Honestly with Bari Weiss

Tue, 03 Dec 2024

This week marked a dramatic escalation in Syria’s 13-year civil war. Rebel factions launched their...

Sat, 30 Nov 2024

As you’re recovering from indulging in stuffing and pecan pie, we wanted to bring you a special bo...

Thu, 28 Nov 2024

Happy Thanksgiving, Honestly listeners! If you’re anything like the rest of America, you’ll be s...

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...

Thu, 21 Nov 2024

Throughout the election, we heard one warning, repeated ad infinitum: A Donald Trump victory would p...

Tue, 19 Nov 2024

Trump’s gains among working-class voters of all races—according to exit polls, he won the majori...

Thu, 14 Nov 2024

On Tuesday night, president-elect Donald Trump announced that the richest man in the world, Elon Mus...

Tue, 12 Nov 2024

Even your most optimistic Mar-a-Lago member didn’t see Donald Trump winning the popular vote and t...

Thu, 07 Nov 2024

Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States. . . again. It was a historic politi...

Tue, 05 Nov 2024

Our newsroom reflects our readers: We aren’t voting in unison. Today, Bari Weiss explains how The ...

Sat, 02 Nov 2024

Bullshit is an American tradition. Think the theatrics of P.T. Barnum, miracle products sold ad naus...

Thu, 31 Oct 2024

Need a break from political programming? Well, today we have a special treat: It’s The Free Press’...

Tue, 29 Oct 2024

There are no perfect candidates. But what do you do when both candidates are not just imperfect but ...

Sun, 27 Oct 2024

We don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that we’re standing at the precipice of what could ...

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...

Tue, 22 Oct 2024

In the last year, we’ve witnessed a disturbing trend among some on the fringe left, who cheer thos...

Thu, 17 Oct 2024

It would have been unthinkable for Brianna Wu to have appeared on Honestly a decade ago (if the show...

Tue, 15 Oct 2024

A few weeks ago, we had Sarah Longwell and David French, two prominent conservatives, on Honestly to...

Sat, 12 Oct 2024

We all know the horrid tale of what happened in Israel on October 7, 2023. Waves of gunmen attacked ...

Thu, 10 Oct 2024

We’ve released a few episodes on Honestly for the anniversary of October 7. Today, we’re bringin...

Mon, 07 Oct 2024

We expected Hamas to kill Jews. We didn’t expect Americans to celebrate it.  Today on Honestly, ...

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...

Wed, 02 Oct 2024

When we planned the conversation you’re going to hear today—a live conversation with Douglas Mur...

Tue, 01 Oct 2024

Megyn Kelly cut her teeth in the mainstream media and became one of the most influential voices in t...

Thu, 26 Sep 2024

Last week, a man armed with an assault rifle was apprehended on a southern Florida golf course. He w...

Tue, 24 Sep 2024

If you’re a listener of this show, then you’ve probably heard of the horseshoe theory. It’s ba...

Thu, 19 Sep 2024

On Tuesday, hundreds of encrypted pagers in Lebanon and Syria began exploding at the same time. Leba...

Tue, 17 Sep 2024

The American dream is the most important of our national myths. It’s the idea that, with hard work...

Wed, 11 Sep 2024

Last night was the much-anticipated presidential debate between incumbent vice president Kamala Harr...

Tue, 10 Sep 2024

Tucker Carlson is perhaps the country’s most influential conservative commentator; his eponymous p...

Sat, 07 Sep 2024

Last year, at colleges across America, students etched themselves into history, or infamy, with the ...

Thu, 05 Sep 2024

A few weeks ago, at the much-anticipated Democratic National Convention, we witnessed the coronation...

Tue, 03 Sep 2024

In the past few weeks, there’s been an increasing number of threats to freedom of speech around th...

Thu, 29 Aug 2024

John Mackey, co-founder of Whole Foods Market, is one of the most consequential American entrepreneu...

Tue, 27 Aug 2024

It’s that time of year again–reliably bumming out students and parents alike… it ’s back to ...

Fri, 23 Aug 2024

In the 1972 presidential election, Democratic candidate George McGovern was soundly defeated by Rich...

Tue, 20 Aug 2024

Most humans are cautious by nature. We naturally like to do what’s comfortable and safe. But comfo...

