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Peter Savodnik: Want to Read a Great Book with Us?
If back-to-school season has you nostalgic for the days when you could dive into great literature without any…
What College Is Really For
As students settle into campus this week, unpacking in dorms, meeting new roommates, and stepping into the familiar…
Douglas Murray: The Death Penalty Is Cruel. Hamas Terrorists Deserve It.
The death penalty is an issue that should be discussed with awe. More than perhaps any other subject…
This Week in Canada: Why the ‘Very Good’ Trade Deal Went Bad
Welcome back to This Week in Canada, where the weekend collapse of trade talks with the U.S. leaves…
Child Labor Violations Are On The Rise. Some States Are Making It Worse.
By Veronica GoodmanThis summer, a 17-year-old employee at Frontier Town Adventure Park on Maryland’s Eastern Shore was airlifted…
Confessions of a Former Social Justice Warrior
For the better part of a decade, a new moral and political framework swept through American life. Its…
Words & Phrases
Whenever a Democrat occupies the White House, Republicans holler about federal debt, lamenting that the economic crisis is…
AI’s Crisis of Trust. Plus. . .
It’s Tuesday, August 25. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free…
Inside America’s Fight for Drone Dominance
The U.S. military needs more drones, and it needs to build them without Chinese parts. Today, Defense Innovation…
The Last Roller Coaster in Silicon Valley
Let me tell you a small story that makes me sad, which is part of a big story…
Ballroom Dancing
Michael de Adder is an award-winning editorial cartoonist. You can find him on Substack here.The Contrarian is community-supported.…
Norm and Karen Attiah on Victory in Wrongful Termination Case Against ‘The Washington Post’
In a huge win for the First Amendment and Contrarians everywhere, an independent arbitrator ruled today that The…
Trump’s D.C. Car Race Is the Best of Populism
History records that in the year 67, the Roman emperor Nero participated in a chariot race at the…
Why No One Trusts Data Centers and Flock Cameras
So much of what we do at The Free Press is try to make sense of a world…
Tyler Cowen: The Least Bad Way to Regulate AI
For how much longer will the fate of American artificial intelligence be steered from Silicon Valley rather than…