Today's Edition, 9 August 2021

Critical Race Theory rewrites history

Its obsession with 'whiteness' ignores centuries of discrimination

Joel Kotkin Edward Heyman
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Running back to Tony Blair won’t cut it, Keir

The Labour leader's latest call to embrace the Blair era won't save him

| 6 August

How the Left will lose the culture wars

Liberals are most in danger of cancellation

Liberals are most in danger of cancellation

Kat Rosenfield
Chinese censorship comes to the West

The internet has never been so authoritarian

The internet has never been so authoritarian

Jamie Bartlett
Lessons from a psych ward

A re-issued memoir from the sixties feels eerily familiar

A re-issued memoir from the sixties feels eerily familiar

Frances Wilson
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Running back to Tony Blair won’t cut it, Keir

The Labour leader's latest call to embrace the Blair era won't save him

| 6 August

Barack Obama was a false hope

Did the self-satisfied president lay the path for Trumpism?

Justin Webb
Beware the porn evangelists

Why is porn for kids being seriously debated?

Mary Harrington
Does Owen Jones have a woman problem?

Certain journalists aren't allowed to express scepticism about the transgender debate

Douglas Murray
Does Owen Jones have a woman problem?

Certain journalists aren't allowed to express scepticism about the transgender debate

Douglas Murray
Latin is the language of the enemy

Some things are all the better for being dead

Giles Fraser
How artists lost their courage

Keeping silent is the price of a successful career

Jess De Wahls
Macron’s vaccine passport gamble

Mandatory passes could provoke a new Gilets Jaunes movement

John Lichfield

Mandatory passes could provoke a new Gilets Jaunes movement

John Lichfield
Sturgeon’s drugs shame

The SNP is blaming Westminster for a scandal of its own making

Ruth Davidson
Leavers were right about immigration

Why won't the Left admit the truth about open borders?

Paul Embery

Interviews.

we sit down with original thinkers and talk ideas

Winston Marshall, Jess de Wahls, Sarah Ditum: free speech in the Arts

The latest UnHerd Live event, hosted by Freddie Sayers

Trump Insider: Chances of 2024 run just got a lot higher

Freddie Sayers spoke to former Trump advisor Jason Miller

Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created

Freddie Sayers spoke to Larry Sanger about why he left

Rupert Sheldrake: Science does not tolerate dissent

Freddie Sayers spoke to the biologist about the dogma of scientism

Govt modeller: What our Covid forecasts got wrong

SPI-M member Dr Mike Tildesley considers whether June 21st could have gone ahead


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Will the alarmist media coverage of Covid ever end?

Certain media outlets are fear-mongering to generate clicks

| 6 August
Response
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New rules bring politics into the classroom by stealth

Schools should be about education, not "social justice"

| 6 August
Debate
07:00

It’s time to welcome back Louis C.K.

If you don't like him, don't watch him

| 6 August
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Why this trans athlete is no Laurel Hubbard

Unlike the New Zealand weightlifter, Quinn is a biological female

| 5 August
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English words on French ID cards? Scandale!

Summer is here, and with it a bout of outrage at the lingua franca

Spotted
11:40

Tiktok’s latest fad: confessions of trauma

What is causing so many young people to identify as emotionally damaged?

| 5 August
Seen Elsewhere
07:00

Will Biden look beyond the bobos?

The President looks genuinely interested in the non-college educated

| 5 August
Explainer
15:43

Is Germany finally standing up to Beijing?

The Bayern's voyage marks a sea change in Germany's foreign policy

| 4 August
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14:02

Why national populists love Hungary

Tucker Carlson's visit is the latest in a long line of American malcontents

| 4 August
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Biden’s border crisis could doom the Democrats

A surge in illegal crossings is hurting the Party in the south-west

| 4 August
Explainer
07:00

Why is the SNP bringing the Greens into government?

The environmentalist party almost never rebels

| 4 August
Idea
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The Democrats face an excruciating dilemma in 2024

Neither Biden nor Kamala make a convincing case for the presidency

| 3 August
Series: Apocalyptic thinking

Apocalyptic thinking

Our contributors contemplate the end of the world

Will Trump bring down DeSantis?

The Florida governor's fate has always rested in Donald's hands

Oliver Wiseman
How activists captured publishing

Resistance to capitalism has become just another way of selling things

Sam Leith
Why did Tottenham erupt?

Mark Duggan was no saint — he was merely a trigger

David Matthews
The corruption of the Vatican

The trial of Cardinal Becciu could destroy the reputation of the Holy See

Damian Thompson
Being fat isn’t feminist

The body positivity movement denies indisputable facts

Sarah Ditum

The body positivity movement denies indisputable facts

Sarah Ditum
The Ramones didn’t want to grow up

They invented punk rock — but couldn't survive it

Dorian Lynskey
Beware the porn evangelists

Why is porn for kids being seriously debated?

Mary Harrington

Box Set: Black Lives Matter

Our contributors examine the protest movement that shook the world

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 does the West hate itself?

White progressives are blinded by their own guilt

Remi Adekoya
The day American justice died

A year after George Floyd's death, the powerless have been abandoned

Bret Weinstein

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