Thu, 15 Aug 2024

A few months ago, we learned about a young man whose name we’re withholding, which is something we...

Tue, 13 Aug 2024

Never before have people felt more comfortable weighing in on other people’s lives. What diet to ...

Thu, 08 Aug 2024

A few weeks ago, very few people outside of the Beltway and niche media circles had ever heard the n...

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...

Tue, 06 Aug 2024

On Monday, the markets had one of its worst trading days since the 2008 financial crisis. Stocks tum...

Thu, 01 Aug 2024

Today, we have a special story from two friends and former Free Pressers, Andy Mills and Matt Boll. ...

Tue, 30 Jul 2024

On Saturday afternoon, a Hezbollah rocket fired from southern Lebanon struck a soccer field in the v...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024

Most of the media-verse right now is focused on a handful of serious and important questions: Kamala...

Tue, 23 Jul 2024

The United States locks up nearly two million people, the highest number of prisoners for any countr...

Mon, 22 Jul 2024

Tonight, President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and endorsed Kamala Harris to be the Democ...

Thu, 18 Jul 2024

For the past few decades, it’s been conventional wisdom in D.C. that “demographics are destiny.”...

Tue, 16 Jul 2024

A lot happened in American politics last night: the Biden interview, the Vance unveiling, Trump’s ...

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...

Sun, 14 Jul 2024

Yesterday, Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A few minutes into the rally, a...

Thu, 11 Jul 2024

A few weeks ago, fresh from being knighted by King Charles, historian Sir Niall Ferguson officially ...

Tue, 09 Jul 2024

As some of you know, Nellie and Bari are having another baby—any moment now—maybe even by the ti...

Thu, 04 Jul 2024

On our nation’s 248th birthday, Joe Biden faces the wrath of a thousand pundits. The whole world w...

Thu, 04 Jul 2024

The past few days have been perhaps the most dramatic political spectacle since November 8, 2016. Ev...

Tue, 02 Jul 2024

In January, I was announced as a 2024 TED speaker in Vancouver. Predictably, a small group of very l...

Fri, 28 Jun 2024

There was no raucous audience cheering and jeering last night in Atlanta, but the first presidential...

Thu, 27 Jun 2024

In April 1997, Ellen was on the cover of Time magazine declaring, “Yep, I’m Gay.” Then a few w...

Tue, 25 Jun 2024

When Hamas attacked Israel eight months ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s war g...

Thu, 20 Jun 2024

It’s been a little over a decade since cannabis was first legalized recreationally in the United S...

Tue, 18 Jun 2024

Steven Pinker is a world-renowned cognitive psychologist, and is widely regarded as one of the most ...

Thu, 13 Jun 2024

Last Saturday, stunning news broke out of Israel: four hostages had been rescued by the Israel Defen...

Tue, 11 Jun 2024

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, it was the largest military attack on a European count...

Sat, 08 Jun 2024

On May 30, former president Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business...

Thu, 06 Jun 2024

At the start of the twentieth century, Argentina was one of the wealthiest countries in the world. T...

Tue, 04 Jun 2024

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the author of several books—including the 2006 autobiography Infidel—as well ...

Thu, 30 May 2024

Fifteen years ago, Vice was the envy of the media industry. While other outlets were shrinking, the ...

Tue, 28 May 2024

The first episode of Seinfeld aired in 1989. Thirty-five years later, the show remains at the apex o...

Sun, 26 May 2024

A few weeks ago, there was an awesome event in Brooklyn in partnership with UnHerd called Dissident ...

Tue, 14 May 2024

Nellie Bowles wasn’t always the TGIF queen you know and love at The Free Press. In fact, Nellie w...

Tue, 07 May 2024

There’s a new $6 billion-dollar industry. Its global market size is expected to increase to $100 b...

Thu, 02 May 2024

The news lately has not exactly been a walk in the park. Iran launched hundreds of rockets at Israel...

Tue, 30 Apr 2024

The United States is home to more immigrants than any other country in the world. It is a truism tha...

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

President Biden just signed into law a bill forcing the sale of TikTok by its Chinese parent ByteDan...

Mon, 22 Apr 2024

This weekend at Columbia and Yale, student demonstrators told Jewish students to “go back to Polan...

Thu, 18 Apr 2024

It was November 30, 2021, when Nicole Avant got a call in the middle of the night from her husband. ...

