From Aleppo to Tehran: A Middle East on Edge
Tue, 03 Dec 2024
This week marked a dramatic escalation in Syria’s 13-year civil war. Rebel factions launched their...
Love, Death and Gratitude: Seven Stories
Sat, 30 Nov 2024
As you’re recovering from indulging in stuffing and pecan pie, we wanted to bring you a special bo...
The Making of America’s Most Famous Cheerleaders
Thu, 28 Nov 2024
Happy Thanksgiving, Honestly listeners! If you’re anything like the rest of America, you’ll be s...
How to Save America with Peggy Noonan
Tue, 26 Nov 2024
Peggy Noonan does what we try to do every day at The Free Press: tell the truth, make sense of thing...
Where Do Democrats Go from Here?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024
Throughout the election, we heard one warning, repeated ad infinitum: A Donald Trump victory would p...
Where Will Trump 2.0 Take the GOP?
Tue, 19 Nov 2024
Trump’s gains among working-class voters of all races—according to exit polls, he won the majori...
Peter Thiel on Trump, Elon, and the Triumph of the Counter-Elites
Thu, 14 Nov 2024
On Tuesday night, president-elect Donald Trump announced that the richest man in the world, Elon Mus...
Resistance or Opposition: Which Route Should the Democrats Take?
Tue, 12 Nov 2024
Even your most optimistic Mar-a-Lago member didn’t see Donald Trump winning the popular vote and t...
Why Trump Won
Thu, 07 Nov 2024
Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States. . . again. It was a historic politi...
A Message from Bari on Election Day
Tue, 05 Nov 2024
Our newsroom reflects our readers: We aren’t voting in unison. Today, Bari Weiss explains how The ...
Trump and the Art of the Bullshitter
Sat, 02 Nov 2024
Bullshit is an American tradition. Think the theatrics of P.T. Barnum, miracle products sold ad naus...
Trick or Treat: It’s Our Halloween Special!
Thu, 31 Oct 2024
Need a break from political programming? Well, today we have a special treat: It’s The Free Press’...
Trump or Kamala? Ben Shapiro and Sam Harris Debate.
Tue, 29 Oct 2024
There are no perfect candidates. But what do you do when both candidates are not just imperfect but ...
Should the U.S. Still Police the World? A Live Debate.
Sun, 27 Oct 2024
We don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that we’re standing at the precipice of what could ...
The Parasitic Ideas Threatening the West
Thu, 24 Oct 2024
Gad Saad was born in Beirut in 1964 into one of the last Jewish families to remain in Lebanon. But t...
How Hezbollah Is Destroying Lebanon
Tue, 22 Oct 2024
In the last year, we’ve witnessed a disturbing trend among some on the fringe left, who cheer thos...
Brianna Wu Says She Didn't Change. The Progressive Movement Did.
Thu, 17 Oct 2024
It would have been unthinkable for Brianna Wu to have appeared on Honestly a decade ago (if the show...
The Democrats Voting for Trump
Tue, 15 Oct 2024
A few weeks ago, we had Sarah Longwell and David French, two prominent conservatives, on Honestly to...
The Hundred Year Holy War
Sat, 12 Oct 2024
We all know the horrid tale of what happened in Israel on October 7, 2023. Waves of gunmen attacked ...
“There Is No Peace Here”: Reporting on War with Trey Yingst
Thu, 10 Oct 2024
We’ve released a few episodes on Honestly for the anniversary of October 7. Today, we’re bringin...
A Year of Revelations
Mon, 07 Oct 2024
We expected Hamas to kill Jews. We didn’t expect Americans to celebrate it. Today on Honestly, ...
Emily Oster Talks About Our New Parenting Podcast
Sat, 05 Oct 2024
When Emily Oster was a kid in the 1980s in New Haven, Connecticut, she grew up on a block with a lot...
Douglas Murray: A Time of War
Wed, 02 Oct 2024
When we planned the conversation you’re going to hear today—a live conversation with Douglas Mur...
Megyn Kelly on Life After Mainstream Media
Tue, 01 Oct 2024
Megyn Kelly cut her teeth in the mainstream media and became one of the most influential voices in t...
How Republics Unravel: From Rome to . . . America?
Thu, 26 Sep 2024
Last week, a man armed with an assault rifle was apprehended on a southern Florida golf course. He w...
Why Senator Rand Paul Hasn’t Endorsed Trump
Tue, 24 Sep 2024
If you’re a listener of this show, then you’ve probably heard of the horseshoe theory. It’s ba...
Hezbollah's Pagers and Walkie-Talkies Explode. Now What?
Thu, 19 Sep 2024
On Tuesday, hundreds of encrypted pagers in Lebanon and Syria began exploding at the same time. Leba...
Is The American Dream Alive and Well? A Live Debate.
Tue, 17 Sep 2024
The American dream is the most important of our national myths. It’s the idea that, with hard work...
Cat-Eating, Rally Sizes, and Post-Birth Abortion: An American Debate
Wed, 11 Sep 2024
Last night was the much-anticipated presidential debate between incumbent vice president Kamala Harr...
World War II and the Rise of Anti-History
Tue, 10 Sep 2024
Tucker Carlson is perhaps the country’s most influential conservative commentator; his eponymous p...
When Students Become Terrorists
Sat, 07 Sep 2024
Last year, at colleges across America, students etched themselves into history, or infamy, with the ...
The Republicans Voting for Kamala
Thu, 05 Sep 2024
A few weeks ago, at the much-anticipated Democratic National Convention, we witnessed the coronation...
Matt Taibbi on the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex
Tue, 03 Sep 2024
In the past few weeks, there’s been an increasing number of threats to freedom of speech around th...
