Today's Edition, 6 September 2021

The theatre of terror

Is there something pornographic about our reluctance to look away?

Simon Cottee
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Spotted
09:48

Denmark overtakes Sweden as the restriction-free Nordic nation

The government no longer considers Covid-19 a critical threat to society

| 4 September

The dying art of the hatchet job

Film critics have never been so weak or timid

Film critics have never been so weak or timid

Dorian Lynskey
Washington was gripped by fear

We wrongly characterise the post-9/11 years as a period of triumphalism

We wrongly characterise the post-9/11 years as a period of triumphalism

Justin Webb
Why woke capitalism works

Josiah Wedgwood's life shows the value of mixing business with morality

Josiah Wedgwood's life shows the value of mixing business with morality

Tomiwa Owolade
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Spotted
09:48

Denmark overtakes Sweden as the restriction-free Nordic nation

The government no longer considers Covid-19 a critical threat to society

| 4 September

Texas has betrayed women

The abortion bill is a humiliating act of misogyny

Jill Filipovic
When Labour believed in Brexit

Forty years ago, Left-wing MPs travelled to Brussels to negotiate an exit

Richard Johnson
The crypto revolution is failing

It was supposed to destroy the financial elite — but has only made them stronger

Greg Barker
Sally Rooney needs to be famous

She has become a prisoner of her own perspective

Sarah Ditum
Why I gave up on Extinction Rebellion

Performative anti-capitalism won't change anything

Poppy Coburn
Trans activism has mummy issues

A new primer on gender identity draws on second-wave feminism

Mary Harrington
The crypto revolution is failing

It was supposed to destroy the financial elite — but has only made them stronger

Greg Barker

It was supposed to destroy the financial elite — but has only made them stronger

Greg Barker
How France fell for QAnon

The land of Descartes fizzes with conspiracy theories

John Lichfield
How not to talk to a science denier

A Harvard professor's new book is filled with sneering conceit

Tom Chivers

Interviews.

we sit down with original thinkers and talk ideas

Richard H. Thaler: on vaccines, ‘nudge’ isn’t enough

Freddie Sayers challenges the Nobel prize winner and 'Nudge' inventor on the impact of his method

Prof. Jay Bhattacharya: I stand by the Great Barrington Declaration

The Stanford professor offers his reflections on the pandemic

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: on refugees we must learn from 2015

The discussion about numbers of Afghan refugees is eerily reminiscent of 2015

Clarissa Ward in Kabul: what the Taliban are really like

CNN's international correspondent talks exclusively to UnHerd from Afghanistan

David Shor: College liberals have hijacked the Democratic party

Freddie Sayers spoke to the political strategist about the failings of the Left


Explainer
15:47

The right way to look at the Bangladesh mask study

The evidence isn't conclusive, but then again it rarely is

| 3 September
Reaction
11:51

The ACLU turns against free speech

The once-vital group is being captured from within by hyper-partisan activists

| 3 September
Dispatch
10:24

Can Macron save Marseille?

The President has a plan for France's poorest and most violent city

| 3 September
Debate
08:00

We don’t need to talk more about our mental health

The focus can become all consuming and harmful

| 3 September
Reaction
17:00

Joe Biden has started a war with the Deep State

The oldest president in American history has convulsed the old guard

| 2 September
Video
15:45

Richard H. Thaler: on vaccines, ‘nudge’ isn’t enough

Freddie Sayers challenges the Nobel prize winner and 'Nudge' inventor on the impact of his method

| 2 September
Spotted
11:39

Meet Replika, your new A.I. best friend

Are automated relationships the grim future for our atomised society?

| 2 September
Dark Web
10:20

You need to know about the Doge meme NFT

It may seem ridiculous, but in the crypto world it could be worth billions

| 2 September
Explainer
08:00

Handing weapons to US enemies could have been avoided

China, Russia and Iran will be all over the Taliban's new fleet

| 2 September
Spotted
15:19

How judges are weaponising vaccines

The criminal justice system turns to public health concerns

| 1 September
Chart
11:42

Why is Rishi Sunak still the most popular politician in the UK?

The Chancellor wasted billions on making homes more expensive

| 1 September
Explainer
07:00

Under Taliban rule, ISKP will flourish

That there will be no functional state is to the terrorist group's advantage

| 1 September
Series: Apocalyptic thinking

Apocalyptic thinking

Our contributors contemplate the end of the world

When Labour believed in Brexit

Forty years ago, Left-wing MPs travelled to Brussels to negotiate an exit

Richard Johnson
Texas has betrayed women

The abortion bill is a humiliating act of misogyny

Jill Filipovic
America’s African shame

Susan Williams' 'White Malice' shows how destructive US imperialism was

Ralph Leonard
The EU’s secret empire

Wealthy states treat Eastern Europe as a colony

Are white feminists evil?

New anti-racist books don't understand the true power of modern feminism

Kat Rosenfield

New anti-racist books don't understand the true power of modern feminism

Kat Rosenfield
Life is one big status game

The battle to be virtuous inspires endless political cruelty

Ed West
Why was Virginia Woolf so rude?

She knew that all of us are actually horrible

Henry Oliver

Box Set: Black Lives Matter

Our contributors examine the protest movement that shook the world

Critical Race Theory ignores anti-Semitism

Its obsession with 'whiteness' overlooks centuries of discrimination

Joel Kotkin Edward Heyman
How activists captured publishing

Resistance to capitalism has become just another way of selling things

Sam Leith
The West’s cultural revolution is over

The return of censorship, speech codes and taboos suggests society returning to normal

Ed West
Antiracism won’t save you

Robin DiAngelo's new book is self-help for narcissistic white people

Tomiwa Owolade

Why wellness gurus become Covid dissidents

The world of alternative health was already primed to question the medical establishment

Gavin Haynes
What the Mongols did for us

The Golden Horde wasn't barbarous, it created the modern world

Razib Khan
Nobody wins the gender wars

Kathleen Stock's new book lays out the irreconcilable absurdities of the trans debate

Mary Harrington
Norman Mailer: prisoner of sex

A pivotal moment in the sexual revolution involved the novelist and four feminists

Tomiwa Owolade