Tue, 16 Apr 2024

In the late hours of Saturday night 170 drones, 120 ballistic missiles, and 30 cruise missiles barre...

Tue, 09 Apr 2024

Uri Berliner is a senior business editor at NPR. In his 25 years with NPR, his work has been recogni...

Tue, 02 Apr 2024

On Election Night 2016, many of us thought we knew who would be the next president of the United Sta...

Thu, 28 Mar 2024

If the First Industrial Revolution used water and steam to fundamentally change the nature of work, ...

Tue, 26 Mar 2024

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has been explaining the human condition to us better than anyone ...

Thu, 21 Mar 2024

Today, we close out the Israel series with a conversation with the journalist Haviv Rettig Gur, who ...

Fri, 15 Mar 2024

When we went to Israel, we tried tirelessly to get into Gaza but Israel’s counteroffensive made it...

Thu, 07 Mar 2024

What happens when a country has to ask its citizens the unthinkable: What are you willing to die for...

Tue, 05 Mar 2024

A few weeks ago, a team of Free Press producers and reporters arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Tel A...

Tue, 27 Feb 2024

American kids are the freest, most privileged kids in all of history. They are also the saddest, mos...

Thu, 22 Feb 2024

Two years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. The costs of this war have been unbelie...

Tue, 20 Feb 2024

Last week, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny joined a long line of ordinary and noble people ...

Thu, 15 Feb 2024

Today, we’re thrilled to bring you not Honestly with Bari Weiss, but maybe something even better: ...

Tue, 13 Feb 2024

A little over two years ago, in the pages of The Free Press, Pano Kanelos announced that he was star...

Fri, 09 Feb 2024

For this week’s Honestly, we’re sharing a favorite episode from a favorite podcast, one you may ...

Thu, 01 Feb 2024

There’s increasing concern that as scary as this period feels—between Russia’s two-year war in...

Fri, 26 Jan 2024

Today, Yascha Mounk and Christopher Rufo debate the origins of DEI and the right way to fight the il...

Wed, 17 Jan 2024

It’s been four years since the first American death from the coronavirus. Four years since we were...

Mon, 15 Jan 2024

One hundred days ago, the world changed. October 7 has proven to be many things: the opening salvo i...

Wed, 10 Jan 2024

We're less than two weeks out from the first Democratic Primary in New Hampshire, and the mood among...

Fri, 05 Jan 2024

Last year was certainly eventful. It brought spy balloons, Donald Trump’s indictments, the coronat...

Mon, 25 Dec 2023

Over the last six months, we’ve run two essay contests in The Free Press. The first was for high ...

Fri, 22 Dec 2023

Over the last month, America has been witnessing one of the biggest abortion battles in the country ...

Wed, 20 Dec 2023

On October 7, Hamas terrorists stormed into the home of Hadar and Itay Berdichevsky in Kibbutz Kfar ...

Thu, 14 Dec 2023

How did the congressional hearing on antisemitism last week go so awry? Was the resignation of Univ...

Fri, 08 Dec 2023

One of the words that’s become utterly void of meaning in the last few years because of its overus...

Wed, 29 Nov 2023

In the past few decades, the Democratic Party has undergone a seismic shift. Kitchen table issues li...

Tue, 21 Nov 2023

It’s Thanksgiving week, which for many of us means eating too much turkey and pumpkin pie. For oth...

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 ...

Tue, 14 Nov 2023

Months ago, I was asked to give a lecture at the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention....

Sun, 12 Nov 2023

For today’s episode, we’re thrilled to share the most recent episode of our friend Sam Harris’...

Wed, 08 Nov 2023

For the longest time, when you thought about the most powerful person in the world, the person who p...

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...

Fri, 27 Oct 2023

It’s been almost three weeks since Hamas attacked Israel. And there are three questions that, desp...

Wed, 18 Oct 2023

If you’ve been following our coverage at The Free Press, you’ve noticed that we’ve been coveri...

Fri, 13 Oct 2023

In the early hours of Saturday morning on October 7, Israel was invaded by Hamas terrorists by land,...

Mon, 09 Oct 2023

Given the war in Israel, we’re going to do something different on Honestly for a bit. Over the nex...

Sat, 07 Oct 2023

On October 7, Hamas terrorists streamed across the border in pickup trucks, on foot, by motorcycle, ...