How Whole Foods Revolutionized American Eating Habits
Thu, 29 Aug 2024
John Mackey, co-founder of Whole Foods Market, is one of the most consequential American entrepreneu...
Debate: How Do We Fix American Education?
Tue, 27 Aug 2024
It’s that time of year again–reliably bumming out students and parents alike… it ’s back to ...
From the DNC: Meet the Kamala Democrats
Fri, 23 Aug 2024
In the 1972 presidential election, Democratic candidate George McGovern was soundly defeated by Rich...
Nate Silver on the Art of Risking Everything
Tue, 20 Aug 2024
Most humans are cautious by nature. We naturally like to do what’s comfortable and safe. But comfo...
The Palestinian ‘Traitor’ Risking Everything to Speak Out
Thu, 15 Aug 2024
A few months ago, we learned about a young man whose name we’re withholding, which is something we...
Dear Caitlin Flanagan and Suzy Weiss: A Free Press Advice Special!
Tue, 13 Aug 2024
Never before have people felt more comfortable weighing in on other people’s lives. What diet to ...
A Tim Walz Face-Off: Radical? Moderate? We Debate!
Thu, 08 Aug 2024
A few weeks ago, very few people outside of the Beltway and niche media circles had ever heard the n...
Kamala Harris and the Election of Laughter and Forgetting
Tue, 06 Aug 2024
Last month, we ran an episode here by one of our amazing reporters, Eli Lake, that took us back to t...
What to Do When the Market Drops? Call Larry Summers.
Tue, 06 Aug 2024
On Monday, the markets had one of its worst trading days since the 2008 financial crisis. Stocks tum...
Can You Drink Your Way to Sobriety?
Thu, 01 Aug 2024
Today, we have a special story from two friends and former Free Pressers, Andy Mills and Matt Boll. ...
A Middle East on the Brink
Tue, 30 Jul 2024
On Saturday afternoon, a Hezbollah rocket fired from southern Lebanon struck a soccer field in the v...
Is Kamala Harris 'Brat'? Also: What's Brat?
Thu, 25 Jul 2024
Most of the media-verse right now is focused on a handful of serious and important questions: Kamala...
Has Criminal Justice Reform Made Our Cities Unsafe? A Live Debate.
Tue, 23 Jul 2024
The United States locks up nearly two million people, the highest number of prisoners for any countr...
The Free Press Live: Biden Drops Out
Mon, 22 Jul 2024
Tonight, President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and endorsed Kamala Harris to be the Democ...
Disenchanted with Democrats: The Black Voters Going for Trump
Thu, 18 Jul 2024
For the past few decades, it’s been conventional wisdom in D.C. that “demographics are destiny.”...
The Free Press LIVE from the RNC: Biden’s Interview, Trump, J.D. Vance, and More!
Tue, 16 Jul 2024
A lot happened in American politics last night: the Biden interview, the Vance unveiling, Trump’s ...
The Roots of the Assassination Attempt
Tue, 16 Jul 2024
As you now well know, at 6:11 p.m. on Saturday evening, shots rang out at a Trump rally in Butler, P...
Salena Zito Was Four Feet Away When She Heard the Bullets
Sun, 14 Jul 2024
Yesterday, Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A few minutes into the rally, a...
Are We Living in ‘Late Soviet America’? Niall Ferguson and Jonah Goldberg Debate.
Thu, 11 Jul 2024
A few weeks ago, fresh from being knighted by King Charles, historian Sir Niall Ferguson officially ...
Bari and Nellie Are Having Another Baby—and They Have Questions!
Tue, 09 Jul 2024
As some of you know, Nellie and Bari are having another baby—any moment now—maybe even by the ti...
When a President Drops Out: What Biden Can Learn from 1968
Thu, 04 Jul 2024
On our nation’s 248th birthday, Joe Biden faces the wrath of a thousand pundits. The whole world w...
Will President Biden Drop Out?
Thu, 04 Jul 2024
The past few days have been perhaps the most dramatic political spectacle since November 8, 2016. Ev...
Hello, and Welcome to My TED Talk
Tue, 02 Jul 2024
In January, I was announced as a 2024 TED speaker in Vancouver. Predictably, a small group of very l...
About Last Night. . .
Fri, 28 Jun 2024
There was no raucous audience cheering and jeering last night in Atlanta, but the first presidential...
The Story of Matthew Shepard’s Murder Changed America. But It Wasn't True.
Thu, 27 Jun 2024
In April 1997, Ellen was on the cover of Time magazine declaring, “Yep, I’m Gay.” Then a few w...
Can Israel Actually Win This War?
Tue, 25 Jun 2024
When Hamas attacked Israel eight months ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s war g...
Was Legalizing Weed a Mistake? A Debate.
Thu, 20 Jun 2024
It’s been a little over a decade since cannabis was first legalized recreationally in the United S...
Steven Pinker: Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things
Tue, 18 Jun 2024
Steven Pinker is a world-renowned cognitive psychologist, and is widely regarded as one of the most ...
“I Was Wrong About Anti Semitism”: Sheryl Sandberg on Waking Up
Thu, 13 Jun 2024
Last Saturday, stunning news broke out of Israel: four hostages had been rescued by the Israel Defen...
The Former Russian Official Calling for a Coup Against Putin
Tue, 11 Jun 2024
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, it was the largest military attack on a European count...
BONUS: Is the Trump Verdict a Witch Trial? Or Justice?
Sat, 08 Jun 2024
On May 30, former president Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business...
Argentina's President Javier Milei Loves Being the Skunk at the Garden Party
Thu, 06 Jun 2024
At the start of the twentieth century, Argentina was one of the wealthiest countries in the world. T...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Subversion of the West
Tue, 04 Jun 2024
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the author of several books—including the 2006 autobiography Infidel—as well ...
