As others have said, I am grateful for The Free Press and also for a spate of other new publications where I live in Canada that uphold sensible comment (looking at you, The Line and at Paul Wells). I thankful for my American besties.....
Mr Haidt's comments about his grandparents really struck a chord with me and, for the first time I can recall, made me realize how lucky I am that they too emigrated from Eastern European in the very early 1900's. This is something that will now stay and resonate with me. P.S. my maternal grandmother was born in Ukraine, which seems topical.
Small picture (personal) gratitude: my husband and our marriage
Big picture (public) gratitude: to find a group of people in TFP Comments brought together by one forthright young woman's moment of "I'm-mad-as-hell-and-am-not-going-to-take-it-anymore" resignation from the NYT and their yoke of fact oppression. Ms. Weiss, you and your wife have given me hope and confidence that I, in my centrist views, am not alone nor "a voice in the wilderness." Thank you!
So about 60 years ago my mom decided to leave Cuba with 4-year-old me and one bag. My father was a political prisoner and had warned her she was on a list to be arrested. So where did we end up? How about Miami Beach. Wait, Miami Beach? Here I sit looking at the beautiful bay before going bicycling on the South Beach boardwalk. How lucky could I be? Now with three kids, two grandkids, all living nearby (you think anyone down here is going to leave?!) Thankful, thankful, thankful.
Oh, but I do have to say the first thing that came to mind, really, was The Free Press. You make my day every day.
I’m thankful that after reading The Free Press for a year, I’ve upgraded to paid and I get to read all of your beautiful messages. I can’t count how many articles I’ve forwarded to family and friends and how profoundly affected I am by them. I’m thankful every morning to read the articles while I do fourth grade hall duty at the elementary school where I work.
I am thankful for mornings because they bring promise. After I got sick in 2009 and lived through an icky medical intervention, I realized seeing the sun come up is everything. Trails, travel, history, life experiences, and perspective are all we get. We are born, we do some stuff, then we die. Do not waste the middle part.
I’m grateful for the Free Press. The Free Press gives me hope and optimism for the future. That maybe everyone isn’t crazy. I love the line that Bari has used many times, something like that we can listen to other people’s ideas without being contaminated by them and that it’s ok to be offended sometimes. I’m thankful that there are brave people in this world like Bari Weiss who had the forethought to see what we needed and a great risk, did it anyway. Thank you Bari and your entire Free Press team. I’m beyond thankful for you.
I am thankful for my wife and children and the rest of my family for the unconditional love they give me. I am thankful for having been born in the greatest country in human history and at the most prosperous time for mankind. I am thankful that I understand how easy we have it compared to any other time in human history. I am thankful that like the vast majority of Americans I have easy access to clean water, fresh food, high quality health care, instant heat and air conditioning, transportation, entertainment all things that even the greatest monarchs in the world didn't have. I am thankful I live better than Caesar, Genghis Khan, Louis XIV, Elizabeth I, or even John D. Rockefeller.
I'd be grateful for less Palestine/Israel insanity in these pages. Let's start a GoFundMe for one massive aliyah/study abroad for everyone who still gives a shit at this point, and y'all can go over to the Holy Land to hash things out where they actually still matter.
I have 10 paid Substack subscriptions, and if I could only keep one of them it would be The Free Press. Thanks for being part of a tiny chain of islands in a sea of insanity.
If you think about it, there’s almost an infinite number of things to be grateful and thankful for. Just look around where you are right now. For me: a warm home, humans that I love that share it with me, our pup, a soft bed, full belly, this crazy amazing tech in my palm, a cousin who cares and makes you text when I mane it home, having woods to hike that are a stones throw from home, the good book on my nightstand, but most of all, every time I’m asked, my number one go to is that I’m thankful for my health and my family’s health. Our lives are so fragile...diseases, cancers, accidents, nonsensical violence...
As others have said, I am grateful for The Free Press and also for a spate of other new publications where I live in Canada that uphold sensible comment (looking at you, The Line and at Paul Wells). I thankful for my American besties.....
I am so grateful for the Free Press! It’s the only place I trust to get my news.
