It’s Friday, September 25.
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Andreessen Horowitz launches a new university for the AI age.
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It’s been fascinating, and more than a little heartwarming, to see so many viewers tuning into the latest season of Fauda, the Israeli show about a counterterrorism unit that operates undercover in the West Bank and Gaza.
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Until recently, Fauda was just a well-produced Netflix series—one of many.
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Fauda → produce → many
Then, October 7, 2023, happened.
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To say the least, many people across the globe have been quick to dismiss or distort what took place that day and why Israel has responded the way it did.
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It’s a make-believe story, but it’s also based on real life, and it hews closely to the facts.
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it → ’ → facts
And it does a better job, a more powerful job, of conveying the feeling of that day than any news report or footage or podcast I’ve encountered (and I’ve spent the better part of the past three years consuming a lot of October 7–related coverage).
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I recently reached out to Avi Issacharoff, one of Fauda’s co-creators, and Omri Givon, the director, to find out why they think the show has gained such a wide following—not only in Israel but worldwide, including many Arab countries.
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show → reach → countries
Read my piece to understand why the series may do more than almost anything in recent years to shift public opinion on Israel.
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Fauda also captures something striking about Israel—particularly Israeli Arabs.
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Fauda → capture → Israel
When Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar planned the October 7 attacks, he assumed that some (many?) of the country’s two million Arabs would join the fight.
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some → plan → fight
They didn’t—as is depicted in the show.
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“And why would they?” writes Seth Mandel today.
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It’s a reminder, he observes, “that Israel’s democratic character and its national culture are far healthier than you would ever imagine from watching or reading Western news.”
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So We’re Building a New Kind of School.
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If you ask 10 people how artificial intelligence will affect education, you’ll probably get 10 different answers.
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you → ask → answers
It’s one of the most important questions of our era—and one for which there is absolutely no consensus.
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Which is why, here at The Free Press, we’ve covered it from many different angles: from the school integrating technology into every step of the learning process to the high school English teacher who banned AI in her classroom altogether.
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But has AI’s breakneck pace outrun education altogether?
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pace → outrun → education
Do tech-minded students even need school—particularly higher education—at all?
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students → need → school
If you ask tech titans like Peter Thiel or Alex Karp, you’ll get an answer that’s pretty close to “no.”
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Indeed, they’re already founding alternatives to college.
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That’s why it caught our eye this week when Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced that, rather than encouraging students to drop out of college, it is starting a new one.
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We wanted to know more.
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So we asked Erik Torenberg, one of the school’s co-founders, to explain why he’s betting big on a university built for the AI age—and the change he hopes it will bring.
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The Free Press Guide to Cuffing Season
Fall has arrived, and with it, cuffing season: a term recently added to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary (definition: “a time of the year when people who are not married or in a relationship begin looking for a short-term romantic partner to spend the colder months of the year with”).
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Today we bring you stories about how to fall in love—and find a partner who will stick around even after warmer weather returns.
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weather → bring → partner
First, where should you find love?
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New data from the Institute for Family Studies reveals that increasingly, the top places to start a relationship are cities where marriage and family values are a part of the social fabric.
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Freya India unpacks the shifting attitudes driving this change and asks: “What if there’s nothing wrong with who you are, but something wrong with where you are?”
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you → unpack → change
Next up, women are earning more money now than at any time in history.
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women → earn → history
But this becomes a recipe for disaster when high-earning women seek even-higher-earning men—a common practice known as “marrying up.”
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women → become → men
Aleeza Ben Shalom, also known as the Jewish Matchmaker, has set up hundreds of marriages, and today she explains why women must embrace a new definition of “up”: men who don’t have high paychecks but rather a strong character, discipline, and emotional intelligence.
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Those virtues don’t show up on a W-2, she writes, but they are much better predictors of lasting relationships.
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they → show → relationships
Finally, TikTok’s “Queen of Confidence” Serena Kerrigan went on more than 50 virtual dates to figure out what’s wrong with modern courtship—then wrote a book about it.
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what → go → it
On the latest episode of Second Thought, she joins Suzy Weiss and Dan Ahdoot to talk about what she found and why she believes four dozen first dates led her to crack the code on love.
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dates → join → love
The midterm elections are fewer than 40 days away, and a hotly contested Senate race in Michigan could decide control of the chamber.
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But something striking is happening in the state: Some hardcore Democrats are considering voting red for the first time ever.
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It’s not because they love the GOP candidate, Mike Rogers; it’s because of how his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, responded to a terrorist attack six months ago on their synagogue, Temple Israel.
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…and 13 more, not listed.
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