America's new free speech crisis

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Will China step in to defend Venezuela?

Miquel Vila

News 3h

JD Vance: Ukraine will eventually lose Donetsk

Rob Lownie

Explainer 6h

Why are Zoomers embracing extremist ideas?

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They view politics as a form of entertainment, more like a video game.

Joel Kotkin

Sunday, December 21st Sunday
Dec 21^st

Reaction 19:00

Are liberals ready to welcome back Dave Chappelle?

Oliver Bateman

Reaction 16:00

Betting on casinos will cost New York City dearly

Matthew Gasda

Explainer 08:00

Globalization has killed the Christmas market

Globalization has killed the Christmas market

Loïc Frémond

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JD Vance: Nick Fuentes ‘can eat shit’

JD Vance: Nick Fuentes ‘can eat shit’ The VP on the Right’s civil war

Sohrab Ahmari

8 mins

22 Dec 2025 -

Full transcript: JD Vance on American identity

Full transcript: JD Vance on American identity

Sohrab Ahmari

13 mins

22 Dec 2025 -

Poland has turned on its Ukrainians

Poland has turned on its Ukrainians

Ian Birrell

7 mins

22 Dec 2025 -

Full transcript: JD Vance on American identity

Full transcript: JD Vance on American identity Plus, he speaks on Ukraine, Israel, the Pope and more

Sohrab Ahmari

13 mins

22 Dec 2025 -

Poland has turned on its Ukrainians

Refugees

Poland has turned on its Ukrainians Violence against refugees is soaring

Ian Birrell

7 mins

22 Dec 2025 -

Full transcript: JD Vance on American identity

Full transcript: JD Vance on American identity Plus, he speaks on Ukraine, Israel, the Pope and more

Sohrab Ahmari

13 mins

22 Dec 2025 -

Poland has turned on its Ukrainians

Poland has turned on its Ukrainians Violence against refugees is soaring

Ian Birrell

7 mins

22 Dec 2025 -

From the UK edition

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Voters would bear cost of Ed Miliband chancellorship

Voters would bear cost of Ed Miliband chancellorship

Henry Hill

Analysis 12h

Kemi Badenoch can’t evade the coalition question forever

Peter Franklin

Sunday, December 21st Sunday
Dec 21^st

Debate 13:00

David Walliams shows ideology matters more than conduct

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Britain’s creative class functions as a gated community, policed by fashion and bounded by fear.

Josephine Bartosch

Friday, December 19th Friday
Dec 19^th

Reaction 07:00

Labour’s violence against women plan is empty posturing

Labour’s violence against women plan is empty posturing

Joan Smith

Thursday, December 18th Thursday
Dec 18^th

Debate 15:45

English Heritage’s Christmas revisionism is a sign of cultural decline

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Does the truth matter to the modern heritage industry?

Adam James Pollock

Debate 10:00

Scotland is making a dangerous bet on medical cannabis

Scotland is making a dangerous bet on medical cannabis

Iain Macwhirter

Wednesday, December 17th Wednesday
Dec 17^th

Debate 15:00

Chagossians will not be silenced by Western guilt

Chagossians will not be silenced by Western guilt

Tom Ough

Analysis 07:00

Is Kemi Badenoch really pulling the Tories back from the brink?

Peter Franklin

Monday, December 15th Monday
Dec 15^th

Analysis 07:00

Stripping Net Zero powers won’t solve London’s housing crisis

John Myers

Friday, December 12th Friday
Dec 12^th

Reaction 13:00

Great British Railways rebrand is hollow nostalgia

Niall Gooch

Birmingham’s Dickensian nightmare

Poverty

Birmingham’s Dickensian nightmare The second city needs a new Christmas Carol

Alex Taylor and Tracy King

6 mins

22 Dec 2025 -

Will MAGA survive its civil war?

