Mary Harrington

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Mary Harrington is an UnHerd columnist.

Why Viktor Orban chooses China over the EU

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Who really controls fertility?

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Do similar gender roles always constitute “progress”?

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Whose weird world are we living in?

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Why did the Chinese Communist Party turn on Jack Ma?

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Don’t pity the pornographers

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Why sexual empowerment screws women

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Libertarianism never ends well

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

Parenting should be tyrannical

BY Mary Harrington / 7 mins

The trouble with the ‘intellectual porn star’

BY Mary Harrington / 3 mins

For me, self-identification was a con

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Deck the halls! Ironic hipster Christianity may save us all

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

The desperation behind OnlyFans

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Academics face a moral dilemma

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

In defence of fantasy

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Memo to Justin Welby: Charity is for the Church, not government

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Why sneer at Christmas pudding?

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

There’s something of Picasso about these botched restorations

BY Mary Harrington / 3 mins

London has never been civil

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

The new American empire of anti-imperialism

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Do orgasms make us weak?

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party contradicts itself

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Feminists shouldn’t have sex before marriage

BY Mary Harrington / 7 mins

The West won’t defend Taiwan from China

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

The tyranny of queer theory

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Rebels against the marriage ‘market’

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Prince Harry is royal Kryptonite

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Pope Francis upsets both sides of the culture war

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Has ‘Long Covid’ left us leaderless?

BY Mary Harrington / 4 mins

Water shortages? You can bet on it

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

How we all became prisoners of gender

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Don’t treat children like consumer goods

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Cuties isn’t kiddie porn — it’s tragedy

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Even tribal Tories are baffled by the Rule of Six

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

What if the feminists had won?

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Has Boris forgotten our fishing history?

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Yes, women are suffering during Covid-19 — but it’s men who are dying…

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

On euthanasia, old Conservatives are the new radicals

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

The commuters are revolting

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

America’s culture war is turning into a petty squabble

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

England will miss our Church when it’s gone

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Don’t cancel Rule Britannia… Tweak it

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

How sexual empowerment screws women

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Finally! A religious story that is not about escape

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Why Stamford said no to modernity

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Why it’s time to take ‘wokeness’ seriously

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

Noblesse oblige for the woke generation

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Imagine a world without contraception

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Boris truthers are the real giant babies

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

The world according to LARP

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

The almost-comical tale of Lady A

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

We’d never build another Albert Hall

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Robots aren’t the cure for lockdown isolation

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Blame the parents for this angry activism

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

The BLM protests are the perfect Dionysiac moment

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Stranded seafarers could trigger a national food crisis

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Incels could become the new Vikings

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Watermelons won’t save the planet

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

The bloody truth about animals

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

After Covid, a demographic crisis awaits

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Abolishing the police is a cop out

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Descending into the underworld

BY Mary Harrington / < 1 min

What Antifa and the alt-Right have in common

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

How Brooklyn Hipsterdom disintegrated under lockdown

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Is China trolling the West?

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

A newer, better version of the Free Speech Union?

BY Mary Harrington / 3 mins

China’s amour propre has become its tragic flaw

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Lockdown shattered my parental bond

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

Does blank slateism make us more intolerant?

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Who was the real Oliver Cromwell?

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

The stories our footpaths tell

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

Memo to the Government: we don’t all live in zones 1 to 4

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Not every death is a tragedy

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

The hidden culture war behind Michael Gove’s bookshelf

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Is anorexia wired into our moral foundations?

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

So you want to quit the rat race

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

Should home schooling be banned?

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

How royal mistresses beefed in the 17th century

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Who cares about carers?

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

The West is becoming like China, not the other way round

BY Mary Harrington / 3 mins

Teach children knowledge — not critical thinking

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

London’s millennials have been conned

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Finally! The government recognises childcare as work

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

What is the future for America Inc.?

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

It can’t be ‘big business as usual’ after coronavirus

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

The culture wars are far from over

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

What the West can learn from China

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Stay-at-home mums are ready for lockdown

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Remembering Albert Uderzo, illustrator of the Asterix books

BY Mary Harrington / < 1 min

How do we face human extinction?

BY Mary Harrington / < 1 min

Get off social media and help!