How ‘Vice’ Went from a $6 Billion Media Empire to Bankruptcy
Thu, 30 May 2024
Fifteen years ago, Vice was the envy of the media industry. While other outlets were shrinking, the ...
Jerry Seinfeld on the Rules of Comedy—and Life
Tue, 28 May 2024
The first episode of Seinfeld aired in 1989. Thirty-five years later, the show remains at the apex o...
Is Israel's War Just? Eli Lake and Michael Moynihan v Briahna Joy Gray and Jake Klein
Sun, 26 May 2024
A few weeks ago, there was an awesome event in Brooklyn in partnership with UnHerd called Dissident ...
Nellie Bowles Knows Why So Many Progressives Lost Their Minds—She Almost Did, Too
Tue, 14 May 2024
Nellie Bowles wasn’t always the TGIF queen you know and love at The Free Press. In fact, Nellie w...
Ozempic: Silver Bullet or Devil’s Bargain?
Tue, 07 May 2024
There’s a new $6 billion-dollar industry. Its global market size is expected to increase to $100 b...
‘Small Talk’ with David Sedaris
Thu, 02 May 2024
The news lately has not exactly been a walk in the park. Iran launched hundreds of rockets at Israel...
Should the U.S. Shut Its Borders? A Live Debate.
Tue, 30 Apr 2024
The United States is home to more immigrants than any other country in the world. It is a truism tha...
Is Banning TikTok a Mistake? A Debate.
Fri, 26 Apr 2024
President Biden just signed into law a bill forcing the sale of TikTok by its Chinese parent ByteDan...
Rising Antisemitism and Choosing Freedom
Mon, 22 Apr 2024
This weekend at Columbia and Yale, student demonstrators told Jewish students to “go back to Polan...
Nicole Avant on Tragedy, Forgiveness, and Thinking Free
Thu, 18 Apr 2024
It was November 30, 2021, when Nicole Avant got a call in the middle of the night from her husband. ...
Iran Attacked Israel. What Comes Next?
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
In the late hours of Saturday night 170 drones, 120 ballistic missiles, and 30 cruise missiles barre...
NPR Editor Speaks Out: How National Public Radio Lost Americans' Trust
Tue, 09 Apr 2024
Uri Berliner is a senior business editor at NPR. In his 25 years with NPR, his work has been recogni...
How the Working Class Became America’s Second Class
Tue, 02 Apr 2024
On Election Night 2016, many of us thought we knew who would be the next president of the United Sta...
The Story of Someone Who Changed His Mind
Thu, 28 Mar 2024
If the First Industrial Revolution used water and steam to fundamentally change the nature of work, ...
Smartphones Rewired Childhood. Here's How to Fix It.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has been explaining the human condition to us better than anyone ...
The Free Press in Israel Part 3: The Gathering Storm
Thu, 21 Mar 2024
Today, we close out the Israel series with a conversation with the journalist Haviv Rettig Gur, who ...
The Free Press in Israel Part 2: Shattered Illusions
Fri, 15 Mar 2024
When we went to Israel, we tried tirelessly to get into Gaza but Israel’s counteroffensive made it...
The Free Press in Israel Part 1: Running Toward Fire
Thu, 07 Mar 2024
What happens when a country has to ask its citizens the unthinkable: What are you willing to die for...
Trailer: The Free Press in Israel
Tue, 05 Mar 2024
A few weeks ago, a team of Free Press producers and reporters arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Tel A...
Why the Kids Aren't Alright
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
American kids are the freest, most privileged kids in all of history. They are also the saddest, mos...
Two Years Later: Should America Continue to Aid Ukraine? A Debate.
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
Two years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. The costs of this war have been unbelie...
Alexei Navalny Died for the Truth. Tucker Carlson Fell for the Lie.
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
Last week, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny joined a long line of ordinary and noble people ...
Special Episode! Suzy Weiss on Dating While Problematic
Thu, 15 Feb 2024
Today, we’re thrilled to bring you not Honestly with Bari Weiss, but maybe something even better: ...
Economist Roland Fryer on Adversity, Race, and Refusing to Conform
Tue, 13 Feb 2024
A little over two years ago, in the pages of The Free Press, Pano Kanelos announced that he was star...
Andrew Sullivan on What He Got Wrong About Trump
Fri, 09 Feb 2024
For this week’s Honestly, we’re sharing a favorite episode from a favorite podcast, one you may ...
The Real Team America
Thu, 01 Feb 2024
There’s increasing concern that as scary as this period feels—between Russia’s two-year war in...
The Right Way to Fight Illiberalism: Christopher Rufo and Yascha Mounk Debate
Fri, 26 Jan 2024
Today, Yascha Mounk and Christopher Rufo debate the origins of DEI and the right way to fight the il...
Why We Still Need to Talk About America's Covid Failures
Wed, 17 Jan 2024
It’s been four years since the first American death from the coronavirus. Four years since we were...
The Silence of the Feminists
Mon, 15 Jan 2024
One hundred days ago, the world changed. October 7 has proven to be many things: the opening salvo i...
Can Dean Phillips Pull Off the Impossible: Defeat Joe Biden?
Wed, 10 Jan 2024
We're less than two weeks out from the first Democratic Primary in New Hampshire, and the mood among...
What to Expect in 2024: Predictions from Niall Ferguson, Tyler Cowen, Peter Attia, John McWhorter and More
Fri, 05 Jan 2024
Last year was certainly eventful. It brought spy balloons, Donald Trump’s indictments, the coronat...
