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How Intellectuals Found God
Almost 150 years after Nietzsche said ‘God is dead,’ some of our most important thinkers are getting religion. Peter Savodnik meets the new theists.
Peter Savodnik
The Canadians Who Say: ‘Trump, Take My Country—Please!’
More than ten percent of Canadians want the new president to make good on his troll. Rupa meets the people sick of life under Trudeau.
Rupa Subramanya
The Miracle of the Light
Winston Churchill wasn’t Jewish. But he understood, from the burning bush to the Maccabees to the modern state of Israel, the meaning of the flame.
Meir Soloveichik
Why These Christmas Songs Could Only Be Written in America
It was Jewish Americans like Irving Berlin who drew on Yiddish and the rhythms and chords of traditional cantorial music to create our most beloved…
Eli Lake
Tom Holland on How Christianity Remade the World
This Christmas, one of our greatest living historians explains how one ‘radical message’ came to define the entirety of the Western world.
Bari Weiss
I Took Religion Out of Christmas. I Regret It.
I decided my family could do without Christianity. I didn’t realize how much structure and beauty it could give us.
Larissa Phillips
My Conversations With Luigi Mangione
He told me that once we surrendered our agency, we’d surrender everything else.
Gurwinder Bhogal
What We Learned This Year
Mayor Eric Adams, David Sedaris, Bill Maher, Amy Chua, and more on what they learned in 2024.
The Editors
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI’s Future
Also: AI bias and censorship; why he donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund; the race with China; and much more.
Bari Weiss
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A Mom Asked for Public School Board Records. They Charged Her $33 Million.
Parents are suing schools to find out what their kids are learning. Schools are suing parents to shut them up. How did we get here?
Josh Code
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Frannie Block
The Free Press, Tailored to You
A new site built for all 975,000 subscribers.
Bari Weiss
The Essential Free Press Gift Guide
Niall Ferguson, Bari Weiss, Emily Oster, and other Free Pressers share the products that have changed their lives.
Suzy Weiss
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