the Spectrum, Bitter Pop Queens, Studio Ghibli—and More!
Pop stars hate you. Reality television is a spectrum. Forever 21 is dead. Welcome back to Suzy Weiss’s weekly tour of American culture.
Suzy Weiss
‘Snow White,’ Woke Preppers, David Blaine—and More!
Welcome to a new Free Press culture column from Suzy Weiss.
Suzy Weiss
The Luxurious Death Rattle of the Great American Magazine
In the glory days of magazines, journalists flew business class and contributors were sent flowers just for meeting a deadline. It was absurd.
Joe Nocera
He Helped Michael Jordan Win—and He Can Help You, Too
To be truly great, writes George Raveling, don’t focus on the glory. Focus on the drudgery.
George Raveling
Things Worth Remembering: Death Is a Friend
My ancestors, the ancient Celts, understood that mortality is not an enemy, but something to be embraced.
Sean Fischer
WATCH: Alex Karp’s Fight for the West
A conversation with the Palantir CEO at the University of Austin.
Bari Weiss
1HR 25M
Alex Karp: We Need a New Manhattan Project
Our technology industry is capable of building a weapon that could ensure peace. But why court controversy when you can build another app?
Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska
What Sexual Liberation Really Looks Like
Hookup culture benefits men at the expense of women.
Louise Perry
WATCH: How to Find Love in 2025
Louise Perry speaks on the failures of feminism, Gen Z hookup culture, and America’s return to Christian morals.
The Editors
1HR 15M
He Fought for Freedom. Then He Chose Prison.
When the Chinese Communist Party came for Jimmy Lai, the billionaire stayed put. ‘I called my people to fight. I can’t let them down.’
Mark L. Clifford
Peggy Noonan on How to Save America
‘Any jackass can knock down a barn, but it takes a man to build one.’ The columnist sounds off on populism, Trump, and the fragility of American…
Bari Weiss
Why Is the National Book Award Going to a Publisher of Antisemitic Books?
W. Paul Coates, the father of Ta-Nehisi Coates, is getting a lifetime achievement award tonight from people who don’t want to talk about what he’s…
Mark Oppenheimer
Peggy Noonan: On Loving America
‘We are a people that has experienced something epic together. We were given this brilliant, beautiful thing, this new arrangement,’ says the star of…
Peggy Noonan
Sally Rooney’s Literary Mob
A group of celebrated writers is calling for a boycott of the Israeli publishing industry. Count me out.
Lionel Shriver
For Free People.
LatestSearchAboutCareersShopPodcastsVideoEvents
©2025 The Free Press. All Rights Reserved.Powered by Substack.
Privacy∙Terms∙Collection notice