Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington is a contributing editor at UnHerd.

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We’ve followed Alice down the rabbit hole

Mary Harrington

28 Jul 2021

The attention economy turns violent in Asda A recent supermarket brawl was powered by digital incentives

Mary Harrington

26 Jul 2021

Nightclubs won’t save you

Mary Harrington

21 Jul 2021

Digital censorship is inevitable now Governments are increasingly controlling the flow of information

Mary Harrington

20 Jul 2021

We are all Britney now

Mary Harrington

14 Jul 2021

Big Tech wants to read your mind AI is taking frictionless shopping to new extremes

Mary Harrington

12 Jul 2021

Keep your kinks to yourself

Mary Harrington

07 Jul 2021

The latest front in the identity wars: sexual orientation Activists would have us believe that preferences are just 'genital fetishes'

Mary Harrington

05 Jul 2021

The vanity of young feminism

Mary Harrington

30 Jun 2021

Gender, nationality, species: everything is fluid for Gen Z Social media is rewiring how they understand identity

Mary Harrington

28 Jun 2021

A battle of faiths: Liberals clash with Catholics on abortion To which moral order does the fertility question belong?

Mary Harrington

22 Jun 2021

The problem with male feminists

Mary Harrington

17 Jun 2021

Big Finance will make serfs of us all All that is on offer to the young is a lifetime in rental accommodation

Mary Harrington

14 Jun 2021

The Tories created their own worst enemy

Mary Harrington

09 Jun 2021

Liberty Energy opens a new anti-woke front in corporate PR Their online rebuttal to North Face could signal the start of a new trend

Mary Harrington

07 Jun 2021

Crying is now a political weapon

Mary Harrington

03 Jun 2021

Falling birth rates are not just a Chinese problem Economic forces are disincentivising women from having babies everywhere

Mary Harrington

01 Jun 2021

We can’t be Friends any more

Mary Harrington

27 May 2021

Welcome to post-democracy Politics has become a game for institutional power players, not the voting public

Mary Harrington

24 May 2021

Why utopias always fail

Mary Harrington

20 May 2021

The seductive app for sexless submissives NewNew lets you pay to control other peoples' lives — what could go wrong?

Mary Harrington

19 May 2021

In defence of the Woke Left

Mary Harrington

13 May 2021

Status games are targeting motherhood How did having children become reactionary?

Mary Harrington

10 May 2021

Nobody wins the gender wars

Mary Harrington

06 May 2021

The third law of pornodynamics Every action has an equal and opposite reaction — porn included

Mary Harrington

04 May 2021

Why the elites have no shame

Mary Harrington

29 Apr 2021

Canadian throuples and the future of parenting A legal decision about polyamory is a bad omen for family life

Mary Harrington

28 Apr 2021

It’s the Queen or tyranny

Mary Harrington

21 Apr 2021

Why the new liberal elite is coming for the WASPs The debate over ‘Anglo-Saxon’ is just another cover for power dynamics

Mary Harrington

19 Apr 2021

The virtues of masculinity

Mary Harrington

15 Apr 2021

What’s really behind America’s BDSM craze? The forbidden yearning for hierarchy is coming out in the bedroom

Mary Harrington

12 Apr 2021

Foucault’s attitude to sex is alive and well in intersectional feminism The bid to de-stigmatise all norms would have made the philosopher proud

Mary Harrington

01 Apr 2021

What Starbucks has stolen

Mary Harrington

31 Mar 2021

We’re living in a pornstar’s world

Mary Harrington

25 Mar 2021

Conspiracy update: Joe Biden is not real Post-QAnon theories about the President being a bot or dead are emerging

Mary Harrington

22 Mar 2021

Women rebels without a cause

Mary Harrington

17 Mar 2021

Woke or conservative, cancel culture will always exist The phenomenon is not solely a function of the illiberal Left

Mary Harrington

15 Mar 2021

Why aren’t we at it like rabbits?

Mary Harrington

11 Mar 2021

The trans lobby is finally meeting resistance Until now it has been driving policy at the highest levels unopposed

Mary Harrington

09 Mar 2021

The moment the monarchy nearly toppled

Mary Harrington

08 Mar 2021

The woke battle for cultural imperialism

Mary Harrington

04 Mar 2021

Blood on the virtual street at Clubhouse A discussion of 'wokeism' quickly turned into a coup

Mary Harrington

01 Mar 2021

Paying for housework is not a victory for feminism Not everything is a financial transaction

Mary Harrington

26 Feb 2021

Celebrity chefs are past their sell-by date

Mary Harrington

25 Feb 2021

Biden’s Equality Act is not the unifying issue he thinks it is The political move has the potential to radicalise suburban mothers

Mary Harrington

23 Feb 2021

‘Slam poetry’ is all rhyme no reason

Mary Harrington

17 Feb 2021

Slate Star Codex vs NYT is a battle within the same faith The blog controversy is over different versions of the same promised land

Mary Harrington

15 Feb 2021

Will China’s millennials ever rebel?

Mary Harrington

11 Feb 2021

The New York Times’ red-tinted glasses Why is the Grey Lady so strikingly uncritical of China?

Mary Harrington

05 Feb 2021

So you want to be a mermaid?