Will MAGA survive its civil war? Infighting has engulfed the Right

Leighton Woodhouse

5 mins

21 Dec 2025 -

Consider the roadman

Multiculturalism

Consider the roadman He is feared, mocked and exploited

Ralph Leonard

6 mins

19 Dec 2025 -

Our demonic drive for drunkenness

Our demonic drive for drunkenness Raw-dogging consciousness isn’t easy

Jarryd Bartle

4 mins

18 Dec 2025 -

Watch & listen

Greg Lukianoff America’s new free speech crisis

Aris Roussinos The Sunset Ltd

The Econoclasts Why Europe can’t break free from the US

Steve Gallant The Islamist gangs inside our prisons

The Econoclasts The AI ‘bubble’ myth

Politics

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29.09 2025

Why Portland’s hipsters may secretly approve the National Guard

29.09 2025

Eric Adams exit won’t save Andrew Cuomo

29.09 2025

Gaza flotilla civil war shows the problem with the Omnicause

Where the Labour Right went wrong

Where the Labour Right went wrong

Aaron Bastani

5 mins

Benedict Anderson: humane nationalist

Benedict Anderson: humane nationalist

Aris Roussinos

7 mins

Kathleen Stock, Ed West & James Marriott The slop-ification of literature

Saturday, December 20th Saturday
Dec 20^th

Reaction 17:00

Elise Stefanik’s exit exposes GOP’s New York problem

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The path to victory runs through moderate suburbs and culturally liberal city voters.

Santiago Vidal Calvo

Analysis 13:00

October 7 inquiry risks entrenching Netanyahu's power

David Swift

Reaction 08:15

Boxing was a circus long before Anthony Joshua vs Jake Paul

Boxing was a circus long before Anthony Joshua vs Jake Paul

Rob Lownie

Islamic State is back

Weekend analysis

Islamic State is back Jungle jihadis threaten Southeast Asia

Alex Alfirraz Scheers

6 mins

20 Dec 2025 -

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

Michael Lind

6 mins

23 Oct 2025 -

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

Alexandra Jones

7 mins

13 Oct 2025 -

The Econoclasts The sham of European ‘values’

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

How Costco seduced Britain’s middle class

Weekend Dispatch

How Costco seduced Britain’s middle class American supersized consumerism is irresistible

Wessie du Toit

6 mins

20 Dec 2025 -

The triumph of Brexitball Our football style has followed politics

Jonathan Wilson

7 mins

10 Oct 2025 -

Our Mission

When the herd takes off in one direction, what do you do?
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Why the Brussels money-grab will fail

Why the Brussels money-grab will fail Even moderate voices are defying Brussels

Thomas Fazi

6 mins

20 Dec 2025 -

Friday, December 19th Friday
Dec 19^th

Debate 18:30

Why are the Democrats burying their autopsy report?

Why are the Democrats burying their autopsy report?

Michael Baharaeen

Reaction 17:00

Putin press conference shows why peace remains distant

Bethany Elliott

Explainer 13:00

OpenAI deal could cement Amazon’s dominance

Gavin Haynes

Analysis 10:55

Failed Russian assets scheme punctures Europe’s delusion

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They had no constructive proposals of their own, just a reiteration of their red lines.

Wolfgang Munchau

The Iron Lady who could save Venezuela

Ian Birrell

5 mins

9 Oct 2025 -

Trump’s monumentalistic aesthetic He wants to memorialize America's greatness

Adam Ellwanger and John J. Waters

6 mins

23 Sep 2025 -

Madeleine Sumption The truth about net immigration

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

There’s no silver lining to FGM

There’s no silver lining to FGM Cultural relativism is an ethical abyss

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

19 Dec 2025 -

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

Michal Kranz

11 mins

21 Sep 2025 -

Culture

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11.12 2025

Italian food is too diverse for a UNESCO heritage label

18.09 2025

Jimmy Kimmel suspension confirms comedy belongs to the Right

13.09 2025

National Gallery’s modern art push is a disaster for the Tate

Tom Stoppard’s anti-political art

Tom Stoppard’s anti-political art

John Maier

5 mins

Let’s talk about Ariana Grande’s body

Let’s talk about Ariana Grande’s body

Sarah Ditum

5 mins

The Econoclasts Trump’s $6 trillion crypto plot

Thursday, December 18th Thursday
Dec 18^th

Analysis 18:00

Even some Democrats are breaking ranks on trans

Lisa Selin Davis

Reaction 12:30

Vivek Ramaswamy fights a losing battle against the Groypers

Oliver Bateman

Analysis 07:00

Looser EV rules reveal cracks in Europe’s green strategy

Franklin Okeke

Wednesday, December 17th Wednesday
Dec 17^th

Reaction 19:00

Why does Trump World keep speaking with liberal journalists?

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Rationing out access could be used to incentivise better treatment from ideologically opposed outlets.

Emily Jashinsky

Analysis 17:30

Is country-club Republicanism dying?

Michael Lind

Reaction 12:00

Norman Podhoretz’s universalism is a corrective to our identity politics

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His formative experiences urged him to a ferocious defence of American democracy.

Sohrab Ahmari

Explainer 10:00

UK youth unemployment is nearing crisis point

Andrew O'Brien

Has Kylie saved Christmas?

