Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington is a contributing editor at UnHerd.

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Why it’s time to take ‘wokeness’ seriously

Mary Harrington

30 Jul 2020

Noblesse oblige for the woke generation These days it’s not enough simply to have privilege: you have to spread it about

Mary Harrington

28 Jul 2020

Imagine a world without contraception

Mary Harrington

23 Jul 2020

Boris truthers are the real giant babies The latest conspiracy theories have left rationality behind completely

Mary Harrington

20 Jul 2020

The world according to LARP

Mary Harrington

15 Jul 2020

The almost-comical tale of Lady A It's hard to think of a more evocative example of woke capital at work...

Mary Harrington

13 Jul 2020

We’d never build another Albert Hall

Mary Harrington

09 Jul 2020

Robots aren’t the cure for lockdown isolation My only child misses her friends — robots like Moxie are not the answer

Mary Harrington

06 Jul 2020

Blame the parents for this angry activism

Mary Harrington

02 Jul 2020

The BLM protests are the perfect Dionysiac moment The Greek god revelled in the primal wildness of the mob

Mary Harrington

01 Jul 2020

Stranded seafarers could trigger a national food crisis An under-reported Covid effect is threatening global supply chains

Mary Harrington

26 Jun 2020

Incels could become the new Vikings

Mary Harrington

25 Jun 2020

Watermelons won’t save the planet Socialism cloaked in environmentalism will not deliver a sustainable future

Mary Harrington

20 Jun 2020

The bloody truth about animals

Mary Harrington

18 Jun 2020

After Covid, a demographic crisis awaits The virus has revealed the acute vulnerability of ageing populations

Mary Harrington

13 Jun 2020

Abolishing the police is a cop out

Mary Harrington

11 Jun 2020

Descending into the underworld This week's long read pick is a classic essay from writer Annie Dillard

Mary Harrington

06 Jun 2020

What Antifa and the alt-Right have in common

Mary Harrington

04 Jun 2020

How Brooklyn Hipsterdom disintegrated under lockdown A Bushwick houseshare looked like an urban idyll — until Covid struck

Mary Harrington

30 May 2020

Is China trolling the West?

Mary Harrington

28 May 2020

A newer, better version of the Free Speech Union? The Campaign for Common Sense is launching a fresh assault on cancel culture

Mary Harrington

26 May 2020

China’s amour propre has become its tragic flaw Western elites won't turn a blind eye to the HK security law

Mary Harrington

22 May 2020

Lockdown shattered my parental bond

Mary Harrington

21 May 2020

Does blank slateism make us more intolerant? That's the implication of a new research paper on polarisation

Mary Harrington

19 May 2020

Who was the real Oliver Cromwell? The Lord Protector remains an uneasy figure in English history even to this day

Mary Harrington

16 May 2020

The stories our footpaths tell

Mary Harrington

14 May 2020

Memo to the Government: we don’t all live in zones 1 to 4 For most people, the office isn't a cycle-ride away

Mary Harrington

12 May 2020

Not every death is a tragedy

Mary Harrington

08 May 2020

The hidden culture war behind Michael Gove’s bookshelf Both sides in this stupid argument are barking up the wrong tree

Mary Harrington

05 May 2020

Is anorexia wired into our moral foundations? Modern day eating disorders might share the same roots as medieval asceticism

Mary Harrington

27 Apr 2020

So you want to quit the rat race

Mary Harrington

23 Apr 2020

Should home schooling be banned? A law professor argues that it abandons children ideologically

Mary Harrington

21 Apr 2020

How royal mistresses beefed in the 17th century Without Twitter, Charles II's lovers had to get creative

Mary Harrington

18 Apr 2020

Who cares about carers?

