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Tyler Cowen: The Case for Living Online

22 hours ago | thefp.com | Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen: The Case for Living OnlineAdmonishments against the online world miss why it is profoundly human: Without the internet, I would not know most of the people I learn from the most. How much should we be online? Is it crazy to spend the majority of your day in chat groups, answering emails, and scrolling X? Is posing 20 to 30 queries a day to the AIs consistent with having meaningful respect for actual flesh-and-blood human beings? I say yes. Perhaps you balk at that answer.
This Is the Lecture That the Naval Academy Didn’t Want Me to Give

1 day ago | thefp.com | Ryan Holiday

This Is the Lecture That the Naval Academy Didn’t Want Me to GiveWe have gotten to a place where even a basic defense of intellectual freedom is now considered ‘too political’ for a government institution. I was supposed to give a talk at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland on April 14. I found out about 20 minutes before I was due to go onstage that it wasn’t going to happen. The lecture was about wisdom and how to cultivate it.
Trump Tore Up Obama’s Iran Deal. Is He Now Negotiating Something Worse?

1 day ago | thefp.com | Michael Doran

Trump Tore Up Obama’s Iran Deal. Is He Now Negotiating Something Worse? In 2018, Trump called the Iran deal one of the most ‘one-sided’ agreements in U.S. history. So why is his administration signing something even softer on Tehran? “The Iran Deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into,” President Donald Trump declared in 2018 as he withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
Will Trump’s Tariffs Destroy Populism Overseas?

2 days ago | thefp.com | Matthew Continetti

No one has done more than Donald Trump to define nationalist populism, the global movement to control borders and reassert traditional values. Yet his trade policies may wind up killing the movement overseas. Consider the recent travels of Vice President J.D. Vance. On Monday, he met with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. Among the topics they discussed: a potential agreement that could stop President Trump’s 27 percent reciprocal tariff on Indian imports from taking effect.
Our Elites Don’t Deserve This Much Hatred

2 days ago | thefp.com | Tyler Cowen

How did we get to a place where there is extreme mistrust in the supposed elites? It is no surprise that we are especially skeptical of elites these days. The Great Financial Crisis did not exactly go well, and the Covid pandemic was only slightly more than five years ago. Plenty of mistakes were made in both, even if parties do not always agree in which direction. Or consider the election of Donald Trump. If you like Trump, his rise is a sign of how far wrong things have gone.
The Passion of Pope Francis

3 days ago | thefp.com | Francis X. Rocca

My finest memory of Pope Francis is from January 2015, when I watched him celebrate Mass in Tacloban, in the eastern Philippines. Wearing a disposable rain poncho over his vestments, as the winds of a tropical storm battered the outdoor altar, he preached to survivors of the 2013 Typhoon Yolanda. The congregation listened, many of them in tears, as Francis commiserated with them over their loss of homes and loved ones.
One Easter Night in Europe

4 days ago | thefp.com | Rod Dreher

Things Worth Remembering: One Easter Night in EuropeYes, God is everywhere—no farther from us in a Walmart than He is in Vienna’s Stephansdom. But we are creatures of flesh, and a little grandeur helps us sense the divine presence. Welcome to Things Worth Remembering, in which writers recall wisdom from the past that we should commit to heart. Last week, Benjamin Carlson revealed the central, chilling lesson of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece, Demons.
Wealth Is Wasted on Melinda Gates

5 days ago | thefp.com | Suzy Lee Weiss

Good morning, culture vultures! This week, I wrote about Jeff Bezos’s hot fiancée going to space in a tight suit, and it made me wonder what his ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, was thinking. Then I saw that another billionaire’s ex-wife had a book out. Today, I bring you a review of Melinda Gates’s memoir, and of a medical drama I think you’ll love. Before we get into all that—and more!—I need your help. We need a name for this column. Weissland? The Take? The Weekly Free Press Culture Department Report?
The Patron Saint of Lost Americans

5 days ago | thefp.com | Paul Kingsnorth

I have never met anyone quite like Paul Kingsnorth. He used to be the kind of radical environmentalist who chained himself to bridges. He’s been an atheist, a Zen Buddhist, and a Wiccan. He spent his first few decades of life searching, as so many of us do, for something deeper. Call it “the meaning of life.” Then, a few years ago, Paul found it—in the Romanian Orthodox Church.
Gazans Confront Hamas Amid Historic Uprising

5 days ago | thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova

“The scum have arrived in Beit Lahia,” says the man behind the camera as he zooms in on the crowd of demonstrators. Thousands had poured into the streets of northern Gaza on Wednesday to protest Hamas’s rule—the latest outburst in a historic wave of demonstrations that engulfed the Strip last month.