# Read Ross Douthat, Douglas Murray, and More for 20 Percent Off Canonical: https://brew.new/templates/substack/read-ross-douthat-douglas-murray-and-more-for-20-percent-off Brand: substack.com Category: welcome ![Preview of Read Ross Douthat, Douglas Murray, and More for 20 Percent Off](https://cdn.brew.new/email-preview-7fac17616a29e66e-tracking_r57tn4kn2vv2h1nr0dw1bdmsxh8gmpdq-1792513309587.png) ## Email content Forwarded this email? Subscribe for more Tuesday, 10.20.2026 Read Ross Douthat, Douglas Murray, and More for 20 Percent Off The writers who help us make sense of a world in upheaval are all in one place. Subscribe now to read them all, at 20 percent off for a limited time. By The Editors Paris burns. Midterms loom. All while machine gods remake our world. To say that ours is a time of profound upheaval would be an understatement. We feel these upheavals in our work and our lives. The sense that the axis on which we understood the world is itself shifting. That the old order has ended, and we are living through the birth pangs of a new era. One where the phrase “political realignment” feels quaint. Where cars fly and humans vie for immortality. Since day one, our work has been animated by a simple goal: to make sense of the world as it actually is. To see things clearly, and report on them honestly. Five years later, that task has never felt more urgent. How do you know what’s true in a world as confounding as ours? The answer starts with authoritative voices we trust. To name just a few of them: Ross Douthat. Abigail Shrier. Douglas Murray. Niall Ferguson. Coleman Hughes. Caitlin Flanagan. Nellie Bowles. Arthur Brooks. Kat Rosenfield. Tyler Cowen. These are the people who, despite the cultural upheaval of our time, see the world clearly. They also happen to embody the values that drive everything we do at The Free Press: Curiosity. Courage. Independence. Doggedness. Honesty. Those are the ingredients of great journalism, and they are what make our contributors’ work essential. You can read more about each of them below. For now, to celebrate the arrival of Ross and our incredible stable of writers and sensemakers: We’re offering 20 percent off paid subscriptions for a limited time. Subscribe Here’s who you’ll be reading. We’re thrilled to welcome our newest columnist. For more than 15 years, Ross Douthat was one of the most-read opinion writers at The New York Times. He’s now a correspondent for 60 Minutes, and every Thursday he’ll bring his writing to The Free Press. His first column, “How to Survive the Robot Apocalypse,” is live now and available only for paid subscribers. We welcomed Douglas Murray back to The Free Press this summer. One of our earliest contributors and the original voice behind our Things Worth Remembering column, he’s since taken on the conspiracy theories that swirled for months around Charlie Kirk’s assassination, whether the West can wake up after a decade of sleepwalking into mass migration, and how lies about 9/11 have gone mainstream. At a moment when so many people are retreating into conspiracy, Douglas helps us make sense of the fights that will decide the future of the West. Caitlin Flanagan joined our team in the spring, after years at The Atlantic, and her first column landed days after the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Having grown up in the era of assassinations, she wrote about why the news barely made her look up, and what that says about the return of political violence. Since then, she’s written about culture, sex, and the lives of women with a candor few writers can match. She’s asked why women are rallying behind Lindsay Clancy and argued that in their compassion for a mother in crisis, they’ve lost sight of the children she killed. And she explained why the fury over Sydney Sweeney’s nude betting ad isn’t really about the ad. At the beginning of this year, Arthur Brooks launched his column The Pursuit of Happiness, in which he offers practical tools for living a more joyful, meaningful life. He’s shown how caring for aging parents can become a source of joy, and why parents of college students (and their kids) will be happier if they quit the Facebook parents’ group. He’s made the case for writing your own words, even when AI can do it for you. And he’s penned an impassioned takedown of the “looksmaxxing” trend. In a world built to make us anxious, distracted, and alone, Arthur’s column is a weekly reminder that a better life is within reach. Don’t miss his column every Monday morning. Abigail Shrier has been writing for The Free Press since 2021, but almost a year ago, she became our advice columnist, launching Tough Love. Every week, readers bring her problems they can’t talk through with anyone else. She’s told a mom whose son was being bullied at preschool that “if you act like prey, you’ll be treated as such,” and a husband desperate for his wife to forgive his affair to stop making it about himself. And when a mom couldn’t decide whether to have a third kid, Abigail made the case for a bigger family. Abigail’s advice may not always be what readers want to hear, but she takes them seriously enough to tell them the truth. Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s leading historians, the author of 16 books, and since 2024, a columnist at The Free Press. He brings the long view of history to the biggest stories of the moment. Since the war with Iran began in February, he’s been one of the clearest voices on where it’s headed, from analyses on why wars last longer than anyone expects to reflections on the almost-deals that kept falling through. And in one of our most talked-about essays of the year, he declared the death of history, arguing that the facts and footnotes that once defeated Holocaust deniers are no match for AI-powered bots that turn hate into viral spectacle. It set off a fierce debate online—one we continued in our pages with Victor Davis Hanson, Ben Shapiro, Bernard-Henri Lévy, and more. A longtime Free Press contributor, Coleman Hughes became one of our regular columnists last year and brought his podcast, Conversations with Coleman, with him. He’s one of the most clear-eyed writers on race and politics in America, and he takes on hard questions carefully and fairly. When Nikole-Hannah Jones admitted that sending her daughter to a failing Brooklyn school had backfired, Coleman didn’t gloat. Instead, he drew out the lessons for progressives and conservatives alike. After Cambridge professor Jason Arday took his own life following revelations that he had plagiarized his work, Coleman asked why so many people wanted to believe his story, and what that says about the narratives our institutions reward. Kat Rosenfield joined The Free Press as our culture critic two years ago, and since then, she’s been one of our most incisive and fearless voices on the movies, books, and viral controversies everyone’s talking about. When the Cornell 7 scandal exploded, she pointed out that the accused had not been proven guilty, even as the court of public opinion had already convicted them. And in reviewing Lena Dunham’s memoir, she explained why sickness isn’t romantic, and how a generation of very online women came to treat illness as an identity. Few people have a better view of the AI revolution than economist and Free Press columnist Tyler Cowen. And he’s more optimistic than most. After rogue AI agents hacked the platform Hugging Face, he argued that warnings of an imminent AI takeover are an overreaction, and that the real costs, while large, are manageable. And while many fear AI will make us stupid, he made the case that it could spark a renaissance of human intellect if we choose to use it that way. Whether you agree with him or not, Tyler will always make you think harder about the future. And finally, there’s TGIF. Every Friday, Free Press co-founder Nellie Bowles rounds up the week’s news in our most popular newsletter. Sometimes the only sane way to take in the news is to laugh at it, and no one makes that easier than Nellie. And those are just our columnists. 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