Mary Harrington

16 Apr 2020

The West is becoming like China, not the other way round Formerly free-market nations are turning to state capitalism in reponse to the crisis

Mary Harrington

15 Apr 2020

Teach children knowledge — not critical thinking Without background information of a topic, comprehension will be limited even for the most able reader

Mary Harrington

11 Apr 2020

London’s millennials have been conned

Mary Harrington

09 Apr 2020

Finally! The government recognises childcare as work New rules say that people can be furloughed if they can't work due to caring responsibilities

Mary Harrington

08 Apr 2020

What is the future for America Inc.? The Covid pandemic has thrown this question into sharp focus

Mary Harrington

04 Apr 2020

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

Mary Harrington

02 Apr 2020

The culture wars are far from over Covid-19 marks a ceasefire, not anything like an end

Mary Harrington

01 Apr 2020

What the West can learn from China East Asian systems of hierarchy have wisdom in them

Mary Harrington

28 Mar 2020

Stay-at-home mums are ready for lockdown

Mary Harrington

25 Mar 2020

Remembering Albert Uderzo, illustrator of the Asterix books The books were a central part of my childhood and made me feel genuinely European

Mary Harrington

24 Mar 2020

How do we face human extinction? A deadly pandemic has thrown this question into sharp focus

Mary Harrington

21 Mar 2020

Get off social media and help!

Mary Harrington

19 Mar 2020

The strange experience of watching Schrödinger’s Half Marathon The contrast between my planned and actual weekends caught me in two worlds

Mary Harrington

17 Mar 2020

The extraordinary tale of a monarch who is above the law An intervention in the case of Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum reveals the political limits to our legal system

Mary Harrington

14 Mar 2020

Why aren’t women having more babies?

Mary Harrington

13 Mar 2020

What Germany gets wrong about assisted dying The latest court ruling puts too much onus on the individual

Mary Harrington

10 Mar 2020

Neo-Nazis and Jihadis share the same enemy A long read reveals the symbiosis between neo-Nazi and Islamist movements in the UK and beyond

Mary Harrington

07 Mar 2020

Farming is too important for Britain to be ‘like Singapore’ An economist's leaked remarks reveal a lack of understanding into the industry's social value

Mary Harrington

03 Mar 2020

Why are children’s books so ugly?

Mary Harrington

03 Mar 2020

Trouble in Paradise: The dark underbelly of the Maldives This holiday fantasyland disguises a great deal of internal strife

Mary Harrington

29 Feb 2020

Gays and lesbians are abandoning the LGBTQIAA+ movement Lesbian vlogger Arielle Scarcella is joining other gay, lesbian and bi people in leaving the group

Mary Harrington

25 Feb 2020

The post-liberalism of Michel Houellebecq Christopher Caldwell misreads the author's critique of liberalism

Mary Harrington

22 Feb 2020

Hate crime is the new blasphemy

Mary Harrington

20 Feb 2020

Without God, it’s harder to defend against eugenics With no religious authority, we lack the language to reject moral atrocities like human selection

Mary Harrington

17 Feb 2020

America’s conservatives are turning radical Two prominent writers are calling for a quiet revolution

Mary Harrington

15 Feb 2020

‘Cultural Christian’ is an empty idea

Mary Harrington

13 Feb 2020

Corinthian columns won’t fix Milton Keynes Neoclassical architecture isn't a solution in of itself

Mary Harrington

10 Feb 2020

The voice of manual work in the world of letters Bud Smith's account of working in an oil refinery shows how both worlds view the other as more authentic

Mary Harrington

08 Feb 2020

As long as universities are businesses, forget about free speech The government's opening salvo in the culture wars ignores the bigger problem

Mary Harrington

07 Feb 2020

There’s no such thing as a green vegan

Mary Harrington

06 Feb 2020

It’s time for the church to go green Lent is the perfect opportunity for Christians to reclaim environmentalism

Mary Harrington

05 Feb 2020

The Google Maps hack underlines our powerlessness It is a metaphor for the defeatism of postmodernism

Mary Harrington

03 Feb 2020

This piece about the 1990s rave scene takes me back Today's rave revisionism points to a culture in decline

