The Econoclasts

America is spiraling towards a debt crisis

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What's happening today beneath the surface

Wednesday, August 26 Wednesday
Aug 26^th

Debate 18:00

Stanley Druckenmiller’s AI use signals a bleak future for writing

Philip Hensher

Debate 13:15

Why is JK Rowling being smeared as a Holocaust denier?

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A generation of young people has been brainwashed into casually repeating blatant untruths.

Joan Smith

Reaction 10:00

Dolly Parton symbolized a vanishing America

Dolly Parton symbolized a vanishing America

Daniel Kalder

Analysis 07:00

Has Giorgia Meloni abandoned the populist Right?

William Nattrass

Tuesday, August 25 Tuesday
Aug 25^th

Explainer 18:00

Trump is sacrificing ranchers for cheaper beef

Garth Brown

Debate 16:20

Banning cousin marriage won’t make it disappear

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The British authorities have long since given up the authority to monitor who has children with whom.

Chris Bayliss

Explainer 13:15

Why is Abdul El-Sayed taking money from a Hamas-linked network?

Why is Abdul El-Sayed taking money from a Hamas-linked network?

Kyle Orton

Analysis 10:00

Mark Carney can win by walking away from a US trade deal

Michael Cuenco

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Dolly Parton: head of the country class

Dolly Parton: head of the country class She was Appalachia’s patron saint

Farahn Morgan

5 mins

Aug 27 2026 - 1:37am

Harry and Meghan cannot escape their fate

Harry and Meghan cannot escape their fate

Simon Critchley

6 mins

Aug 27 2026 - 12:02am

Why corpses shouldn't be sacred

Why corpses shouldn't be sacred

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

Aug 27 2026 - 12:01am

Harry and Meghan cannot escape their fate

Royals

Harry and Meghan cannot escape their fate They are prisoners of the royal family

Simon Critchley

6 mins

Aug 27 2026 - 12:02am

Why corpses shouldn't be sacred

Death

Why corpses shouldn't be sacred Beneath our reverence lies hostility

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

Aug 27 2026 - 12:01am

Harry and Meghan cannot escape their fate

Harry and Meghan cannot escape their fate They are prisoners of the royal family

Simon Critchley

6 mins

Aug 27 2026 - 12:02am

Why corpses shouldn't be sacred

Why corpses shouldn't be sacred Beneath our reverence lies hostility

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

Aug 27 2026 - 12:01am

From the UK edition

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Wednesday, August 26 Wednesday
Aug 26^th

Analysis 16:00

The Greens are dangerously wrong about Tasers

David Matthews

Tuesday, August 25 Tuesday
Aug 25^th

Reaction 07:00

Britain’s mounting debt is a warning for Labour

Andrew O'Brien

Monday, August 24 Monday
Aug 24^th

Reaction 07:00

New Henry Nowak revelations fuel the Right’s distrust of police

Dominic Adler

Sunday, August 23 Sunday
Aug 23^rd

Reaction 08:00

Reform UK has forgotten Thatcherism’s original purpose

James Sean Dickson

Saturday, August 22 Saturday
Aug 22^nd

Analysis 08:00

The Lib Dems are becoming Labour’s lapdogs

Peter Franklin

Friday, August 21 Friday
Aug 21^st

Reaction 16:00

Rowan Williams should engage with Farage on Christianity

Gerry Lynch

Tuesday, August 18 Tuesday
Aug 18^th

Analysis 10:00

Andy Burnham should not delay opening up the North Sea

Kathryn Porter

Monday, August 17 Monday
Aug 17^th

News 16:00

Civil Service scraps math test for finance graduates

Arthur Reynolds

Saturday, August 15 Saturday
Aug 15^th

Explainer 08:00

The SNP has turned welfare into a political machine

Iain Macwhirter

Friday, August 14 Friday
Aug 14^th

Analysis 16:00

Kemi Badenoch is the real loser of the Clacton by-election

Peter Franklin

How HMOs took over Britain

How HMOs took over Britain Towns suffer while investors profit

Peter Apps

14 mins

Aug 27 2026 - 12:03am

Local councils are worse than you think

Local councils are worse than you think They make ‘The Office’ look good

Anonymous Data Scientist

8 mins

Aug 26 2026 - 12:01am

What Farage can teach Prince Harry

What Farage can teach Prince Harry You can’t be a celebrity and a public servant

Mary Harrington

6 mins

Aug 25 2026 - 12:04am

The death of middle-class luxuries

The death of middle-class luxuries The Iran war has doomed budget airlines

Malcom Kyeyune

7 mins

Aug 25 2026 - 12:02am

Watch & listen

The Econoclasts America is spiraling towards a debt crisis

Simon Sebag Montefiore What historians get wrong about the Middle East

Richard D. Wolff The decline of the US empire

The Econoclasts Wealth taxes won’t fix Europe

Ron Paul The US bailout machine is spiraling

Politics

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07.22 2026

Are Britain’s prisons beyond saving?