Mary Harrington

04 Feb 2021

Stop explaining away pervy men as ‘structural sexism’ We need to be honest about today's sexual politics

Mary Harrington

01 Feb 2021

For Clinton feminists, not all women are equal

Mary Harrington

28 Jan 2021

Digital ghosts: the eerie next step in your customised world Microsoft's new patent could immortalise your personality long after death

Mary Harrington

26 Jan 2021

The heroism of heavy metal

Mary Harrington

20 Jan 2021

Why Viktor Orban chooses China over the EU The CCP's imperialism comes with fewer strings attached

Mary Harrington

18 Jan 2021

Who really controls fertility?

Mary Harrington

14 Jan 2021

Do similar gender roles always constitute “progress”? A new paper looked at farming practices in arid regions — with surprising results

Mary Harrington

12 Jan 2021

Whose weird world are we living in?

Mary Harrington

07 Jan 2021

Why did the Chinese Communist Party turn on Jack Ma? A brutal struggle is taking place over where power lies in China's digital economy

Mary Harrington

04 Jan 2021

Don’t pity the pornographers When moral arguments are tied to power, careers are ruined — in both directions

Mary Harrington

01 Jan 2021

Why sexual empowerment screws women

Mary Harrington

30 Dec 2020

Libertarianism never ends well

Mary Harrington

23 Dec 2020

Parenting should be tyrannical

Mary Harrington

17 Dec 2020

The trouble with the ‘intellectual porn star’ Hyper-liberalism has few winners, and Aella is one of them

Mary Harrington

16 Dec 2020

For me, self-identification was a con

Mary Harrington

09 Dec 2020

Deck the halls! Ironic hipster Christianity may save us all Perhaps the new 'Minimalist Nativity' sets represent a staging post back to faith

Mary Harrington

07 Dec 2020

The desperation behind OnlyFans

Mary Harrington

03 Dec 2020

Academics face a moral dilemma Is the highest purpose to promote social justice or academic freedom?

Mary Harrington

30 Nov 2020

In defence of fantasy

Mary Harrington

26 Nov 2020

Memo to Justin Welby: Charity is for the Church, not government Does the Archbishop of Canterbury see no role for a modern CofE?

Mary Harrington

23 Nov 2020

Why sneer at Christmas pudding?

Mary Harrington

19 Nov 2020

There’s something of Picasso about these botched restorations The Spanish statue re-carving reveals more than just a lack of skill

Mary Harrington

16 Nov 2020

London has never been civil

Mary Harrington

13 Nov 2020

The new American empire of anti-imperialism The instinct to evangelise ideologically seems as strong as ever

Mary Harrington

09 Nov 2020

Do orgasms make us weak?

Mary Harrington

05 Nov 2020

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party contradicts itself A core tension exists between reactionary populism and Right-libertarianism

Mary Harrington

02 Nov 2020

Feminists shouldn’t have sex before marriage

Mary Harrington

21 Oct 2020

The West won’t defend Taiwan from China The idea of an 'ethical foreign policy' is dead and buried

Mary Harrington

19 Oct 2020

The tyranny of queer theory

Mary Harrington

15 Oct 2020

Rebels against the marriage ‘market’ There's a surprising interest among the Very Online in old-fashioned matchmaking

Mary Harrington

12 Oct 2020

Prince Harry is royal Kryptonite

Mary Harrington

08 Oct 2020

Pope Francis upsets both sides of the culture war His latest encyclical, ‘Fratelli Tutti’, challenges Left- and Right-wing assumptions

Mary Harrington

05 Oct 2020

Has ‘Long Covid’ left us leaderless?

Mary Harrington

01 Oct 2020

Water shortages? You can bet on it Hedge funds are now looking to turn scarcity into profit

Mary Harrington

28 Sep 2020

How we all became prisoners of gender

Mary Harrington

24 Sep 2020

Don’t treat children like consumer goods 'Commissioning' babies is a worrying trend that must be resisted in the UK

Mary Harrington

21 Sep 2020

Cuties isn’t kiddie porn — it’s tragedy

Mary Harrington

16 Sep 2020

Even tribal Tories are baffled by the Rule of Six The PM can’t see the value of anything that doesn’t contribute to the exchequer

Mary Harrington

15 Sep 2020

What if the feminists had won?

Mary Harrington

14 Sep 2020

Has Boris forgotten our fishing history?

Mary Harrington

10 Sep 2020

Yes, women are suffering during Covid-19 — but it’s men who are dying… The UN Secretary-General is the latest to bring identity politics to the pandemic

Mary Harrington

09 Sep 2020

On euthanasia, old Conservatives are the new radicals Burkean Tories are now the exception, not the rule

Mary Harrington

07 Sep 2020

The commuters are revolting

Mary Harrington

02 Sep 2020

America’s culture war is turning into a petty squabble And invariably, the English-speaking world gets sucked into it

Mary Harrington

01 Sep 2020

England will miss our Church when it’s gone

Mary Harrington

27 Aug 2020

Don’t cancel Rule Britannia… Tweak it Change a few lyrics, but don't let the cultural mavens remove patriotism altogether

Mary Harrington

24 Aug 2020

How sexual empowerment screws women

Mary Harrington

19 Aug 2020

Finally! A religious story that is not about escape 'Inside the Bruderhof' inverts a clichéd liberal trope about breaking free

Mary Harrington

19 Aug 2020

Why Stamford said no to modernity

Mary Harrington

06 Aug 2020