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  • Is Anger a Virtue?

    Is Anger a Virtue?
    2026/11/09
    Mike LeBlanc is a former Marine and entrepreneur whose company builds humanoid robots. His new book, What If Anger Is the Answer?, argues that anger is the forgotten virtue we’ve been missing. He joins Coleman Hughes to make the case for getting angry, drawing on the Greek philosophy he studied at St. John’s College and eight years in the Marine Corps, including two combat tours in Afghanistan. That experience also shapes his view of war: It’s hell; it should be a last resort, but if we’re going to do it, we better do it right. He also brings the argument closer to home, with his take on what gentle parenting gets wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 9 分
  • Mark Manson: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help

    Mark Manson: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
    2026/11/02
    Mark Manson is the author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and a former dating coach whose argument cuts against most of the self-help genre: Happiness is the wrong thing to chase. In conversation with Coleman Hughes, he explains why people should aim for purpose and meaning instead, and why he thinks affirmations and manifesting tend to most benefit those who already feel good about themselves. They get into Søren Kierkegaard, how pickup artistry gave way to the manosphere, and when to bring up politics on a first date. Manson also talks about the two-and-a-half years he spent helping Will Smith write his memoir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 21 分
  • Saritha Komatireddy on New York’s Homelessness Crisis, Public Safety, and Free Speech

    Saritha Komatireddy on New York’s Homelessness Crisis, Public Safety, and Free Speech
    2026/10/29
    Saritha Komatireddy is the Republican challenger seeking to unseat Democratic incumbent Letitia James as New York Attorney General. She is the Brooklyn-born daughter of Indian immigrants, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, a former federal prosecutor, and the former chief of staff at the Drug Enforcement Administration. Komatireddy’s campaign has gained unexpected momentum following her viral debate performance, where she pressed AG James hard on public safety, violent crime against women, rising homelessness, rampant and unprosecuted fraud, and selective enforcement of civil rights law. Certain of their exchanges—including one where James visibly struggled to name a single past attorney general she admired—reached millions of views online. As New York and the country prepare for elections next week in which Democrats are expected to win big, Saritha makes her case for your vote. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    34 分
  • Konstantin Kisin: France’s Chaos Is Coming for Britain

    Konstantin Kisin: France’s Chaos Is Coming for Britain
    2026/10/23
    France is burning, and Konstantin Kisin thinks the violence roiling the country is just the tip of the iceberg. Kisin, co-host of the Triggernometry podcast and author of An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West, argues the current unrest is the predictable outcome of decades of mass immigration, without any systemic process for integration. Leaders’ dogged embrace of multiculturalism—even as their own citizens increasingly questioned it—ultimately cost the nation its shared identity, the very thing that holds a society together. And when tensions spill over into neighboring countries, as they inevitably will, it may well prove the continent’s undoing. Kisin also shares his thoughts on the chaos wrought by Europe’s welfare system, the folly of its climate policy, and the eventual outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine. This episode featured audience questions from The Free Press Forum, a platform for subscribers to connect with other Free Pressers. Head to TheFP.com/Forum to join the conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間
  • Do Great Men Actually Matter? With Jared Diamond

    Do Great Men Actually Matter? With Jared Diamond
    2026/10/19
    Did any single man change the course of the 20th century? Jared Diamond, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, says the biographies can’t answer that, but the data can. He walks us through Winston Churchill’s dayslong fight to keep Britain in the war, Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore, John F. Kennedy’s brinkmanship in Cuba, and Joseph Stalin’s response to Adolf Hitler’s invasion. Then he explains why basketball coaches are the best laboratory we have for measuring what a leader really changes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    45 分
  • Inside Israel’s War Room: What Really Happened After October 7

    Inside Israel’s War Room: What Really Happened After October 7
    2026/10/05
    Elliot Kaufman’s new book, In the War Room, is an inside account of how Israel actually fought the war that followed October 7, 2023. A Wall Street Journal editorial writer, Kaufman spent the last two years reporting on the conflict and drew on documents recovered from Hamas, along with behind-the-scenes access to Israel’s top political, military, and intelligence leaders, to reconstruct decisions most of the public never saw. Kaufman explains why Hamas sincerely believed it could destroy Israel, why Hezbollah never launched the full-scale invasion Israel feared most, and why the bitter, often personal rivalry between Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, and Benny Gantz shaped nearly every major decision of the war. He also walks through what he considers Israel’s biggest unforced error—the two-month aid stoppage that fueled a global famine narrative—and how the war ultimately reshaped Hezbollah, Iran’s nuclear program, and the future of the Abraham Accords. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 44 分
  • The Real Reason the Black Family Fell Apart

    The Real Reason the Black Family Fell Apart
    2026/09/28
    Delano Squires spent 15 years working in D.C. government, including a stint in the city’s office of gun violence prevention, where he noticed the same story on repeat: Young black men were both victims and perpetrators of some of the worst crimes in the city. In his new book, The Vanishing Black Family, he argues that family structure, not policing, incarceration, or education policy, is the most consequential and least discussed driver of racial inequality in America today. Squires makes the case that slavery deformed the black family but didn’t destroy it, and that the real collapse came later, driven by the expansion of the welfare state and the rise of second-wave feminism. He joins Coleman Hughes to talk through the data, the history, and why he thinks black institutions, from churches to civil rights organizations, have avoided the issue entirely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 2 分