Weekend Essay

Why the US economy beats Europe Big Business is good, actually

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

8 mins

18 Apr 2026 - 12:15am

Weekend Dispatch

Is Bulgaria Putin’s next target?

Michal Kranz

10 mins

18 Apr 2026 - 12:10am


Porn

Spare me Labour’s summer of sex

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


Weekend Dispatch

Is Bulgaria Putin’s next target? He could use energy as a weapon

Michal Kranz

10 mins

18 Apr 2026 - 12:10am


Porn

Spare me Labour’s summer of sex Vibrators can’t teach consent

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


Iran war

When will the Hormuz recession hit? Our buffer is running out

John Rapley

John Rapley

6 mins

16 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


Ideology

National populism has outgrown America Trump is now a liability

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

6 mins

14 Apr 2026 - 12:03am

Budapest

What next for Europe’s postliberals? JD Vance will Americanise their cause

Samuel Rubinstein

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Class

How Salford made modern Britain The dirty old town birthed generations of artists

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:01am


Review

Why contemporary artists worship tech The New Museum envisions a bleak future

Matthew Gasda

Matthew Gasda

5 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Review

In defence of Lena Dunham She understands your body horror

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

16 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


Donald Trump

Welcome to the age of total hate Pulling back from the brink is possible 

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

6 Mar 2026 - 12:00am


Congress

Meet Chicago’s AOC 2.0 She offers punk rock instead of politics

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

7 mins

4 Mar 2026 - 12:10am

Racism

Why I used the N-word in bed  Black men spurn BLM pieties for ‘race play’

Brennan Vickery

Brennan Vickery

7 mins

23 Feb 2026 - 12:00am

Minnesota

Will Stancil’s Revenge of the Nerd The online weenie is the hero the Left needs

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

30 Jan 2026 - 12:00am

Election Dispatch

The Hungarian revolution isn’t what it seems Orbán’s defeat is not a liberal victory

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

5 mins

13 Apr 2026 - 8:12am


Budapest

What next for Europe’s postliberals? JD Vance will Americanise their cause

Samuel Rubinstein

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Review

Why contemporary artists worship tech The New Museum envisions a bleak future

Matthew Gasda

Matthew Gasda

5 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Class

How Salford made modern Britain The dirty old town birthed generations of artists

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:01am


Review

In defence of Lena Dunham She understands your body horror

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

16 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

War

The Pope versus the President Conservative Catholics face a choice

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

10 mins

16 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Our Mission

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

Mission Statement
Democrats

Inside the #MeToo unravelling of Eric Swalwell His staffers turned on him

William Liang

William Liang

6 mins

12 Apr 2026 - 11:59pm


Looksmaxxing

Clavicular: the digital Dorian Gray He is an ugly cipher for our time

Cosmo Adair

Cosmo Adair

6 mins

16 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Data Centres

The grey belt was made for Big Tech But Labour can’t explain why

Greg Noone

Greg Noone

8 mins

15 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


Education

How red states are killing college Anti-DEI has created a red-tape nightmare

Richard A. Greenwald

Richard A. Greenwald

7 mins

14 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Islam

What Ireland teaches us about Iran Martyrdom turns suffering into strength

Malise Ruthven

Malise Ruthven

8 mins

16 Apr 2026 - 12:01am

Gambling

Is Polymarket a threat to democracy? The money is simply too good

John Masko

John Masko

8 mins

13 Apr 2026 - 12:01am

Weekend Review

How to defy dictatorship Anatoly Marienhof saw through Soviet communism

William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann

6 mins

12 Apr 2026 - 11:59pm


Literature

On astonishment and angels Writers must learn to fly backwards

David Keenan

David Keenan

5 mins

10 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Dispatch

Inside Charleston’s craft renaissance Young artisans are defying AI

Farahn Morgan

Farahn Morgan

8 mins

9 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


Shipping

Will I ever escape the Strait of Hormuz? Oceans are now battlefields

Anonymous Seafarer

Anonymous Seafarer

5 mins

15 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Technology

Will AI kill off populism? Conspiracy theorists are in the firing line

Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania

7 mins

8 Apr 2026 - 12:04am

Weekend Dispatch

Is this the end of Viktor Orbán? His politics will outlast him

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

11 mins

11 Apr 2026 - 12:10am


Academic wars

Why the ‘heterodox’ university failed Contrarianism became a new conformity

Edmund King and Thomas Prosser

Edmund King and Thomas Prosser

9 mins

7 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Religion

Can we have the good without Good Friday? ‘The Exorcist’ captures our predicament

Susan Pickard

Susan Pickard

6 mins

3 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


creativity

The great schizo-autist war Is your brain-type ‘Helen DeWitt’?