Wisdom from a Teen and a Grandfather—60 Years Apart
Mon, 25 Dec 2023
Over the last six months, we’ve run two essay contests in The Free Press. The first was for high ...
The Case of Kate Cox—and the Trouble with the Abortion Debate
Fri, 22 Dec 2023
Over the last month, America has been witnessing one of the biggest abortion battles in the country ...
Miracle in Hell: The Baby Twins Who Survived a Massacre
Wed, 20 Dec 2023
On October 7, Hamas terrorists stormed into the home of Hadar and Itay Berdichevsky in Kibbutz Kfar ...
A Congressional Hearing, A Resignation, and Why DEI Must End For Good
Thu, 14 Dec 2023
How did the congressional hearing on antisemitism last week go so awry? Was the resignation of Univ...
Why Half of American Babies are Born to Unmarried Mothers
Fri, 08 Dec 2023
One of the words that’s become utterly void of meaning in the last few years because of its overus...
Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
Wed, 29 Nov 2023
In the past few decades, the Democratic Party has undergone a seismic shift. Kitchen table issues li...
David Sedaris: Punching Down
Tue, 21 Nov 2023
It’s Thanksgiving week, which for many of us means eating too much turkey and pumpkin pie. For oth...
Priests, Porn Stars and Public Intellectuals All Agree: Debate is Back.
Fri, 17 Nov 2023
When The Free Press decided to rent a theater with 1,600 seats for our first-ever live debate a few ...
You Are the Last Line of Defense
Tue, 14 Nov 2023
Months ago, I was asked to give a lecture at the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention....
Sam Harris: The Bright Line Between Good and Evil
Sun, 12 Nov 2023
For today’s episode, we’re thrilled to share the most recent episode of our friend Sam Harris’...
Does Elon Musk Have Too Much Power?
Wed, 08 Nov 2023
For the longest time, when you thought about the most powerful person in the world, the person who p...
A World Spinning Out of Control
Tue, 31 Oct 2023
There are a lot of experts that you may have heard on the news in the past few weeks. People who kno...
How Hamas Executed a Massacre, and How One Israeli with Nine Bullets Fought Back
Fri, 27 Oct 2023
It’s been almost three weeks since Hamas attacked Israel. And there are three questions that, desp...
The Stories—and Stakes—of War in Israel
Wed, 18 Oct 2023
If you’ve been following our coverage at The Free Press, you’ve noticed that we’ve been coveri...
The New Axis of Evil: Condoleezza Rice on War in Israel and a Changed World
Fri, 13 Oct 2023
In the early hours of Saturday morning on October 7, Israel was invaded by Hamas terrorists by land,...
Bring Back My Children: An Israeli Mother's Plea
Mon, 09 Oct 2023
Given the war in Israel, we’re going to do something different on Honestly for a bit. Over the nex...
War in Israel: Michael Oren Explains How ‘Evil’ Infiltrated the Country
Sat, 07 Oct 2023
On October 7, Hamas terrorists streamed across the border in pickup trucks, on foot, by motorcycle, ...
James Carville Says Wokeness “Is Over,” 2024 Will Be “Dangerous”—and Much More from the Democratic Political Icon
Wed, 04 Oct 2023
James Carville, America’s best-known Democratic political consultant, has been on the scene for a ...
We're All "a Little Bit Dumber": A Night Among GOP Hopefuls
Fri, 29 Sep 2023
On Wednesday night, Fox Business and Rumble hosted the second Republican presidential debate at the ...
Is Biden Too Old to Be President? Frank Foer Isn't Sure.
Thu, 21 Sep 2023
As we tumble toward 2024, anxiety among Democrats is beginning to simmer. It’s easy to understand ...
Replay: Why Leonard Cohen Ran Toward War
Sun, 17 Sep 2023
In 1973, Leonard Cohen announced he was done with music for good. The same year, in October, war bro...
What We're Listening To: Does Anyone Have a Right To Sex?
Thu, 07 Sep 2023
This week, while our audio team is on summer break, we’re featuring an episode from one of our fav...
What We're Listening To: Richard Dawkins on UnHerd
Thu, 31 Aug 2023
The team’s on vacation, so for this week’s Honestly, we’re sharing a favorite episode from a f...
The First GOP Debate and The Elephant Not In The Room
Thu, 24 Aug 2023
On Wednesday night, Fox News and the streaming platform Rumble hosted the first Republican president...
Meet Will Hurd: The Ex-CIA, Anti-Trump Republican Who Wants To Be President
Tue, 15 Aug 2023
If you’ve been listening to this show for the past few months, maybe even since the 2022 midterms,...
How to Live After Profound Loss
Thu, 10 Aug 2023
Colin Campbell says that the way our society treats grief—and people in grief—is cruel and backw...
Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Wants a Second American Revolution
Tue, 01 Aug 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy, at 37 years old, is the first ever millennial Republican presidential candidate. He...
Are We In A Pre-War Era?
Thu, 27 Jul 2023
Recently, Walter Russell Mead wrote an outstanding article in Tablet titled “You Are Not Destined ...
Rethinking Higher Ed with Harvard’s Former President
Fri, 21 Jul 2023
Last week I found myself in Sun Valley, Idaho, at a conference with a lot of big wigs. Among them wa...
Are We Living Through 'End Times'?
Wed, 19 Jul 2023
Peter Turchin is not like most historians. For starters, he has an unusual background as an evolut...
When Ideology Corrupts Medicine—and How One Reporter Exposed It
Wed, 12 Jul 2023
Last month, Britain’s National Health Service made major news when they announced that they were b...
Affirmative Action, Gay Rights, and Free Speech: What The Supreme Court's Rulings Mean for America
Fri, 07 Jul 2023
Last week, the Supreme Court handed down, as they usually do as the term comes to an end, a flurry o...