06.29 2026

Andy Burnham’s devolution drive is hollow

06.27 2026

How Andy Burnham cracked vibes politics

Andy Burnham’s grooming gang hypocrisy

Andy Burnham’s grooming gang hypocrisy

Maggie Oliver

5 mins

The Odyssey as AI allegory

The Odyssey as AI allegory

Yanis Varoufakis

8 mins

Kathleen Stock The scandal of Jason Arday

Monday, August 24 Monday
Aug 24^th

Analysis 18:00

Why can’t the anti-war Left condemn Iran?

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The US and the West desperately need an anti-war Left that is normal and patriotic.

Sohrab Ahmari

Debate 16:00

Labour’s cigar crackdown is a war on pleasure

Richard Crampton-Platt

Reaction 12:30

In defense of the DSA’s champagne socialists

Ryan Zickgraf

Analysis 10:00

Putin is building a saboteur army across Europe

Putin is building a saboteur army across Europe

Bethany Elliott

How Miami Third Worldism swallowed MAGA

How Miami Third Worldism swallowed MAGA Exiled hawks refuse to assimilate

Juan David Rojas

8 mins

Aug 26 2026 - 12:00am

Why hot people are Right-wing The beautiful inhabit a different reality

Turi Munthe

5 mins

Jul 2 2026 - 12:00am

Can Burnham banish Maggie's ghost? She’s the root of Labour’s woes

Jonny Ball

7 mins

May 25 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts China's hidden economic crisis

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinization’ of America

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinization’ of America

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Why the British Left has fallen for China

Why the British Left has fallen for China Can Anglo-Dengism cure our ills?

Jonny Ball

7 mins

Aug 26 2026 - 12:03am

Inside the capture of the BBC How transgenderism killed impartiality

Rob Burley

38 mins

May 20 2026 - 12:02am

Our Mission

When the herd takes off in one direction, what do you do?
UnHerd is for people who dare to think for themselves.

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The madness of Trump’s Canada trade war

Political Economy

The madness of Trump’s Canada trade war He should be targeting China, not allies

Michael Lind

4 mins

Aug 25 2026 - 12:00am

Sunday, August 23 Sunday
Aug 23^rd

Explainer 19:00

The same-name trick that could hand Democrats the Senate

John Masko

Analysis 16:30

California’s green agenda is putting its future at risk

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The state’s climate crusade is widening the divide between the haves and have-nots.

Joel Kotkin

Explainer 13:00

Bare Expectations is more Dickensian than you think

Bare Expectations is more Dickensian than you think

Cosmo Adair

Weekend Spotlight

The twilight of the intellectual dark web Heterodox thinkers have become circus acts

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

May 9 2026 - 12:10am

On astonishment and angels Writers must learn to fly backwards

David Keenan

5 mins

Apr 10 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts Andy Burnham is misjudging Britain’s real crisis

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The reckless psychology of boy racers

The reckless psychology of boy racers TikTok offers a gallery of admirers

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

Aug 26 2026 - 12:02am

Can SNL save British comedy? It has caught Donald Trump’s eye

Sophie Heawood

6 mins

Mar 23 2026 - 12:00am

Culture

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08.04 2026

Is the age of slop films coming to an end?

07.19 2026

Broadway is now a failing machine

02.15 2026

Wetherspoons can be one of Britain’s great cultural exports

Why you don’t really get Homer

Why you don’t really get Homer

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

6 mins

Argentina: World Cup villains

Argentina: World Cup villains

Nick Burns

5 mins

Ross Barkan Zohran Mamdani is just the beginning

Saturday, August 22 Saturday
Aug 22^nd

Debate 17:00

Why is the US government meddling in the Nathan Cofnas affair?

John Sailer

Explainer 13:00

The eurozone crisis is a warning to America

The eurozone crisis is a warning to America

Wolfgang Munchau

Friday, August 21 Friday
Aug 21^st

Debate 20:00

Trump’s Iran Economic D-Day is delusional

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Washington is operating on a fundamental misunderstanding of its adversary.

Daniel L. Davis

News 18:15

US condemns Ghent University suspension of Nathan Cofnas

UnHerd Staff

Analysis 12:45

The DSA has a Castro problem

The DSA has a Castro problem

Emily Jashinsky

Debate 10:00

PinkNews is paying the price for abandoning journalism

Julie Bindel

Reaction 07:00

How Harry and Meghan can win back Britain

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They are joked about as ivory tower airheads rather than reviled as monsters of ingratitude.