Wed, 04 Oct 2023

James Carville, America’s best-known Democratic political consultant, has been on the scene for a ...

Fri, 29 Sep 2023

On Wednesday night, Fox Business and Rumble hosted the second Republican presidential debate at the ...

Thu, 21 Sep 2023

As we tumble toward 2024, anxiety among Democrats is beginning to simmer. It’s easy to understand ...

Sun, 17 Sep 2023

In 1973, Leonard Cohen announced he was done with music for good. The same year, in October, war bro...

Thu, 07 Sep 2023

This week, while our audio team is on summer break, we’re featuring an episode from one of our fav...

Thu, 31 Aug 2023

The team’s on vacation, so for this week’s Honestly, we’re sharing a favorite episode from a f...

Thu, 24 Aug 2023

On Wednesday night, Fox News and the streaming platform Rumble hosted the first Republican president...

Tue, 15 Aug 2023

If you’ve been listening to this show for the past few months, maybe even since the 2022 midterms,...

Thu, 10 Aug 2023

Colin Campbell says that the way our society treats grief—and people in grief—is cruel and backw...

Tue, 01 Aug 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy, at 37 years old, is the first ever millennial Republican presidential candidate. He...

Thu, 27 Jul 2023

Recently, Walter Russell Mead wrote an outstanding article in Tablet titled “You Are Not Destined ...

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...

Wed, 19 Jul 2023

Peter Turchin is not like most historians.  For starters, he has an unusual background as an evolut...

Wed, 12 Jul 2023

Last month, Britain’s National Health Service made major news when they announced that they were b...

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...

Thu, 29 Jun 2023

In 2016, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was one of 17 Republicans in a crowded field tryi...

Wed, 21 Jun 2023

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. is the rare Kennedy who hasn’t yet joined the family business. But at a...

Fri, 16 Jun 2023

Happy Father's Day! For today's episode, a conversation about fatherhood with three dads who have th...

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. ...

Thu, 01 Jun 2023

It’s almost hard to believe, but in the 1950s doctors were frequently portrayed in TV commercials ...

Mon, 22 May 2023

Earlier today, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott entered the race for President. That makes him the s...

Wed, 17 May 2023

Seventy-five years ago this week, the Jewish community of Palestine (known as the yishuv) gathered i...

Fri, 12 May 2023

A few years ago, writer and cartoonist Tim Urban started becoming troubled by what he saw going on i...

Wed, 03 May 2023

Peter Thiel doesn’t shy away from taking big bets. From Facebook (he was the company’s first out...

Thu, 27 Apr 2023

Just six months ago, few outside of Silicon Valley had heard of OpenAI, the company that makes the a...

Wed, 19 Apr 2023

Jonathan Rosen has spent the last few years trying to understand the story of his closest childhood ...

Mon, 10 Apr 2023

The Exodus—the story of the Israelites’ freedom from Egyptian slavery 3,000 years ago—is the u...

Mon, 03 Apr 2023

New York City has had a rough few years. It lost nearly four percent of its population during the p...

Wed, 29 Mar 2023

People don’t usually think about Adele in the same breath as Johnny Cash. The Beastie Boys in the ...

Tue, 21 Mar 2023

The last time economist Tyler Cowen was on Honestly about a year ago, inflation was the highest it h...

Thu, 16 Mar 2023

When most people think about war, they think about senseless killing, brutality, violence and horror...

Fri, 10 Mar 2023

Honestly presents Chapter 1 of The Witch Trails of J.K. Rowling Host Megan Phelps-Roper writes a let...

Thu, 02 Mar 2023

Last month, Nikki Haley announced she is running for President. Haley is someone who has consistentl...

Wed, 22 Feb 2023

For the past two weeks, tens of thousands of people, most of them college students, poured into a sm...

Wed, 15 Feb 2023

Ozempic, the brand name drug for a medication called semaglutide, is one of the most popular drugs o...

Fri, 10 Feb 2023

For many parents, the last few years have been eye-opening, as they saw the education system in Amer...

Tue, 31 Jan 2023

Over the last decade, the internet has devolved into a playground for influencers who sell and show ...

Thu, 26 Jan 2023

Ken Burns is the most famous documentary filmmaker in America. He has made 35 films over the past 5 ...