Chris Christie Endorsed Trump Twice. Now He Wants To Eliminate Him.
Thu, 29 Jun 2023
In 2016, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was one of 17 Republicans in a crowded field tryi...
RFK Jr. Is Striking a Nerve. He Explains Why.
Wed, 21 Jun 2023
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. is the rare Kennedy who hasn’t yet joined the family business. But at a...
How To Dad in 2023: A Roundtable With Our Favorite Fathers
Fri, 16 Jun 2023
Happy Father's Day! For today's episode, a conversation about fatherhood with three dads who have th...
What Jordan Neely’s Death Tells Us About Mental Illness and Vigilantism
Wed, 07 Jun 2023
On May 1, 2023, a 30-year-old homeless man named Jordan Neely boarded the F train in New York City. ...
How to Live Longer and Healthier with Dr. Peter Attia
Thu, 01 Jun 2023
It’s almost hard to believe, but in the 1950s doctors were frequently portrayed in TV commercials ...
Get To Know Tim Scott: The GOP’s Newest Presidential Hopeful
Mon, 22 May 2023
Earlier today, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott entered the race for President. That makes him the s...
Israel at 75: Miracles and Madness
Wed, 17 May 2023
Seventy-five years ago this week, the Jewish community of Palestine (known as the yishuv) gathered i...
America Needs a Self-Help Book. Tim Urban's Got One.
Fri, 12 May 2023
A few years ago, writer and cartoonist Tim Urban started becoming troubled by what he saw going on i...
Peter Thiel Says America Has Bigger Problems Than Wokeness
Wed, 03 May 2023
Peter Thiel doesn’t shy away from taking big bets. From Facebook (he was the company’s first out...
AI With Sam Altman: The End of The World? Or The Dawn of a New One?
Thu, 27 Apr 2023
Just six months ago, few outside of Silicon Valley had heard of OpenAI, the company that makes the a...
‘My Friend’s Descent into Madness and Bloodshed’: An American Tragedy
Wed, 19 Apr 2023
Jonathan Rosen has spent the last few years trying to understand the story of his closest childhood ...
Our Favorite Passover Conversation
Mon, 10 Apr 2023
The Exodus—the story of the Israelites’ freedom from Egyptian slavery 3,000 years ago—is the u...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams
Mon, 03 Apr 2023
New York City has had a rough few years. It lost nearly four percent of its population during the p...
Rick Rubin Says Trust Your Gut, Not Your Audience
Wed, 29 Mar 2023
People don’t usually think about Adele in the same breath as Johnny Cash. The Beastie Boys in the ...
Bank Runs, Crypto Scams and World-Transforming AI with Tyler Cowen
Tue, 21 Mar 2023
The last time economist Tyler Cowen was on Honestly about a year ago, inflation was the highest it h...
Why Men Seek Danger
Thu, 16 Mar 2023
When most people think about war, they think about senseless killing, brutality, violence and horror...
Honestly Presents: The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling
Fri, 10 Mar 2023
Honestly presents Chapter 1 of The Witch Trails of J.K. Rowling Host Megan Phelps-Roper writes a let...
Why Nikki Haley Is Running for President
Thu, 02 Mar 2023
Last month, Nikki Haley announced she is running for President. Haley is someone who has consistentl...
A Gen Z Religious Revival: 250 Hours of Worship in Kentucky
Wed, 22 Feb 2023
For the past two weeks, tens of thousands of people, most of them college students, poured into a sm...
Will Ozempic Solve Obesity in America? A Debate
Wed, 15 Feb 2023
Ozempic, the brand name drug for a medication called semaglutide, is one of the most popular drugs o...
Why 65% of Fourth Graders Can't Really Read
Fri, 10 Feb 2023
For many parents, the last few years have been eye-opening, as they saw the education system in Amer...
A Golden Age of Gurus
Tue, 31 Jan 2023
Over the last decade, the internet has devolved into a playground for influencers who sell and show ...
America's Role in the Holocaust: Ken Burns on The Most Important Film He Will Ever Make
Thu, 26 Jan 2023
Ken Burns is the most famous documentary filmmaker in America. He has made 35 films over the past 5 ...
America’s Broken Immigration System: An Honest Debate
Tue, 17 Jan 2023
The debate about immigration brings out some of the deepest anxieties and biggest disagreements in A...
Raw & Unclassified: A Friday Roundtable
Fri, 13 Jan 2023
From Biden getting on board the classified documents train to the raw milk revolutionaries who are s...
Bad Moms with Emily Oster
Thu, 05 Jan 2023
When my wife Nellie was pregnant last year, we became obsessed with Economist Emily Oster’s book, ...
A Holiday Treat with David Sedaris!
Thu, 22 Dec 2022
David Sedaris is a humorist and author of many best selling books: Calypso, Theft By Finding, Let’...
The Twitter Files and the Future of the Democratic Party With Silicon Valley's Congressman
Fri, 16 Dec 2022
Ro Khanna is a progressive congressman representing California's 17th District, the wealthiest Congr...
The State of the Black-Jewish Relationship in America: A Roundtable
Fri, 09 Dec 2022
For the last month, Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been all over the internet with his conspi...
Bibi Netanyahu: Israel's New Prime Minister. Again.
Wed, 30 Nov 2022
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a polarizing figure. For some, he's the ultimate defender of th...
A Better Way to Disagree
Wed, 23 Nov 2022
A few months ago, I had writer Freddie deBoer on the podcast for an episode we called, “Does Glori...
Nuclear War Games with HR McMaster
Wed, 16 Nov 2022
Last week, Ukraine recaptured the city of Kherson from the Russians. It was one of the most stunning...