Justin Murphy

Justin Murphy

8 mins

15 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Ethics

Warrior justice comes for Iran Trump’s war satisfies martial virtue

Justin Lee

Justin Lee

5 mins

2 Apr 2026 - 12:04am

Weekend essay

Why America is still winning It is building a new Suez in the stars

Pippa Malmgren

Pippa Malmgren

11 mins

11 Apr 2026 - 12:08am


Space

Artemis mission reeks of Musk Don’t cheer for the Nasa mission

Gerard DeGroot

Gerard DeGroot

5 mins

1 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Protests

How Trump saved the Left His hubris reawakened the opposition

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

1 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


Inquiry

Axel Rudakubana and the moral rot of the state The Southport inquiry exposes buck-passing bureaucrats

Adam King

Adam King

5 mins

14 Apr 2026 - 9:43am

Middle East

The Boomer-uncle war Trump has no strategy beyond spectacle

Heather Penatzer

Heather Penatzer

5 mins

31 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

Authoritarianism

Stop worshipping Singapore The Right is wrong about Lee Kuan Yew

Muzainy Shahiefisally

Muzainy Shahiefisally

7 mins

11 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


Gender Wars

Can orgies solve the fertility crisis? Bronze Age Pervert is half right

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

10 mins

30 Mar 2026 - 12:10am

Dispatch

Is Barrow still Britain’s unhappiest town? New submarines offer a lifeboat

Christopher de Bellaigue

Christopher de Bellaigue

9 mins

27 Mar 2026 - 12:00am


Occupation

Israel’s death penalty shame Real justice isn’t joyful

Omer Bartov

Omer Bartov

6 mins

14 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

The Left

How Democrats win on foreign policy America is shifting Left on Israel and Iran 

Ross Barkan

Ross Barkan

5 mins

25 Mar 2026 - 11:46pm

Insanity

Does Kanye deserve our forgiveness? Shame is a vanishing emotion

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

10 Apr 2026 - 12:04am


War

Bibi’s ‘existential’ obsession Iran blinded him to closer threats

Amir Tibon

Amir Tibon

7 mins

25 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

The Left

Graham Platner, gentry liberal The Maine progressive struggles with workers

James Billot

James Billot

5 mins

24 Mar 2026 - 12:00am


Iran war

The Middle East’s new power brokers Pakistan has supplanted Europe

Lily Lynch

Lily Lynch

8 mins

13 Apr 2026 - 12:03am

Atlanticism

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

Sophie Heawood

Sophie Heawood

6 mins

23 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

One nation

Australian ethnopolitics is back Pauline Hanson’s stunts are finding an audience

Julie Szego

Julie Szego

8 mins

20 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

State Visit

Will Nigeria steal Britain’s crown? We need friends in an unstable world

Remi Adekoya

Remi Adekoya

6 mins

19 Mar 2026 - 12:00am


Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton’s enchanting provincialism ‘The Faraway Tree’ is a paean to the countryside

Samuel Rubinstein

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

13 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Fertility

The professor who wanted mass sterilisations Paul Ehrlich’s anti-humanism had calamitous consequences

Elliot Haspel

Elliot Haspel

5 mins

18 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

evolution

Why humans dream of sheep We are not a species apart

Michael Bond

Michael Bond

5 mins

17 Mar 2026 - 12:00am


Education

AI is a gift to my students Professors spurn it out of snobbery

Susan Pickard

Susan Pickard

7 mins

16 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

Nuclear power

The world has got uranium poisoning Nuclear power is no panacea

Tom Zoellner

Tom Zoellner

6 mins

10 Apr 2026 - 12:02am


Culture Wars

In defence of Chalamet-ism He’s forging a new path to masculinity

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

13 Mar 2026 - 12:10am