Marc Andreessen on AI, Tech, Censorship, and Dining with Trump
Democrats once seemed to have a monopoly on Silicon Valley. Perhaps you remember when Elon Musk bought Twitter and posted pictures of cabinets at the old office filled with “#StayWoke” T-shirts. But ...
10 Dec 20241h 43min
What We Can Learn from the Ancient Stoics
In the 2010s, Ryan Holiday was the head of marketing for the controversial clothing brand American Apparel, and the sought-after media strategist for people like the womanizing blogger Tucker Max. The...
5 Dec 202455min
From Aleppo to Tehran: A Middle East on Edge
This week marked a dramatic escalation in Syria’s 13-year civil war. Rebel factions launched their most audacious offensive in years, capturing Aleppo, the focal point of the war for over a decade. Th...
3 Dec 20241h 13min
Love, Death and Gratitude: Seven Stories
As you’re recovering from indulging in stuffing and pecan pie, we wanted to bring you a special bonus episode we put together in collaboration with our friends at StoryCorps. If you haven’t heard of ...
30 Nov 202432min
The Making of America’s Most Famous Cheerleaders
Happy Thanksgiving, Honestly listeners! If you’re anything like the rest of America, you’ll be spending the day with family, cooking turkey, eating sweet potatoes, and. . . watching football. Whether...
28 Nov 202453min
How to Save America with Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan does what we try to do every day at The Free Press: tell the truth, make sense of things plainly and without pretension, frame the news in a way that helps the reader make sense of things...
26 Nov 20241h
Where Do Democrats Go from Here?
Throughout the election, we heard one warning, repeated ad infinitum: A Donald Trump victory would precipitate a fascist dictatorship, and the United States would soon resemble Nazi Germany. But Dem...
21 Nov 202457min
Where Will Trump 2.0 Take the GOP?
Trump’s gains among working-class voters of all races—according to exit polls, he won the majority of Latino men at 55 percent—represent the ongoing realignment of the Republican Party. What was once ...
19 Nov 20241h 10min