The Midterms No One Saw Coming: A Postmortem
Wed, 09 Nov 2022
With inflation soaring, the worst crime wave in decades, and Biden’s approval rating at a pitiful ...
Who Do Voters Hate More? A Midterm Roundtable.
Thu, 03 Nov 2022
Less than a week out from election day, and more than 20 million people have already cast their vote...
Has Criminal Justice Reform Made Us Less Safe? A Debate.
Wed, 26 Oct 2022
Over the past two years, the United States has experienced the largest crime surge in decades. Aggra...
Why We Must Save Our Boys
Wed, 19 Oct 2022
Let’s talk about the state of men in America: For every 100 bachelor degrees awarded to women, 74 ...
How to Change Your Mind
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
In a world where the personal has become political, and politics has swallowed everything, the stake...
The Iranian Regime's Most Wanted Woman
Fri, 07 Oct 2022
Last month, a 22 year old Kurdish Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, was arrested in Tehran by the Islamic ...
From Racial Reckoning to Race Abolition
Wed, 28 Sep 2022
Today’s episode is borrowed from the feed of the great podcast The Fifth Column. Usually hosted by...
The Great Canadian Mass Graves Hoax
Thu, 22 Sep 2022
Last year, The New York Times dropped a bombshell headline: “‘Horrible History’: Mass Grave of...
Eating Ourselves to Death
Thu, 15 Sep 2022
Fifteen years ago, there was a lot of talk about the obesity epidemic. In 2008, Michelle Obama start...
Has Freedom Failed Us? A Debate
Thu, 08 Sep 2022
If there is a headline to the past half-decade, it’s this: liberal democracy is under threat acros...
Oberlin Accused the Gibsons of Racism. Now It Owes Them $36 Million.
Thu, 01 Sep 2022
On November 9, 2016, the day after Trump was elected president, three students from Oberlin College ...
Bill Barr Calls Bullsh*t
Thu, 25 Aug 2022
Attorney General William Barr is only the second person in American history to lead the Justice Depa...
Larry Summers: The High Price of Getting it Right
Thu, 18 Aug 2022
Larry Summers is one of the most important economists in the world. He’s been the chief economist ...
We Ignored Salman Rushdie’s Warning
Tue, 16 Aug 2022
We live in a culture in which many people believe that words are violence. In this, they have much i...
The Senate’s Only Black Republican Says: Stop Being Pessimistic
Wed, 10 Aug 2022
Tim Scott is a rare bird: He is the only black Republican in the Senate. But the quality that makes ...
Sex, Porn, Feminism: A Debate!
Wed, 03 Aug 2022
It’s hard to think of an invention that has been more transformative to women than the birth contr...
The Eternally Radical Idea
Wed, 27 Jul 2022
There is no organization that’s done more to fight for freedom of speech on American campuses over...
Election Denial: A Roundtable
Wed, 20 Jul 2022
Denying the outcome of elections has become alarmingly popular these days. In one corner, Democrats...
The Infamous Andrew Schulz
Fri, 15 Jul 2022
There’s a tried-and-true playbook for comedians who want to make it big: hit the road, get in fron...
Does Glorifying Sickness Deter Healing?
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
In Bari’s view, Freddie deBoer is one of the best writers in the country. It’s not because she a...
The New Founders America Needs
Thu, 07 Jul 2022
There are nearly 4000 universities in the U.S.. Many of them have billions of dollars in endowments ...
The Holy Anarchy of Fun
Mon, 04 Jul 2022
No writer stokes more consistent envy among Common Sense editors than Walter Kirn. Two of his essays...
Power and Politics with Mike Pompeo
Fri, 01 Jul 2022
With everything going on here at home you can be forgiven for not focusing on what’s going on in M...
America After Roe: A Roundtable
Tue, 28 Jun 2022
Few decisions could inspire so much anger and sadness in one group of Americans—and so much joy an...
Is Crypto Over? A Debate!
Tue, 21 Jun 2022
If you watched the Super Bowl this year, it was hard not to notice that cryptocurrency had fully arr...
TGIF! Inflation, Drag Queens & DA's
Fri, 17 Jun 2022
If you read Common Sense, you know that the best day of the week is Friday, when Nellie Bowles deliv...
The Case for American Seriousness
Wed, 15 Jun 2022
We live in a culture that is driven by nay-saying. In one corner, people insist that the individual ...
What To Do About Guns
Thu, 09 Jun 2022
Tulsa. Buffalo. Uvalde. Philadelphia. Chicago. And that’s just the past few weeks. If you’re li...
Marianne Williamson on America’s ‘Dark Psychic Force’
Tue, 31 May 2022
When Marianne Williamson stood on the presidential debate stage in 2020 and spoke about the “dark ...
The Battle for the American Right
Wed, 25 May 2022
We are living through a seismic political realignment. The parties and the political movements that ...
What’s the Best Way to Raise Good People? A Debate
Wed, 18 May 2022
There is no subject—not Trump, not abortion, not immigration, not taxes-–that is more contentiou...
The Yale Law Professor Who Is Anti-Roe, But Pro-Choice
Wed, 11 May 2022
Akhil Reed Amar is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale university, where he’...
TGIF: Welcome Back to Both 1973 and 1984
Fri, 06 May 2022
If you read Common Sense, you know that the best day of the week is Friday, when Nellie Bowles deliv...
Why This Gay Rights Pioneer Opposes Gender Ideology
Tue, 03 May 2022
In 1989, Andrew Sullivan wrote “Here Comes The Groom,” an essay making the conservative case for...
Your Attention Didn't Collapse. It Was Stolen.
