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Sydney Sweeney, Inc.
Her viral response to the famous jeans ad captures the new superstar economy—where charisma trumps ideology and markets reward defiance.
Tyler Cowen
The Meltdown at Heritage—and the Fight for MAGA’s Future
Staffers are up in arms after Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts defended Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes. The clash is a sign of…
Eli Lake
The Chess World Just Lost Its Best Ambassador
Given Daniel Naroditsky’s sense of fair play, his decency, and his intellectual honesty, perhaps the chess world did not deserve him. But we got him…
Coleman Hughes
Is the Internet Too Fragile?
After the AWS outage, Mehdi Daoudi, the CEO of internet performance monitoring company Catchpoint, says that we need to start taking the risks of our…
Tanner Nau
The Shutdown Is a Meme War
And the Democrats are losing.
River Page
Tyler Robinson and the End of Place
The 22-year-old accused of murdering Charlie Kirk came from a stable family in a thriving town. But that wasn’t enough.
Peter Savodnik
A Muscle Man’s Message to America’s Lost Boys
‘I used to be a very, very scared guy,’ the novelist Jordan Castro tells The Free Press. Then he met a woman, started lifting, and found God.
Josh Code
Live in New York: Reclaiming Childhood in an Online World with Jonathan Haidt
Join the author of ‘The Anxious Generation’ and Bari Weiss for a conversation about technology, parenting, and how to take back childhood.
The Free Press
Should Brigitte Macron Have to Say, ‘I’m Not a Man’?
The online travails of France’s First Lady reveal an internet culture in which baseless smears are commonplace.
Kat Rosenfield
Suzy Weiss: Is It Time to Go Internet Sober?
I went to an Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous meeting. Here’s what I learned.
Suzy Weiss
Understanding Tyler Robinson’s Motives
Andy Ngo breaks down what the messages on the alleged shooter’s bullet casings mean, why they matter, and how obscure internet culture played a role in…
Josh Code
His Wife Called Charlie Kirk a ‘Nazi.’ He Was Fired.
The right is repeating the mistakes of peak woke. It won’t end well.
River Page
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