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He Fought for Freedom. Then He Chose Prison.
When the Chinese Communist Party came for Jimmy Lai, the billionaire stayed put. ‘I called my people to fight. I can’t let them down.’
Mark L. Clifford
Peggy Noonan on How to Save America
‘Any jackass can knock down a barn, but it takes a man to build one.’ The columnist sounds off on populism, Trump, and the fragility of American…
Bari Weiss
Why Is the National Book Award Going to a Publisher of Antisemitic Books?
W. Paul Coates, the father of Ta-Nehisi Coates, is getting a lifetime achievement award tonight from people who don’t want to talk about what he’s…
Mark Oppenheimer
Peggy Noonan: On Loving America
‘We are a people that has experienced something epic together. We were given this brilliant, beautiful thing, this new arrangement,’ says the star of…
Peggy Noonan
Sally Rooney’s Literary Mob
A group of celebrated writers is calling for a boycott of the Israeli publishing industry. Count me out.
Lionel Shriver
Ad for Israel Book Canceled Because ‘Customers Might Complain’
Magazine rejects advertisement for Bernard-Henri Lévy’s work because it will give booksellers ‘trouble they haven’t asked for and don’t wish to have.’
Frannie Block
Life’s Short. So Stop Trying to Perfect It.
‘The world opens up once you realize you’re never going to sort your life out,’ writes recovering productivity geek Oliver Burkeman.
Oliver Burkeman
The Spy Who Lied to Us
There is only one person who still believes the infamous Steele dossier was credible: Christopher Steele.
Eli Lake
The Subversive Genius of Melania Trump
She is a breed of political spouse nobody has ever seen before: one who almost transparently doesn’t care if her husband wins or not.
Kat Rosenfield
Bill Maher: American Kids Are Way Too Confident
And it’s all Paris Hilton’s fault.
Bill Maher
Introducing the Official Free Press Book Club
Every month we’re recommending two titles that speak to each other—something old and something new. First up: Nellie Bowles and P.J. O’Rourke.
Bari Weiss
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Nellie Bowles
Ozempic: Magic Pill or Devil’s Bargain?
Johann Hari is half the man he was due to the weight-loss drug. He reveals how it changed the world—and how he once got fat-shamed by the Dalai Lama.
Bari Weiss
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