I’m also grateful I get to spend Thanksgiving with my family because I won’t always be able to.
Finally, I’m grateful for the health God has given me to play Ultimate Frisbee
Mr Haidt's comments about his grandparents really struck a chord with me and, for the first time I can recall, made me realize how lucky I am that they too emigrated from Eastern European in the very early 1900's. This is something that will now stay and resonate with me. P.S. my maternal grandmother was born in Ukraine, which seems topical.
I'm grateful for Bari's resignation letter to the NY Times. I go back to it when I need a shot of subversive honesty.
Small picture (personal) gratitude: my husband and our marriage
Big picture (public) gratitude: to find a group of people in TFP Comments brought together by one forthright young woman's moment of "I'm-mad-as-hell-and-am-not-going-to-take-it-anymore" resignation from the NYT and their yoke of fact oppression. Ms. Weiss, you and your wife have given me hope and confidence that I, in my centrist views, am not alone nor "a voice in the wilderness." Thank you!
So about 60 years ago my mom decided to leave Cuba with 4-year-old me and one bag. My father was a political prisoner and had warned her she was on a list to be arrested. So where did we end up? How about Miami Beach. Wait, Miami Beach? Here I sit looking at the beautiful bay before going bicycling on the South Beach boardwalk. How lucky could I be? Now with three kids, two grandkids, all living nearby (you think anyone down here is going to leave?!) Thankful, thankful, thankful.
Oh, but I do have to say the first thing that came to mind, really, was The Free Press. You make my day every day.
I’m thankful that after reading The Free Press for a year, I’ve upgraded to paid and I get to read all of your beautiful messages. I can’t count how many articles I’ve forwarded to family and friends and how profoundly affected I am by them. I’m thankful every morning to read the articles while I do fourth grade hall duty at the elementary school where I work.
I am thankful for mornings because they bring promise. After I got sick in 2009 and lived through an icky medical intervention, I realized seeing the sun come up is everything. Trails, travel, history, life experiences, and perspective are all we get. We are born, we do some stuff, then we die. Do not waste the middle part.
I’m grateful for the Free Press. The Free Press gives me hope and optimism for the future. That maybe everyone isn’t crazy. I love the line that Bari has used many times, something like that we can listen to other people’s ideas without being contaminated by them and that it’s ok to be offended sometimes. I’m thankful that there are brave people in this world like Bari Weiss who had the forethought to see what we needed and a great risk, did it anyway. Thank you Bari and your entire Free Press team. I’m beyond thankful for you.
I am thankful for my wife and children and the rest of my family for the unconditional love they give me. I am thankful for having been born in the greatest country in human history and at the most prosperous time for mankind. I am thankful that I understand how easy we have it compared to any other time in human history. I am thankful that like the vast majority of Americans I have easy access to clean water, fresh food, high quality health care, instant heat and air conditioning, transportation, entertainment all things that even the greatest monarchs in the world didn't have. I am thankful I live better than Caesar, Genghis Khan, Louis XIV, Elizabeth I, or even John D. Rockefeller.
I am thankful to be living in a country where this holiday of thanks is celebrated.
I am thankful to be living in a country that celebrates this holiday of thanks!
Kathleen McCourt Thomas
I'd be grateful for less Palestine/Israel insanity in these pages. Let's start a GoFundMe for one massive aliyah/study abroad for everyone who still gives a shit at this point, and y'all can go over to the Holy Land to hash things out where they actually still matter.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali brought me to tears. God bless her.
I have 10 paid Substack subscriptions, and if I could only keep one of them it would be The Free Press. Thanks for being part of a tiny chain of islands in a sea of insanity.
If you think about it, there’s almost an infinite number of things to be grateful and thankful for. Just look around where you are right now. For me: a warm home, humans that I love that share it with me, our pup, a soft bed, full belly, this crazy amazing tech in my palm, a cousin who cares and makes you text when I mane it home, having woods to hike that are a stones throw from home, the good book on my nightstand, but most of all, every time I’m asked, my number one go to is that I’m thankful for my health and my family’s health. Our lives are so fragile...diseases, cancers, accidents, nonsensical violence...