Niall Gooch

Germany’s Nord Stream grudge

Germany’s Nord Stream grudge The looming trial could undermine support for Ukraine

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

Aug 24 2026 - 12:03am

Is this the end of Hezbollah? Lebanon is finally taking on the militia

Michal Kranz

5 mins

Mar 5 2026 - 12:00am

How Gorton beat Denton The new politics is ethnic, not sectarian

Aris Roussinos

8 mins

Feb 28 2026 - 12:15am

The Econoclasts The war on populism is backfiring

Germany’s economic death trap

Germany’s economic death trap

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

What Farage can teach Prince Harry

What Farage can teach Prince Harry You can’t be a celebrity and a public servant

Mary Harrington

6 mins

Aug 25 2026 - 12:04am

Secret societies

On cannibalism and Jeffrey Epstein Liberal institutions function like secret societies

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

9 mins

Feb 25 2026 - 12:02am

Science

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06.18 2026

Federal lawsuit could spell end of WPATH

11.25 2025

How increased prostate cancer screening can harm men

10.01 2025

Do we really want a world without mothers?

Tim Cook's rotten Apple

Tim Cook's rotten Apple

Patrick McGee

4 mins

Robert Trivers: the last wild man of academia

Robert Trivers: the last wild man of academia

John Maier

7 mins

The Econoclasts The Ukraine turnaround is a media illusion

The return of the loony Left

The return of the loony Left Jason Arday has triggered a collapse of reason

Jonny Ball

6 mins

Aug 22 2026 - 12:05am

Thursday, August 20 Thursday
Aug 20^th

Online 18:30

Postpartum psychosis is turning into TikTok entertainment

Postpartum psychosis is turning into TikTok entertainment

Carolyn D. Gorman

Explainer 16:00

Zelensky is running out of political cover

Jennifer Kavanagh

Analysis 13:10

America’s $40-trillion debt is built on a dangerous gamble

John Rapley

Reaction 10:00

Anti-rape guidance for asylum seekers is a failure of mass migration

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New posters expose a contradiction the Government would rather not confront.

Josephine Bartosch

Debate 07:00

‘Extremist’ children aren’t Prevent’s biggest problem

Dominic Adler

Why myths can save humanity Old stories fill our lives with dignity

Martin Shaw

7 mins

Feb 23 2026 - 12:00am

Lucy Letby’s trial by Netflix The former nurse is as banal as she is evil

Poppy Sowerby

4 mins

Feb 6 2026 - 12:00am

Jonathan Haidt Why the Right should support the social media ban

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The death of middle-class luxuries

The death of middle-class luxuries The Iran war has doomed budget airlines

Malcom Kyeyune

7 mins

Aug 25 2026 - 12:02am

Agatha Christie and the red scare Twenties crime capers were obsessed with communism

Alwyn Turner

6 mins

Jan 29 2026 - 12:00am

Faith

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07.05 2026

Christianity has made a return to the World Cup

09.26 2025

The Church of England is wrong to condemn migration protests

09.23 2025

Marriage is not just for the wealthy

Is Andy Burnham a plastic Papist?

Is Andy Burnham a plastic Papist?

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

Was Pope Leo elected to fight Trump?

Was Pope Leo elected to fight Trump?

John Hooper

7 mins

Norman Finkelstein How Israel lost the Right

Wednesday, August 19 Wednesday
Aug 19^th

Explainer 18:30

How the EU is controlling the Ceuta narrative

How the EU is controlling the Ceuta narrative

Brian Chau

Debate 16:00

True-crime fans are hijacking the Lindsay Clancy case

Kristina Murkett

Analysis 12:45

James Fishback’s Florida defeat is a blow to Groyper politics

Nikos Mohammadi

Reaction 10:00

Bill Rasmussen revolutionized the 24/7 news cycle

Bill Rasmussen revolutionized the 24/7 news cycle

B. Duncan Moench

Analysis 07:00

Jason Arday case has damaged Right-wing trust in universities

Eric Kaufmann

Tuesday, August 18 Tuesday
Aug 18^th

Explainer 18:40

Jon Ossoff is the Democrats’ best anti-Trump weapon

Michael Baharaeen

Debate 16:00

Recognizing Britain’s ethnic identities isn’t racist

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England’s very name derives from being the land of the Angles: the land is named after its people.