Tue, 17 Jan 2023

The debate about immigration brings out some of the deepest anxieties and biggest disagreements in A...

Fri, 13 Jan 2023

From Biden getting on board the classified documents train to the raw milk revolutionaries who are s...

Thu, 05 Jan 2023

When my wife Nellie was pregnant last year, we became obsessed with Economist Emily Oster’s book, ...

Thu, 22 Dec 2022

David Sedaris is a humorist and author of many best selling books: Calypso, Theft By Finding, Let’...

Fri, 16 Dec 2022

Ro Khanna is a progressive congressman representing California's 17th District, the wealthiest Congr...

Fri, 09 Dec 2022

For the last month, Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been all over the internet with his conspi...

Wed, 30 Nov 2022

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a polarizing figure. For some, he's the ultimate defender of th...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022

A few months ago, I had writer Freddie deBoer on the podcast for an episode we called, “Does Glori...

Wed, 16 Nov 2022

Last week, Ukraine recaptured the city of Kherson from the Russians. It was one of the most stunning...

Wed, 09 Nov 2022

With inflation soaring, the worst crime wave in decades, and Biden’s approval rating at a pitiful ...

Thu, 03 Nov 2022

Less than a week out from election day, and more than 20 million people have already cast their vote...

Wed, 26 Oct 2022

Over the past two years, the United States has experienced the largest crime surge in decades. Aggra...

Wed, 19 Oct 2022

Let’s talk about the state of men in America: For every 100 bachelor degrees awarded to women, 74 ...

Thu, 13 Oct 2022

In a world where the personal has become political, and politics has swallowed everything, the stake...

Fri, 07 Oct 2022

Last month, a 22 year old Kurdish Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, was arrested in Tehran by the Islamic ...

Wed, 28 Sep 2022

Today’s episode is borrowed from the feed of the great podcast The Fifth Column. Usually hosted by...

Thu, 22 Sep 2022

Last year, The New York Times dropped a bombshell headline: “‘Horrible History’: Mass Grave of...

Thu, 15 Sep 2022

Fifteen years ago, there was a lot of talk about the obesity epidemic. In 2008, Michelle Obama start...

Thu, 08 Sep 2022

If there is a headline to the past half-decade, it’s this: liberal democracy is under threat acros...

Thu, 01 Sep 2022

On November 9, 2016, the day after Trump was elected president, three students from Oberlin College ...

Thu, 25 Aug 2022

Attorney General William Barr is only the second person in American history to lead the Justice Depa...

Thu, 18 Aug 2022

Larry Summers is one of the most important economists in the world. He’s been the chief economist ...

Tue, 16 Aug 2022

We live in a culture in which many people believe that words are violence. In this, they have much i...

Wed, 10 Aug 2022

Tim Scott is a rare bird: He is the only black Republican in the Senate. But the quality that makes ...

Wed, 03 Aug 2022

It’s hard to think of an invention that has been more transformative to women than the birth contr...

Wed, 27 Jul 2022

There is no organization that’s done more to fight for freedom of speech on American campuses over...

Wed, 20 Jul 2022

Denying the outcome of elections has become alarmingly popular these days. In one corner, Democrats...

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...

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...

Thu, 07 Jul 2022

There are nearly 4000 universities in the U.S.. Many of them have billions of dollars in endowments ...

Mon, 04 Jul 2022

No writer stokes more consistent envy among Common Sense editors than Walter Kirn. Two of his essays...

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...

Tue, 28 Jun 2022

Few decisions could inspire so much anger and sadness in one group of Americans—and so much joy an...

Tue, 21 Jun 2022

If you watched the Super Bowl this year, it was hard not to notice that cryptocurrency had fully arr...

Fri, 17 Jun 2022

If you read Common Sense, you know that the best day of the week is Friday, when Nellie Bowles deliv...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022

We live in a culture that is driven by nay-saying. In one corner, people insist that the individual ...

Thu, 09 Jun 2022

Tulsa. Buffalo. Uvalde. Philadelphia. Chicago. And that’s just the past few weeks. If you’re li...

Tue, 31 May 2022

When Marianne Williamson stood on the presidential debate stage in 2020 and spoke about the “dark ...

Wed, 25 May 2022

We are living through a seismic political realignment. The parties and the political movements that ...

