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  1. 10 HR AGO ·  BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Elise Stefanik on the ‘Rotten’ Ivy League, Mayor Mamdani, and Why She’s Leaving Congress

    Two years ago, in the wake of burgeoning antisemitism after Hamas’s October 7 attacks, Elise Stefanik sat across from the presidents of Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania and asked them a simple question: Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your university’s code of conduct? Their non-answers…

    43 min

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    What Does the Government Actually Know About UFOs?

    Over the next four weeks, I’m hosting a video series called What Should Smart People Think About UFOs? As the conversation around UFOs has moved from the fringes of conspiracy culture into serious discussion, including at the highest levels of government, I want to speak with experts who have devoted real attention to the subject, to make sense of what …

    1hr 5min

  3. 9 APR ·  BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Niall Ferguson: Why Iran Thinks It’s Winning

    Late last night, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire. But the first day has already proven rocky: Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Israel all reported missile and drone attacks from Iran; Israel carried out major air strikes against Hezbollah, raising questions about whether Lebanon is included in the ceasefire; and Ira…

    36 min

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    Trump Says We’re ‘Winning’ in Iran. It’s More Complicated.

    On Wednesday night, President Trump delivered a 19-minute address on Iran. As expected, he stressed his accomplishments: “In these past four weeks, our armed forces have delivered swift, decisive, overwhelming victories on the battlefield. . . . Iran’s navy is gone. Their air force is in ruins. Their leaders, most of them. . . are now dead.” And he issu…

    52 min

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    Confessions of a Former Scientologist

    Most people have heard of Scientology, but have a limited understanding of what it really is. To many, it just seems wacky–associated with Tom Cruise jumping on a couch, and science fiction books staged as religious texts. But in preparing for my conversation with Claire Headley, who was born into Scientology and rose to a high-ranking position under leader David Miscavige, I was shocked by the depths of the abuses she endured. Under the control of the “church,” Claire was separated from her parents, subjected to brutal work conditions, indoctrinated into total obedience, and even, horrifically, forced to have an abortion. In Confessions, I sit down with people who have changed their minds to understand what it takes to confront closely held beliefs and pursue true ideological honesty. It’s hard to fathom the courage Claire needed to decide that everything she had known since birth was wrong, and to escape the church with her husband over two decades ago. We discuss her journey to leaving Scientology, how even as a child she sensed that something was wrong, why she decided to sign a billion-year contract with the elite Sea Organization religious order at age 16, and the disturbing patterns of abuse she witnessed at the highest levels of the church that eventually helped her change her mind. We also talk about why––even as people learn the cruel nature of Scientology––it’s remained largely unscathed in the court of law and accepted by Hollywood elites. Though Scientology continues to harass her family, Claire finally feels free—and she has an urgent message for anyone still trapped inside organizations that brainwash, abuse, and surveil.

    1hr 47min

  6. 31 MAR ·  BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    He Founded Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Now He Wants to Destroy It.

    This week, I sat down with one of the founders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Mohsen Sazegara has witnessed nearly every phase of the modern-day Iranian regime—from the inside. In 1978, at the age of just 23, he was one of Ruhollah Khomeini’s closest aides and advisers, helping plan the final stages of the Iranian Revolution from Khomeini’s commune in Paris. He was then aboard the historic flight that brought Khomeini back to power in Iran after 15 years in exile. After the revolution, Sazegara helped establish the IRGC and held a number of positions in the new government. Then things began to unravel. He was first arrested in 1984 after being falsely accused of involvement in a bombing at the prime minister’s office. Sazegara was held for just 24 hours, during which he heard a guard shout, “Take her to be lashed,” as a young woman in the prison began to cry. The experience shocked him. He raised his concerns with Khomeini, but they fell on deaf ears. It all led Sazegara to revisit the writings of the revolution’s founders and become disillusioned with their ideas. Then his life transformed. He left the government, tried to run for president (but was barred), called for a constitutional referendum, spoke at more than 50 universities in Iran, staged sit-ins, and published critiques of the regime in newspapers and magazines—all in an effort to reform the system. For speaking out, he was thrown in prison multiple times. After his release, Sazegara went into exile—and later advised Iranian activists on how to respond to the Revolutionary Guard during the 2009 Green Movement. Few people have had such an intimate view of a regime that continues to fascinate and horrify the world. And few people have had such a dramatic and consequential change of heart. Today, I ask Sazegara: When did he first feel disillusioned with the revolution he helped bring to life? Why did he decide to speak out against the regime? Why did the 1979 Iranian Revolution fail to deliver on its promises of freedom and democracy? Does he regret his role in building the IRGC? And, as the current war in Iran rages on, what would it take to bring down the regime?

    1hr 42min

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    Konstantin Kisin: The Iran War, Europe’s Decline, and the Future of the West

    Mass migration. Net-zero carbon goals. Expansive welfare states. Identity politics. Limited defense spending. Throughout the 2010s, all these policies became causes du jour across the European continent. It was an intellectual mood captured by three famous words from former German chancellor Angela Merkel: wir shaffen das roughly meaning “we can handle…

    47 min

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    Dennis Prager: The Battle Over Good and Evil

    For 50 years, Dennis Prager, one of the most important and influential conservative thinkers of the 21st century, has made a single core argument: Without God, there is no good and evil—only opinion. He advanced it on the radio, in five volumes of biblical commentary, in more than a dozen books on religion, morality, and the foundations of Western civil…

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Free Press interviews always offer something different. We speak to the people who see changes coming. We speak to the people whose stories help us understand society. We speak to the people who are shaping America and the world. These are conversations you wonߴt find anywhere else, delivered with a dose of common sense. Only at The Free Press.

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