Mary Harrington

01 Feb 2020

Why tradwives aren’t trad enough

Mary Harrington

30 Jan 2020

Memo to the heterosexual heterophobe: why not try chastity? The biggest taboo in contemporary sexual politics is simply going without

Mary Harrington

29 Jan 2020

Going vegan will not save the planet The system of resource extraction remains environmentally destructive

Mary Harrington

25 Jan 2020

Why the mummy wars are really class wars

Mary Harrington

23 Jan 2020

Two cheers for the Welsh smacking ban The ruling raises questions about where parental authority should give way to the state

Mary Harrington

22 Jan 2020

The new ‘Orthodox Conservatives’ are missing a trick A new youth pressure group has set out its core values, but there are some glaring omissions

Mary Harrington

20 Jan 2020

How Jesuit missionaries invented spin The cultural legacy of 16th and 17th century missionaries in Brazil and India is still with us today

Mary Harrington

18 Jan 2020

Harry and Meghan shouldn’t turn their royalty into royalties

Mary Harrington

16 Jan 2020

Amazon’s predatory tactics spread to India The company's expansion threatens the livelihood of ordinary people

Mary Harrington

14 Jan 2020

A road trip into the spirit world A Cain and Abel tale of fraternal tension

Mary Harrington

11 Jan 2020

Conservatives, stop kidding yourselves about ‘viewpoint diversity’ It is an underdog argument deployed by the losing side

Mary Harrington

10 Jan 2020

John Clare, poet of the Somewheres

Mary Harrington

09 Jan 2020

Can churches solve Britain’s age segregation problem? They provide one of the few opportunities for different generations to mix

Mary Harrington

08 Jan 2020

Studying Classics shouldn’t be an elite pursuit People forget the long tradition of working class study of the Classics

Mary Harrington

04 Jan 2020

The cost of liberal economics

Mary Harrington

01 Jan 2020

The top 5 climbers and fallers in the world of ideas From trade wars to identity politics, the 2010s was an interesting decade...

Mary Harrington

31 Dec 2019

Lessons from 2018: the year of uncivil society

Mary Harrington

26 Dec 2019

How motherhood put an end to my liberalism

Mary Harrington

25 Dec 2019

Leave your echo chambers this Christmas Many of us have lost the habit of navigating political differences

Mary Harrington

24 Dec 2019

The dark side of the communitarian idyll What drives people to religious withdrawal in contemporary individualistic America?

Mary Harrington

21 Dec 2019

Judges are on a collision course with the Church A legal ruling has exposed a battle between Britain's two value systems

Mary Harrington

19 Dec 2019

Is patriotism racism in disguise?

Mary Harrington

19 Dec 2019

The danger ahead for Boris Johnson

Mary Harrington

13 Dec 2019

Outside London, Giles, it really isn’t that bad It's harder to have a political argument with someone in a small town like mine

Mary Harrington

12 Dec 2019

South Korean women go on strike — and who can blame them? The new 'Four Nos' Movement says ‘No’ to dating, sex, marriage and child-rearing

Mary Harrington

10 Dec 2019

Competing visions for our brave, new intangible world Two articles point to some of the thorniest issues we face in the networked age

Mary Harrington

07 Dec 2019

Conservatives can be politically correct too The Right favours groups they would prefer to talk about kindly rather than coarsely

Mary Harrington

03 Dec 2019

Who gains from the great university scam?

Mary Harrington

02 Dec 2019

How can we find meaning in bullshit jobs? Jonah Galeota-Sprung finds an inherent tension in the social role of work

Mary Harrington

30 Nov 2019

Is America losing the war on misery? More Americans are dying 'deaths of despair' through drug or alcohol abuse

Mary Harrington

28 Nov 2019

GPS “crop circles” point to a weird data future This story from MIT Technology Review reveals a new kind of big data crime

Mary Harrington

23 Nov 2019

Iran shows the danger of a nationalised internet The shutdown should make supporters of Labour's policy think again

Mary Harrington

19 Nov 2019