Wed, 27 Apr 2022
The average American adult spends over three hours a day staring into their phone. If you’re a tee...
TGIF! Libs of TikTok, CNN+ and Much More
Fri, 22 Apr 2022
If you read Common Sense, you know that the best day of the week is Friday, when Nellie Bowles deliv...
The Inflation Economy: What You Need to Know
Tue, 19 Apr 2022
If you’re confused about what is happening with the economy right now, so are we. Why is inflation...
The Story That Made—and Saved—America
Thu, 14 Apr 2022
The Exodus—the story of the Israelites’ freedom from Egyptian slavery 3,000 years ago—is the u...
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Tue, 12 Apr 2022
Perhaps you’ve noticed that the thing we call “social media'' is deeply antisocial—the thing t...
TGIF! The Week That Was With Nellie Bowles and Katie Herzog
Fri, 08 Apr 2022
If you read Common Sense, you know that the best day of the week is Friday, when Nellie Bowles deliv...
Who By Fire: Why Leonard Cohen Ran Toward War
Wed, 06 Apr 2022
In 1973, Leonard Cohen announced he was done with music for good. The same year, in October, war bro...
How Big Tech Is Strangling Your Freedom
Tue, 29 Mar 2022
David Sacks is a paradox. The entrepreneur and venture capitalist helped lay the foundations of the ...
Leaving the Mainstream to Build Media Without Fear
Fri, 25 Mar 2022
Today we are republishing Bari’s appearance on Hoover Institute’s Uncommon Knowledge Podcast, ho...
“The Fight Against Evil”: Three Reporters in Ukraine
Wed, 23 Mar 2022
It’s been a month since Russia invaded Ukraine. About a fourth of Ukraine’s population has been ...
Why No One Trusts Anything
Fri, 18 Mar 2022
What if I told you that all the brokenness in our society—from the increased rates in suicide and ...
Things Worth Fighting For
Wed, 16 Mar 2022
For the past three weeks, we have watched the people of Ukraine and their president breathe life int...
The Stakes of a No Fly Zone
Thu, 10 Mar 2022
Russia’s war against Ukraine has been raging on for almost two weeks now and Ukraine is in crisis....
Watching Lia Thomas Win
Sun, 06 Mar 2022
Lia Thomas is a transgender woman who has, in one year, become the star athlete of the women’s swi...
Russia's War on Ukraine: A Roundtable
Thu, 03 Mar 2022
Air raid sirens have been ringing out over the capital of Ukraine for the past week. Russian troops ...
America Is Afraid of War. Putin Knows It.
Fri, 25 Feb 2022
Zoe Strimpel on the collapse of Western authority, self and geopolitical understanding— and the pr...
Condoleezza Rice on Race, Russia, Freedom and Why America’s Best Days Are Still Ahead
Tue, 22 Feb 2022
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is one of those pioneering American leaders whose story i...
Beijing's Genocide Olympics
Wed, 16 Feb 2022
Right now, the Winter Olympics are underway in Beijing. But for the Chinese Communist Party, the 202...
Former Google CEO on Big Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Bitcoin and the Future
Fri, 11 Feb 2022
Eric Scmidt has been a pioneer at every chapter of the tech revolution… from the very beginnings o...
Matt Taibbi v. Bret Stephens on American Power
Wed, 09 Feb 2022
Ever since the end of World War II, America has been the dominant world superpower. We have been rea...
Why Are We Boosting Kids?
Fri, 04 Feb 2022
The Covid vaccines are medical miracles. During the pandemic they have been literal life-savers; I’...
The Tiger Mom Won't Stop Roaring
Wed, 02 Feb 2022
It’s hard to think of an institution in American life that’s more broken than higher education. ...
An Imam Blows the Whistle on Muslim Antisemitism
Thu, 27 Jan 2022
As a boy growing up in Turkey, Abdullah Antepli thought hating Jews was normal. He read Mein Kampf b...
The Aftermath Part 2: The Haves and The Have Nots
Fri, 21 Jan 2022
At this point in the pandemic, one group of Americans generally gets to show their faces. The other ...
The Aftermath Part 1: Kids, Schools, and the Crime Surge
Wed, 19 Jan 2022
As we approach the third year of this pandemic, it’s become painfully clear that the stringent mea...
Bringing Sanity to the Omicron Chaos: Three Doctors Weigh In
Fri, 14 Jan 2022
Have you hit a wall with Covid? We have. The irrationality of the current policies and conversati...
Humans Are More Resilient Than You Think
Wed, 12 Jan 2022
We are living in an era in which Americans–especially younger ones–say they are increasingly tra...
Investigating January 6th: The Price Liz Cheney Paid
Thu, 06 Jan 2022
A year ago today, something big happened in Washington. Was it a coup? Was it an insurrection? Was i...
Replay: America's Cultural Revolution
Thu, 30 Dec 2021
As the year ends, we want to share where this podcast began and replay our first episode. What does...
Replay: Why You’re Right – And Wrong – About Abortion
Tue, 28 Dec 2021
The abortion debate is top of mind as we enter 2022, with a pending supreme court decision that coul...
Replay: The Real Story of “The Central Park Karen”
Thu, 23 Dec 2021
Over the next few days we are going to be replaying some listener favorites from the last year, sta...
Abigail Shrier: On Freedom in an Age of Fear
Tue, 21 Dec 2021
Abigail Shrier, the author of the bestselling book “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Sed...
The Power of Kim Kardashian
Thu, 16 Dec 2021
Just when we think we have Kim Kardashian pinned she adds another hyphen. She’s a reality star, un...
Jussie Smollett and Hate Crime Hoaxes
Fri, 10 Dec 2021
In 2019, Jussie Smollett’s hate crime allegations captured the nation. The actor and singer claime...