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

The strange experience of watching Schrödinger’s Half Marathon

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

The extraordinary tale of a monarch who is above the law

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Why aren’t women having more babies?

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

What Germany gets wrong about assisted dying

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Neo-Nazis and Jihadis share the same enemy

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Farming is too important for Britain to be ‘like Singapore’

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Why are children’s books so ugly?

BY Mary Harrington / 7 mins

Trouble in Paradise: The dark underbelly of the Maldives

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Gays and lesbians are abandoning the LGBTQIAA+ movement

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

The post-liberalism of Michel Houellebecq

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Hate crime is the new blasphemy

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Without God, it’s harder to defend against eugenics

BY Mary Harrington / 3 mins

America’s conservatives are turning radical

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

‘Cultural Christian’ is an empty idea

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Corinthian columns won’t fix Milton Keynes

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

The voice of manual work in the world of letters

BY Mary Harrington / < 1 min

As long as universities are businesses, forget about free speech

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

There’s no such thing as a green vegan

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

It’s time for the church to go green

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

The Google Maps hack underlines our powerlessness

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

This piece about the 1990s rave scene takes me back

BY Mary Harrington / < 1 min

Why tradwives aren’t trad enough

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

Memo to the heterosexual heterophobe: why not try chastity?

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Going vegan will not save the planet

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Why the mummy wars are really class wars

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

Two cheers for the Welsh smacking ban

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

The new ‘Orthodox Conservatives’ are missing a trick

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

How Jesuit missionaries invented spin

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Harry and Meghan shouldn’t turn their royalty into royalties

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

Amazon’s predatory tactics spread to India

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

A road trip into the spirit world

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Conservatives, stop kidding yourselves about ‘viewpoint diversity’

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

John Clare, poet of the Somewheres

BY Mary Harrington / 7 mins

Can churches solve Britain’s age segregation problem?

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Studying Classics shouldn’t be an elite pursuit

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

The cost of liberal economics

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

The top 5 climbers and fallers in the world of ideas

BY Mary Harrington / 3 mins

Lessons from 2018: the year of uncivil society

BY Mary Harrington / 4 mins

How motherhood put an end to my liberalism

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Leave your echo chambers this Christmas

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

The dark side of the communitarian idyll

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Judges are on a collision course with the Church

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Is patriotism racism in disguise?

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

The danger ahead for Boris Johnson

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

Outside London, Giles, it really isn’t that bad

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

South Korean women go on strike — and who can blame them?

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Competing visions for our brave, new intangible world

BY Mary Harrington / 3 mins

Conservatives can be politically correct too

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Who gains from the great university scam?

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

How can we find meaning in bullshit jobs?

BY Mary Harrington / < 1 min

Is America losing the war on misery?

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

GPS “crop circles” point to a weird data future

BY Mary Harrington / < 1 min

Iran shows the danger of a nationalised internet

BY Mary Harrington / < 1 min

Why Remainers are the imperialist nostalgics

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

Autocratic regimes are influencing our universities

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Could national service save higher education?

BY Mary Harrington / 4 mins

Pity the poor avocado-eating graduates

BY Mary Harrington / 4 mins

Are the Kids Al(t)right?

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Matt Hancock wants to sequence your baby’s DNA

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

How marrying your cousin corrupts society

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Parasols in space? Pet sensors on cars? What Europe really wants…

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

In defence of the Illiberal Arts

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Will climate sceptics save us from global warming?

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Blake’s visionary imagination

BY Mary Harrington / < 1 min

Why liberal feminists don’t care

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

Weekend Long Read: Inside China’s Gulags

BY Mary Harrington / < 1 min

LeBron James kowtows to China

BY Mary Harrington / < 1 min

Weekend long read: China’s illiberal Confucianism

BY Mary Harrington / < 1 min

How motherhood put an end to my liberalism

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

Weekend Long Read: The Myth of Boundless Growth

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Social mobility won’t bring social justice

BY Mary Harrington / 4 mins

Weekend long read: In defence of being an arsehole

BY Mary Harrington / < 1 min

Who benefits from slavery reparations?

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins

Weekend Long Read: Camera Above The Classroom

BY Mary Harrington / < 1 min

Why conservatism is failing

BY Mary Harrington / 5 mins

Yale’s real problem is not free speech

BY Mary Harrington / 2 mins