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Tyler Cowen: Welcome to Our Weird and Wild Century. It’s a Lot Like the 17th.
England in the 1600s was full of radical progress—and also extreme disorder. Those qualities typify our own strange, unpredictable era.
Tyler Cowen
The Legal Trick Being Used to Trip Up Trump
Judges are issuing orders that block government policies from taking effect anywhere in the country. Jed Rubenfeld explains what to do about them.
Jed Rubenfeld
WATCH LIVE: Bari Weiss and Lloyd Blankfein on Tariffs, Trade, and Trump’s Economy
Join the former head of Goldman Sachs today at 11 a.m. ET. Bring your questions.
Bari Weiss
Tyler Cowen: A Contagion of Uncertainty
Even if the White House ultimately lands on a better policy, this volatility may plunge us into a recession.
Tyler Cowen
Meet Usha Vance: MAGA’s Enigmatic Second Lady
The most impressive person in the job since Abigail Adams is J.D.’s best asset if he ever runs for president. She sits down with The Free Press for her…
Peter Savodnik
Hallowed Be Thy App
Since it was launched in 2018, the Christian prayer app Hallow has been downloaded 23 million times. Is this the beginning of a religious revival?
Madeleine Kearns
The Godfather of the Campus Intifada
Today’s protesters—at Columbia and beyond—owe their worldview to professor Edward Said, whose obsession with the West blinded him to the reality of the…
Eli Lake
Join Bari Weiss and Tyler Cowen in 30 Minutes to Talk Tariffs
A brilliant strategic move? A catastrophic own goal? We’ll discuss. Bring all your questions.
Bari Weiss
Douglas Murray: If War Came, Would You Fight?
In the first year of Israel’s battle against a death cult, I traveled the country—and saw what it means to choose life.
Douglas Murray
EXCLUSIVE: The Family of a Murdered Gaza Protester Speaks Out
After they tortured him and mutilated his body, they dropped him off a rooftop with a note pinned to his clothes: ‘This is the price for all who…
Tanya Lukyanova
What Does the New Right Want?
You can’t understand policymaking without ideology. And you can’t understand the Trump White House without understanding this burgeoning movement.
Noah Smith
How One Town Turned a Child’s ‘Cry For Help’ Into a Hate Crime
After three nooses were found in a bush in Evanston, Illinois, two children were vilified as racist. A family was driven out of their home. Now, over…
Frannie Block
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