Quick Question: WTF Is Going on With the Economy?
Fri, 03 Dec 2021
Eccentric economist and brilliant thinker Tyler Cowen answers our questions about the confusing stat...
Vanished by China: One Couple’s Story
Wed, 01 Dec 2021
Desmond Shum knows well the cost of doing business in China. Born to a humble family that was margin...
Is Covid… Over? And Other Burning Questions This Thanksgiving
Tue, 23 Nov 2021
If your family is anything like mine, Thanksgiving is an opportunity to take a break from work, to b...
The Media’s Verdict on Kyle Rittenhouse
Wed, 17 Nov 2021
Here is what I thought was true about Kyle Rittenhouse in the last days of August 2020: The 17-year-...
Can Andrew Yang Fix Our Two-Party Dumpster Fire?
Wed, 10 Nov 2021
First, Andrew Yang ran for President, and he could barely get mainstream media’s attention. Then, ...
Weekend Extra: Why ‘People Love Dead Jews’
Sun, 07 Nov 2021
It’s been three years since the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, the most lethal attack on Jews on...
How “Luxury Beliefs” Hurt the Rest of Us
Thu, 04 Nov 2021
"Defund the police" or "healthy at every size" or "marriage is just an oppressive institution of the...
Women Like Hunting Witches, Too
Thu, 28 Oct 2021
If you’ve just heard of the word “TERF” (it stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) it...
Pain, Wisdom and Mercy
Tue, 19 Oct 2021
Ross Douthat is a New York Times columnist, a father of four, an author . . . and also someone who l...
Was the Internet a Horrible Mistake?
Wed, 13 Oct 2021
Last week, Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, confirmed what we already felt; that big tech...
Why You're Wrong—and Right—About Abortion
Wed, 06 Oct 2021
The most honest thing I’ve ever read about abortion is by Caitlin Flanagan. It’s called “The D...
Wrongthink on Race With Glenn C. Loury
Wed, 29 Sep 2021
Four decades ago, Glenn C. Loury became the first tenured black professor of economics in Harvard’...
Vaccine Hesitant? A Doctor Responds
Wed, 22 Sep 2021
So much of the conversation about Covid-19 is angry and full of finger-pointing. Dr. Vinay Prasad ha...
The Story of One Teenager's Escape From Afghanistan
Fri, 17 Sep 2021
It’s been a month since the fall of Afghanistan. And Black Hawk helicopters and Humvees aren’t t...
Portland State Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Peter Boghossian Quit.
Fri, 10 Sep 2021
Peter Boghossian is the first one to tell you: he's no victim of cancel culture. The philosophy prof...
Courage in the Face of Book Burners
Wed, 08 Sep 2021
Abigail Shrier is a lawyer, a reporter and author of Irreversible Damage. One way to describe her ...
American Decline Is a Choice. Let's Not Choose It.
Wed, 01 Sep 2021
Between the catastrophic American withdrawal from Afghanistan, an endless pandemic, a broken educati...
You’re Already Living in China’s World Pt 2: Beijing's Long Game
Wed, 25 Aug 2021
In Part II, a diagnosis of the global ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party with Josh Rogin. Josh...
You're Already Living in China’s World Pt 1: The Lab Leak Lies
Mon, 23 Aug 2021
When the pandemic began eighteen months ago, anyone who dared suggest that the virus came from a lab...
How We Failed Afghanistan (And Ourselves) with HR McMaster
Thu, 19 Aug 2021
How did this happen? How did we spend 20 years, over 2 trillion dollars and over 2,000 American live...
When American Doctors Are Scared to Tell the Truth
Wed, 11 Aug 2021
For several months, the journalist Katie Herzog has been talking to some of the country's top doctor...
The Real Story of “The Central Park Karen”
Tue, 03 Aug 2021
Amy Cooper was not the internet’s first “Karen” — the pejorative used for a demanding, enti...
Bigger, Stronger, Faster: The Truth About Testosterone
Thu, 29 Jul 2021
Why are men the way they are? Are they naturally more aggressive? And is it fair for transwomen to c...
A 21st Century Witch Hunt
Mon, 26 Jul 2021
Maud Maron is the picture of a passionate progressive. She was a Planned Parenthood escort; a resear...
You're Being Lied To
Tue, 20 Jul 2021
One year after her resignation from the New York Times, Bari sits down with author (and America's mo...
Rufo v. French: Should Schools Ban Critical Race Theory?
Tue, 13 Jul 2021
All of a sudden, the phrase "Critical Race Theory" seems like it's everywhere. If you are confused b...
America's Sex Recession
Wed, 07 Jul 2021
A recent study from the American Medical Association found that one-third of men between the ages of...
Why Winston Marshall Left Mumford & Sons
Thu, 01 Jul 2021
For 14 years, Winston Marshall was the banjo player and lead guitarist of the massively successful b...
When a Free Society Becomes a Police State
Sun, 27 Jun 2021
For 26 years, the swash-buckling, pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily was a thorn in the side of the C...
Revolt of The Public
Wed, 16 Jun 2021
Why does every institution feel so broken? Why would newspapers sacrifice their credibility to suppr...
Mark Cuban on F*ck You Money
Mon, 14 Jun 2021
The billionaire entrepreneur on the ProPublica tax report, capitalism, corporate cowardice, the Chin...
America's Cultural Revolution
Wed, 09 Jun 2021
What the public shaming of Palestinian immigrant Majdi Wadi — and the boycott of his Minneapolis b...
Official Trailer: Honestly with Bari Weiss
Fri, 04 Jun 2021
The most interesting conversations in American life now happen in private. This show is bringing the...