Ralph Leonard

Explainer 12:30

Democrats’ Supreme Court reform is a cynical power grab

Kyle Sammin

Dispatch 07:00

Jason Arday has become Britain’s George Floyd

Jason Arday has become Britain’s George Floyd

Rob Lownie

The collapse of the postwar order

The collapse of the postwar order We can’t evade reality forever

B. Duncan Moench

10 mins

Aug 22 2026 - 12:00am

Britain's Atlantic subordination Our place in the world is clear

Aris Roussinos

7 mins

Jan 24 2026 - 12:00am

Looksmaxxing is the new trans Clavicular’s cybertruck smashes conservative hope

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

Jan 3 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts The Brexit report is built on fake data

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Should feminists pity Lindsay Clancy?

Should feminists pity Lindsay Clancy? She is every mother’s worst nightmare

Victoria Smith

5 mins

Aug 24 2026 - 12:02am

On Bonnie Blue and Roger Scruton We have stripped sex of enchantment

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Dec 26 2025 - 12:00am

War

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08.08 2026

The Mecca pact could be a gift to Trump

07.31 2026

Will Hamas really surrender its weapons?

04.13 2026

Does Kemi Badenoch understand Britain’s military dysfunction?

Somali pirates are back

Somali pirates are back

Rose George

6 mins

Trump can still win the Iran war

Trump can still win the Iran war

Edward Luttwak

5 mins

The Econoclasts Europe’s rigged energy market is killing innovation

Why America is running out of missiles

Iran war

Why America is running out of missiles Trump has compounded America’s decline

Edward Luttwak

6 mins

Aug 21 2026 - 12:02am

Monday, August 17 Monday
Aug 17^th

Online 19:00

Nancy Mace has mastered the art of YouTube cringe

James Billot

Analysis 13:00

Moscow strikes won’t give Zelensky a military advantage

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Peace talks would seem unlikely in the current, escalatory climate.

Bethany Elliott

Debate 10:00

Jason Arday’s death is no reason to censor the media

Jason Arday’s death is no reason to censor the media

Mary Harrington

Reaction 07:00

Reform’s welfare policy is straight from the uniparty playbook

James Sean Dickson

The futility of retiree protests Why let Trump ruin your retirement?

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

Nov 14 2025 - 12:00am

What young Republicans are telling us Racial language-policing has failed

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

Oct 23 2025 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts Starmer’s fall exposes the West’s leadership crisis

Europe’s identity crisis

Europe’s identity crisis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The return of the foot fetish

The return of the foot fetish The ‘barefoot shoe’ channels Gen Z’s favorite kink

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

Aug 24 2026 - 12:00am

Don’t mention the old World Wars Outdated analogies make bad foreign policy

Michael Lind

6 mins

Oct 23 2025 - 12:00am

Society

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09.29 2025

Did Trump’s Ryder Cup visit backfire?

09.28 2025

The WHO’s anti-alcohol campaign is a war against joy

09.25 2025

ICE shooting doesn’t herald a new era of Left-wing violence

Dunwich is enchanted England

Dunwich is enchanted England

Mary Harrington

6 mins

How to survive in a Louisiana swamp

How to survive in a Louisiana swamp

Peter Santenello

12 mins

Jake Sullivan Trump has handed Iran victory

Sunday, August 16 Sunday
Aug 16^th

Analysis 19:00

Is Kamala Harris turning into a political liability?

David Masciotra

Reaction 16:00

JD Vance is right to question the dollar’s supremacy

JD Vance is right to question the dollar’s supremacy

John Rapley

Analysis 13:00

More international students won’t fix UK’s doomed universities

Paul Sagar

Debate 08:00

Robbie Williams is trivializing autism

Stella O'Malley

Saturday, August 15 Saturday
Aug 15^th

Analysis 20:00

USS Abraham Lincoln shows the Navy is badly overstretched

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The Trump administration deserves heavy blame.

Tom Rogan

Explainer 17:00

Emergency phone alerts are the Government’s new authoritarian tool

Timandra Harkness

Reaction 13:00

Germany is sleepwalking into a surveillance state

Germany is sleepwalking into a surveillance state

William Nattrass

America’s unstoppable Hispanic future

MAGA

America’s unstoppable Hispanic future Expansionist policies have a way of rebounding

Antonio de Loera-Brust

7 mins

Aug 20 2026 - 12:00am

Why Human Design is perfect for our age It’s religion for the LinkedIn class

Alexandra Jones

7 mins

Oct 13 2025 - 12:00am

The triumph of Brexitball Our football style has followed politics

Jonathan Wilson

7 mins

Oct 10 2025 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts Military spending won’t save Europe

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The red telephone box can save Britain

Weekend Spotlight

The red telephone box can save Britain Modern design must borrow from the past

Louis Elton

8 mins

Aug 22 2026 - 12:04am

Estonian opioids are heading for Britain Nitazenes are far deadlier than fentanyl

Michal Kranz

11 mins

Sep 21 2025 - 12:10am