Weekend Spotlight

Has Kylie saved Christmas? She’s our festive unifier

Julie Burchill

5 mins

20 Dec 2025 -

Should philosophers take drugs? We must embrace the weirdness of the world

Justin Smith-Ruiu

8 mins

12 Sep 2025 -

Faith

The war for China's soul Xi sees Christianity as spiritual opium

Christopher Harding

5 mins

1 Sep 2025 -

Rod Dreher Inside the MAGA civil war

Europe’s identity crisis

Europe’s identity crisis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Confessions of a failed restaurateur

Confessions of a failed restaurateur The Government sealed my fate

Richard Crampton Platt

8 mins

19 Dec 2025 -

Trump’s climate policy is class warfare MAGA wants to own the libs

Matt Huber

5 mins

30 Jul 2025 -

Science

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25.11 2025

How increased prostate cancer screening can harm men

01.10 2025

Do we really want a world without mothers?

30.09 2025

AI companions are destroying human relationships

The book that could shake the Pope’s faith

The book that could shake the Pope’s faith

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Lies, damned lies, and reality TV

Lies, damned lies, and reality TV

Tom Chivers

6 mins

Rod Dreher The Battle for the Right

Gavin Newsom is having fun

Gavin Newsom is having fun And it makes him a plausible candidate

Ross Barkan

5 mins

20 Dec 2025 -

Tuesday, December 16th Tuesday
Dec 16^th

News 18:30

US college censorship hits record high in 2025

US college censorship hits record high in 2025

UnHerd Staff

News 16:45

Susie Wiles: Trump believes that Putin wants all of Ukraine

Archie Earle

Reaction 13:00

Defending FGM sanitizes abuse of women

Josephine Bartosch

Debate 10:00

The British case for data centers

The British case for data centers

Henry Hill

Analysis 07:00

If a coup doesn’t fell Starmer, next year’s elections will

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For all the vague media protestations, this is a party leadership that is on notice.

David Littlefair

Ozzy Osbourne made Birmingham his power He reassured the city's alienated weirdos

Tracy King

5 mins

24 Jul 2025 -

Music

How Black Sabbath transcended Birmingham Heavy metal was forged in the Midlands

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

3 Jul 2025 -

Prof. Sunetra Gupta The lost lessons of lockdown

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Now boys hate their bodies too

Now boys hate their bodies too Looksmaxxers are acting like teenage girls

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

18 Dec 2025 -

War

Trouble in the National Guard Troop morale has rarely been lower

Malcom Kyeyune

9 mins

26 Jun 2025 -

Faith

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26.09 2025

The Church of England is wrong to condemn migration protests

23.09 2025

Marriage is not just for the wealthy

22.09 2025

Charlie Kirk funeral fuses Christian mercy with MAGA populism

Faith is the new Successor Ideology

Faith is the new Successor Ideology

Tim DeRoche

6 mins

Why Christianity is so radical

Why Christianity is so radical

Marilyn Simon

7 mins

Freddie Sayers What the Covid inquiry ignored

Monday, December 15th Monday
Dec 15^th

Explainer 20:00

New hate speech bill reflects Canada’s widening sectarian divisions

Michael Cuenco

Reaction 18:30

Rob Reiner’s liberal optimism shaped a generation of cinema

Ralph Leonard

Explainer 15:10

Australia ignored growing Islamist threat for too long

Australia ignored growing Islamist threat for too long

Kyle Orton

Debate 11:45

Elites are fueling a dystopian surrogacy market

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Children with US passports are proving popular for the international super-rich.

Mary Harrington

Explainer 10:30

Zelensky’s Nato concession is an admission of reality

Bethany Elliott

Sunday, December 14th Sunday
Dec 14^th

Explainer 19:00

John Cena’s retirement spells end of apolitical American life

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He existed in a space where neutrality remained commercially viable.

Oliver Bateman

Reaction 14:00

Sydney Hanukkah shooting is all too predictable

Sydney Hanukkah shooting is all too predictable

Limor Simhony Philpott

Explainer 08:00

Why have half of secondary school pupils been off with anxiety?

Kristina Murkett

The Chanukah candle still burns bright

The Chanukah candle still burns bright Jews must remain defiant

David Mamet

5 mins

19 Dec 2025 -

Americans are seeing ghosts The paranormal industry is booming

Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

5 mins

23 Jun 2025 -

The battle for Poland isn’t over Traditional values aren’t welcome in Brussels

Michal Kranz

7 mins

6 Jun 2025 -

The Econoclasts Labour’s Keir Starmer problem

Should Labour sack Starmer & will Reeves bankrupt Britain?