Wed, 18 May 2022

There is no subject—not Trump, not abortion, not immigration, not taxes-–that is more contentiou...

Wed, 11 May 2022

Akhil Reed Amar is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale university, where he’...

Fri, 06 May 2022

If you read Common Sense, you know that the best day of the week is Friday, when Nellie Bowles deliv...

Tue, 03 May 2022

In 1989, Andrew Sullivan wrote “Here Comes The Groom,” an essay making the conservative case for...

Wed, 27 Apr 2022

The average American adult spends over three hours a day staring into their phone. If you’re a tee...

Fri, 22 Apr 2022

If you read Common Sense, you know that the best day of the week is Friday, when Nellie Bowles deliv...

Tue, 19 Apr 2022

If you’re confused about what is happening with the economy right now, so are we. Why is inflation...

Thu, 14 Apr 2022

The Exodus—the story of the Israelites’ freedom from Egyptian slavery 3,000 years ago—is the u...

Tue, 12 Apr 2022

Perhaps you’ve noticed that the thing we call “social media'' is deeply antisocial—the thing t...

Fri, 08 Apr 2022

If you read Common Sense, you know that the best day of the week is Friday, when Nellie Bowles deliv...

Wed, 06 Apr 2022

In 1973, Leonard Cohen announced he was done with music for good. The same year, in October, war bro...

Tue, 29 Mar 2022

David Sacks is a paradox. The entrepreneur and venture capitalist helped lay the foundations of the ...

Fri, 25 Mar 2022

Today we are republishing Bari’s appearance on Hoover Institute’s Uncommon Knowledge Podcast, ho...

Wed, 23 Mar 2022

It’s been a month since Russia invaded Ukraine. About a fourth of Ukraine’s population has been ...

Fri, 18 Mar 2022

What if I told you that all the brokenness in our society—from the increased rates in suicide and ...

Wed, 16 Mar 2022

For the past three weeks, we have watched the people of Ukraine and their president breathe life int...

Thu, 10 Mar 2022

Russia’s war against Ukraine has been raging on for almost two weeks now and Ukraine is in crisis....

Sun, 06 Mar 2022

Lia Thomas is a transgender woman who has, in one year, become the star athlete of the women’s swi...

Thu, 03 Mar 2022

Air raid sirens have been ringing out over the capital of Ukraine for the past week. Russian troops ...

Fri, 25 Feb 2022

Zoe Strimpel on the collapse of Western authority, self and geopolitical understanding— and the pr...

Tue, 22 Feb 2022

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is one of those pioneering American leaders whose story i...

Wed, 16 Feb 2022

Right now, the Winter Olympics are underway in Beijing. But for the Chinese Communist Party, the 202...

Fri, 11 Feb 2022

Eric Scmidt has been a pioneer at every chapter of the tech revolution… from the very beginnings o...

Wed, 09 Feb 2022

Ever since the end of World War II, America has been the dominant world superpower. We have been rea...

Fri, 04 Feb 2022

The Covid vaccines are medical miracles. During the pandemic they have been literal life-savers; I’...

Wed, 02 Feb 2022

It’s hard to think of an institution in American life that’s more broken than higher education. ...

Thu, 27 Jan 2022

As a boy growing up in Turkey, Abdullah Antepli thought hating Jews was normal. He read Mein Kampf b...

Fri, 21 Jan 2022

At this point in the pandemic, one group of Americans generally gets to show their faces. The other ...

Wed, 19 Jan 2022

As we approach the third year of this pandemic, it’s become painfully clear that the stringent mea...

Fri, 14 Jan 2022

Have you hit a wall with Covid? We have.  The irrationality of the current policies and conversati...

Wed, 12 Jan 2022

We are living in an era in which Americans–especially younger ones–say they are increasingly tra...

Thu, 06 Jan 2022

A year ago today, something big happened in Washington. Was it a coup? Was it an insurrection? Was i...

Thu, 30 Dec 2021

As the year ends, we want to share where this podcast began and replay our first episode. What does...

Tue, 28 Dec 2021

The abortion debate is top of mind as we enter 2022, with a pending supreme court decision that coul...

Thu, 23 Dec 2021

Over the next few days we are going to be replaying some listener favorites from the last year, sta...

