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Could You Live Without a Computer? I Can.
I no longer feel distracted, manipulated, or judged. I’m not living in the digital realm anymore. These days, my real life is all I have.
August Lamm
The Real Reason Actresses Are Rejecting Intimacy Coordinators
Do sex scenes need to be tightly choreographed? A series of female A-listers think not, but critics say they’re betraying #MeToo.
Kat Rosenfield
What Makes Europe Better than America?
We’re wealthier. They’re healthier. But who’s the winner?
Chris Arnade
Letters to the Editor: Anthony Bourdain Is Good for Culture
A retired senior civil servant offers advice for DOGE, and more.
The Free Press
Sly Stone: Funk Revolutionary
Yes, drugs were his downfall. But before he succumbed, he wrote songs that would influence generations of musicians, from Miles Davis to Janet Jackson.
Eli Lake
Our Knowledge System Has Collapsed. Can We Survive Without It?
Even as tech gets degraded, people will still need something solid and reliable that will contribute to human flourishing. In fact, they will need that…
Ted Gioia
Suzy Weiss: My Afternoon with the Vibe Coders
Plus: Tech feuds, Jesse Armstrong’s new movie, Taylor Swift’s grudges. And more!
Suzy Weiss
When Owning a House Is a Fantasy
‘In the pantheon of bad choices, the attempt to build my own house towers above all others. I have lost money in LA real estate, which practically…
Meghan Daum
What Porn Took from Us
My generation grew up with unlimited access to hardcore porn. No wonder intimacy is a struggle.
Freya India
How Catholicism Got Cool
Young Americans and people around the world are flocking to the Catholic Church. The Free Press spoke to them to find out why.
Madeleine Kearns
Will You Be a Dancing Monkey in the Age of AI?
The big AI question is not whether it will make us feel stupid. It is whether it will make us more competent in managing the lunatic carnival that is…
Martin Gurri
How the Democrats Lost Men Like Me
Like Margaret Mead observing the grass-skirted natives in Samoa, notebook in hand, Dems plan to study men like me. They can just read this.
River Page
Smells Like Green Spirit
New York City’s new eco-policy mixes food scraps with sewage and burns the result. It’s not what residents had in mind.
Josh Code
How Much Plastic Surgery Does a Woman Really Need?
Here’s the thing about being an older woman: You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t. So you might as well please yourself.
Mimi Swartz
Mimi Swartz on ‘That Face’ and the Women Who Choose It
The Texas writer reveals the story behind her reluctant romance with Botox—and why her mother’s cosmetic surgeries were a family secret.
Suzy Weiss
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Suzy Weiss: Can Men Make Friends?
Plus: We made the straight men of The Free Press review ‘Sex and the City.’
Suzy Weiss
Lionel Shriver: I Lost Control of My Body
What happens when a freakish bout of medical misfortune stops a writer from writing?
Lionel Shriver
The Straight-Male Case for ‘Sex and the City’
I couldn’t help but wonder: Is Carrie Bradshaw the answer to the male-loneliness epidemic?
Will Rahn
A BLM Star Journalist Felled by #MeToo
During BLM, Wesley Lowery demanded ‘moral clarity’ rather than objectivity. Now, the activist-journalist has fallen foul of activism-journalism.
Kat Rosenfield
How to Examine Your Marriage and Your Life
Agnes Callard talks to Bari about marriage, divorce, kids, and living with her current and ex-husband.
Bari Weiss
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Ambition Will Only Get You So Far
Sitting at my mother’s bedside, getting a glimpse of the abyss, I had my revelation: Professional zeal is a finite resource.
Emily Yoffe
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
Goodbye Oakland A’s. Hello Oakland Ballers.
Oakland has lost three major sports teams in the wake of rising crime and homelessness. But a new independent league baseball club aims to give the town…
Leighton Woodhouse
The Leftists Celebrating Joe Biden’s Cancer
‘He ought to seek out treatment in a cancer ward in Gaza,’ one person told The Free Press.
Olivia Reingold
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