Should Labour sack Starmer & will Reeves bankrupt Britain?

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Zoomer politics is doomed to fail

Zoomer politics is doomed to fail Only social animals produce durable change

Michael Cuenco

6 mins

18 Dec 2025 -

'I Kissed a Boy' pays lip service to dogma Contestants don't practice what they preach

John Maier

8 mins

1 Jun 2025 -

War

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22.12 2025

Will China step in to defend Venezuela?

12.12 2025

In any Ukraine peace deal, Europe loses

06.11 2025

What is Prince Harry hiding in his Remembrance Sunday essay?

Why Trump is pandering to Putin

Why Trump is pandering to Putin

Edward Luttwak

5 mins

Military drones will upend the world

Military drones will upend the world

James Kingston

9 mins

Matthew Crawford The truth about ‘Smart Cities’

Donald Trump’s petulant foreign policy

Donald Trump’s petulant foreign policy America is willfully abandoning its friends

Jonathan Kirshner

7 mins

18 Dec 2025 -

Saturday, December 13th Saturday
Dec 13^th

Reaction 17:00

Losing dive bars will crush neighborhood life

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They’re the defining third spaces of the last century.

Ryan Zickgraf

Analysis 14:00

Mark Rutte’s Russia rhetoric is paranoid, not prudent

Mark Rutte’s Russia rhetoric is paranoid, not prudent

Anatol Lieven

Factcheck 09:30

Is this year’s flu season really worse than any other?

David Paton

Can China rescue the classics? Greek philosophy may be of ideological use

Bruce Clark

6 mins

13 May 2025 -

Welcome to the age of Otaku Ghibli memes are just the start

Louis Elton

7 mins

4 Apr 2025 -

The Econoclasts Rachel Reeves’ fatal mistake

Palantir’s secret pact & the Euro’s fatal flaw

Palantir’s secret pact & the Euro’s fatal flaw

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

What’s eating the dinner lady?

What’s eating the dinner lady? You can’t feed kids austerity

Alex Taylor

10 mins

17 Dec 2025 -

Feud

Japan's humiliation of South Korea They should be the best of friends

Oliver Jia

5 mins

21 Mar 2025 -

Society

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29.09 2025

Did Trump’s Ryder Cup visit backfire?

28.09 2025

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

25.09 2025

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

Who killed the East London mobster?

Who killed the East London mobster?

Dominic Adler

5 mins

The battle behind digital IDs

The battle behind digital IDs

Toby Green

8 mins

Mary Harrington, Helen Thompson & Aaron Bastani Should Britain divorce America?

Friday, December 12th Friday
Dec 12^th

Debate 16:00

Why British Jews could switch to Reform UK

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The group has grown increasingly concerned about multiculturalism and immigration.

Samuel Rubinstein

Debate 10:00

New puberty-blocker trial ignores children’s wellbeing

New puberty-blocker trial ignores children’s wellbeing

Josephine Bartosch

Analysis 07:00

In any Ukraine peace deal, Europe loses

Wolfgang Munchau

Thursday, December 11th Thursday
Dec 11^th

Explainer 18:00

When will US escalation in Venezuela hit its limit?

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Getting Maduro out of power might be the easy part. The hard part comes the day after tomorrow.

Tom Rogan

Debate 15:00

Italian food is too diverse for a UNESCO heritage label

Mattia Ferraresi

Online 12:00

Tim Pool-Candace Owens feud reveals emptiness of e-politics

Mary Harrington

Reaction 10:10

Should the EU fear a Bardella-Farage alliance?

Should the EU fear a Bardella-Farage alliance?

Peter Franklin

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s tragic triumph

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s tragic triumph The social-media populist is the future

Emily Jashinsky

8 mins

17 Dec 2025 -

critical thinking

Aptitude tests are making us stupid They encourage workplace conservatism

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

9 mins

12 Mar 2025 -

Frank Zappa: America's last rebel The old music gods are cashing out

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

17 Feb 2025 -

Deep Dive Will Trump destroy the BBC?

China vs. the dollar & Europe’s far-Right failure

China vs. the dollar & Europe’s far-Right failure

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The UK is falling into China's trap

The UK is falling into China's trap Our institutions are exposed

Luke de Pulford

8 mins

17 Dec 2025 -

The folly of a British Silicon Valley Starmerism is suffocating its progress

Travis Aaroe

5 mins

7 Feb 2025 -