Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the past few decades, the Democratic Party has undergone a seismic shift. Kitchen table issues li...
David Sedaris: Punching Down
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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.
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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?
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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.
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we tumble toward 2024, anxiety among Democrats is beginning to simmer. It’s easy to understand ...
Replay: Why Leonard Cohen Ran Toward War
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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?
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vivek Ramaswamy, at 37 years old, is the first ever millennial Republican presidential candidate. He...
Are We In A Pre-War Era?
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, Walter Russell Mead wrote an outstanding article in Tablet titled “You Are Not Destined ...
Rethinking Higher Ed with Harvard’s Former President
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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'?
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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.
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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.
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier today, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott entered the race for President. That makes him the s...
Israel at 75: Miracles and Madness
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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.
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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?
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Rosen has spent the last few years trying to understand the story of his closest childhood ...
Our Favorite Passover Conversation
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Exodus—the story of the Israelites’ freedom from Egyptian slavery 3,000 years ago—is the u...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The last time economist Tyler Cowen was on Honestly about a year ago, inflation was the highest it h...
Why Men Seek Danger
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When most people think about war, they think about senseless killing, brutality, violence and horror...
Honestly Presents: The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For many parents, the last few years have been eye-opening, as they saw the education system in Amer...
A Golden Age of Gurus
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The debate about immigration brings out some of the deepest anxieties and biggest disagreements in A...
Raw & Unclassified: A Friday Roundtable
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Biden getting on board the classified documents train to the raw milk revolutionaries who are s...
Bad Moms with Emily Oster
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When my wife Nellie was pregnant last year, we became obsessed with Economist Emily Oster’s book, ...
A Holiday Treat with David Sedaris!
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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.
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a polarizing figure. For some, he's the ultimate defender of th...
A Better Way to Disagree
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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.
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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.
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past two years, the United States has experienced the largest crime surge in decades. Aggra...
Why We Must Save Our Boys
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s talk about the state of men in America: For every 100 bachelor degrees awarded to women, 74 ...
How to Change Your Mind
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where the personal has become political, and politics has swallowed everything, the stake...
The Iranian Regime's Most Wanted Woman
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, a 22 year old Kurdish Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, was arrested in Tehran by the Islamic ...
From Racial Reckoning to Race Abolition
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode is borrowed from the feed of the great podcast The Fifth Column. Usually hosted by...
The Great Canadian Mass Graves Hoax
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, The New York Times dropped a bombshell headline: “‘Horrible History’: Mass Grave of...
Eating Ourselves to Death
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fifteen years ago, there was a lot of talk about the obesity epidemic. In 2008, Michelle Obama start...
Has Freedom Failed Us? A Debate
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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.
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On November 9, 2016, the day after Trump was elected president, three students from Oberlin College ...
Bill Barr Calls Bullsh*t
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Larry Summers is one of the most important economists in the world. He’s been the chief economist ...
We Ignored Salman Rushdie’s Warning
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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!
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s hard to think of an invention that has been more transformative to women than the birth contr...
The Eternally Radical Idea
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is no organization that’s done more to fight for freedom of speech on American campuses over...
Election Denial: A Roundtable
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Denying the outcome of elections has become alarmingly popular these days. In one corner, Democrats...
The Infamous Andrew Schulz
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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?
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are nearly 4000 universities in the U.S.. Many of them have billions of dollars in endowments ...
The Holy Anarchy of Fun
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
No writer stokes more consistent envy among Common Sense editors than Walter Kirn. Two of his essays...
Power and Politics with Mike Pompeo
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Few decisions could inspire so much anger and sadness in one group of Americans—and so much joy an...
Is Crypto Over? A Debate!
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a culture that is driven by nay-saying. In one corner, people insist that the individual ...
What To Do About Guns
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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’
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Marianne Williamson stood on the presidential debate stage in 2020 and spoke about the “dark ...
The Battle for the American Right
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1989, Andrew Sullivan wrote “Here Comes The Groom,” an essay making the conservative case for...
Your Attention Didn't Collapse. It Was Stolen.
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1973, Leonard Cohen announced he was done with music for good. The same year, in October, war bro...