Tue, 21 Dec 2021

Abigail Shrier, the author of the bestselling book “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Sed...

Thu, 16 Dec 2021

Just when we think we have Kim Kardashian pinned she adds another hyphen. She’s a reality star, un...

Fri, 10 Dec 2021

In 2019, Jussie Smollett’s hate crime allegations captured the nation. The actor and singer claime...

Fri, 03 Dec 2021

Eccentric economist and brilliant thinker Tyler Cowen answers our questions about the confusing stat...

Wed, 01 Dec 2021

Desmond Shum knows well the cost of doing business in China. Born to a humble family that was margin...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021

If your family is anything like mine, Thanksgiving is an opportunity to take a break from work, to b...

Wed, 17 Nov 2021

Here is what I thought was true about Kyle Rittenhouse in the last days of August 2020: The 17-year-...

Wed, 10 Nov 2021

First, Andrew Yang ran for President, and he could barely get mainstream media’s attention. Then, ...

Sun, 07 Nov 2021

It’s been three years since the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, the most lethal attack on Jews on...

Thu, 04 Nov 2021

"Defund the police" or "healthy at every size" or "marriage is just an oppressive institution of the...

Thu, 28 Oct 2021

If you’ve just heard of the word “TERF” (it stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) it...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021

Ross Douthat is a New York Times columnist, a father of four, an author . . . and also someone who l...

Wed, 13 Oct 2021

Last week, Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, confirmed what we already felt; that big tech...

Wed, 06 Oct 2021

The most honest thing I’ve ever read about abortion is by Caitlin Flanagan. It’s called “The D...

Wed, 29 Sep 2021

Four decades ago, Glenn C. Loury became the first tenured black professor of economics in Harvard’...

Wed, 22 Sep 2021

So much of the conversation about Covid-19 is angry and full of finger-pointing. Dr. Vinay Prasad ha...

Fri, 17 Sep 2021

It’s been a month since the fall of Afghanistan. And Black Hawk helicopters and Humvees aren’t t...

Fri, 10 Sep 2021

Peter Boghossian is the first one to tell you: he's no victim of cancel culture. The philosophy prof...

Wed, 08 Sep 2021

Abigail Shrier is a lawyer, a reporter and author of Irreversible Damage. One way to describe her ...

Wed, 01 Sep 2021

Between the catastrophic American withdrawal from Afghanistan, an endless pandemic, a broken educati...

Wed, 25 Aug 2021

In Part II, a diagnosis of the global ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party with Josh Rogin. Josh...

Mon, 23 Aug 2021

When the pandemic began eighteen months ago, anyone who dared suggest that the virus came from a lab...

Thu, 19 Aug 2021

How did this happen? How did we spend 20 years, over 2 trillion dollars and over 2,000 American live...

Wed, 11 Aug 2021

For several months, the journalist Katie Herzog has been talking to some of the country's top doctor...

Tue, 03 Aug 2021

Amy Cooper was not the internet’s first “Karen” — the pejorative used for a demanding, enti...

Thu, 29 Jul 2021

Why are men the way they are? Are they naturally more aggressive? And is it fair for transwomen to c...

Mon, 26 Jul 2021

Maud Maron is the picture of a passionate progressive. She was a Planned Parenthood escort; a resear...

Tue, 20 Jul 2021

One year after her resignation from the New York Times, Bari sits down with author (and America's mo...

Tue, 13 Jul 2021

All of a sudden, the phrase "Critical Race Theory" seems like it's everywhere. If you are confused b...

Wed, 07 Jul 2021

A recent study from the American Medical Association found that one-third of men between the ages of...

Thu, 01 Jul 2021

For 14 years, Winston Marshall was the banjo player and lead guitarist of the massively successful b...

Sun, 27 Jun 2021

For 26 years, the swash-buckling, pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily was a thorn in the side of the C...

Wed, 16 Jun 2021

Why does every institution feel so broken? Why would newspapers sacrifice their credibility to suppr...

Mon, 14 Jun 2021

The billionaire entrepreneur on the ProPublica tax report, capitalism, corporate cowardice, the Chin...

Wed, 09 Jun 2021

What the public shaming of Palestinian immigrant Majdi Wadi — and the boycott of his Minneapolis b...

Fri, 04 Jun 2021

The most interesting conversations in American life now happen in private. This show is bringing the...