Weekend Spotlight

The red telephone box can save Britain Modern design must borrow from the past

Louis Elton

Louis Elton

8 mins

22 Aug 2026 - 12:04am

Iran war

Why America is running out of missiles Trump has compounded America’s decline

Edward Luttwak

Edward Luttwak

6 mins

21 Aug 2026 - 12:02am


Weekend Essay

The collapse of the postwar order Realities on democracy and immigration will end it

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

10 mins

22 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

deep history

The sacred art of graffiti On cave drawings, teenage vandals and future ruins

David Keenan

David Keenan

6 mins

21 Aug 2026 - 10:12am


Weekend Essay

The collapse of the postwar order Realities on democracy and immigration will end it

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

10 mins

22 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


The Americas

Will Mexico be the next front in World War III? The forever-war logic demands it

Juan David Rojas

Juan David Rojas

7 mins

19 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Healthcare

My health insurer wants cancer to win It won’t let a drug manufacturer help with my expenses

Joel Looper

Joel Looper

7 mins

18 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Weekend Essay

How to Nixonmaxx the right way Ditch his thuggery, pick up his realism

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

12 mins

15 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Weekend dispatch

Inside the Albanian revolution The cult of Edi Rama is unravelling

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

17 mins

15 Aug 2026 - 12:05am


Weekend Spotlight

The red telephone box can save Britain Modern design must borrow from the past

Louis Elton

Louis Elton

8 mins

22 Aug 2026 - 12:04am

Weekend Essay

The collapse of the postwar order Realities on democracy and immigration will end it

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

10 mins

22 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Iran war

Why America is running out of missiles Trump has compounded America’s decline

Edward Luttwak

Edward Luttwak

6 mins

21 Aug 2026 - 12:02am


deep history

The sacred art of graffiti On cave drawings, teenage vandals and future ruins

David Keenan

David Keenan

6 mins

21 Aug 2026 - 10:12am

Cambridge

The Jason Arday delusion Scapegoating is punitive and crass

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

21 Aug 2026 - 12:04am

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
weekend essay

Eric Hobsbawm’s age of contradictions His vision of emancipation was flawed

John Merrick

John Merrick

14 mins

15 Aug 2026 - 12:02am


Post-Literacy

The Great Dumb-Down is here The end of reading heralds an era of slop politics

Paul Sagar

Paul Sagar

7 mins

21 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

MAGA

America’s unstoppable Hispanic future Expansionist policies have a way of rebounding  

Antonio de Loera-Brust

Antonio de Loera-Brust

7 mins

20 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


Literature

The Japanese crime wave sweeping Britain Detective stories reflect society’s doom

Christopher Harding

Christopher Harding

6 mins

19 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Dispatch

Meet the Leftist radicals taking on Meloni Turin has become a battlefield

Tobias Jones

Tobias Jones

10 mins

20 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

Healthcare

My health insurer wants cancer to win It won’t let a drug manufacturer help with my expenses

Joel Looper

Joel Looper

7 mins

18 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

heatwave

My climate war burnout It’s time to decarbonise the discourse

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

14 Aug 2026 - 12:04am


Andy Burnham

Why we tolerate homelessness Familiarity has bred resignation

Darren McGarvey

Darren McGarvey

5 mins

17 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Weekend Essay

How to Nixonmaxx the right way Ditch his thuggery, pick up his realism

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

12 mins

15 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


Society

The invasion of the delivery robots Big Tech is coming for our pavements

Ed Wiseman

Ed Wiseman

6 mins

20 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Activism

Why ‘responsible’ liberals coddle the irresponsible It’s geopolitics all the way down

Nikos Mohammadi

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

14 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Exclusive

We need to talk about Fight Club My book gave lost boys a father figure

Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk

7 mins

13 Aug 2026 - 12:04am


War

Welcome to Fortress Iran Mojtaba Khamenei is building a hardened, confrontational state

Arta Moeini

Arta Moeini

7 mins

13 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Jackboots

Why fashion falls for fascists Anna Wintour shouldn’t honour John Galliano

Ari Hoffman

Ari Hoffman

6 mins

12 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


Girlboss

The sexless lives of millennial feminists A dream has been mis-sold

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

4 mins

19 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

Silicon Valley

How France became a big-tech colony Data centres won’t restore sovereignty

Harrison Stetler

Harrison Stetler

6 mins

11 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Big Tech

The Odyssey as AI allegory Agamemnon’s heirs are in Silicon Valley

Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

8 mins

12 Aug 2026 - 12:04am


Ideas

The Right’s favourite Left radical Christopher Lasch’s romanticism was easy to assimilate

Richard A. Greenwald

Richard A. Greenwald

7 mins

10 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Antisemitism

New York’s war on its Jews Mamdani abets the violence

Joel Kotkin

Joel Kotkin

5 mins

7 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


The Americas

Will Mexico be the next front in World War III? The forever-war logic demands it

Juan David Rojas

Juan David Rojas

7 mins

19 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Polarisation

Meet America’s MAGA exiles Prepare to lose your friends and family

James Billot

James Billot

7 mins

6 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Higher Education

Don’t let grifters kill the university Academia remains an engine of prosperity

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

6 mins

11 Aug 2026 - 12:03am


The Left

The meaning of Abdul El-Sayed’s triumph Organic support for Israel is fading

Ross Barkan

Ross Barkan

5 mins

5 Aug 2026 - 3:03pm

The Right

How MAGA became the war party Fighting ‘Third Worldism’ substituted for real populism

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

5 mins

5 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


Politics

Hands off the constitution, Andy Meddling would trigger acrimony

Tim Bale

Tim Bale

6 mins

18 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Education

Burnham should beware dumbing down His vocational scheme is a bad idea

Daisy Christodoulou

Daisy Christodoulou

8 mins

4 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Agriculture

Drought is pushing England to the brink Yields — and morale — are tumbling

James Rebanks

James Rebanks

6 mins

10 Aug 2026 - 12:03am


Dispatch

How to survive in a Louisiana swamp Cajun culture is vanishing from the bayou

Peter Santenello

Peter Santenello

12 mins

3 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Accusation Culture

A ‘grooming’ crisis at the ICC The Karim Khan affair exposes the farce of international law

Michael Tracey

Michael Tracey

10 mins

1 Aug 2026 - 12:06am


Latin America

Mario Vargas Llosa’s soap-opera life His politics and his writing lacked substance

Nick Burns

Nick Burns

9 mins

18 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Health

We are all Bryan Johnson now His rejection of mortality is going mainstream

Matthew Gasda

Matthew Gasda

6 mins

31 Jul 2026 - 12:13am

Racecraft

The abuse of a black teen’s death Nolan Wells’s drowning is the latest ‘reckoning’

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

8 mins

30 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

Environment

Lies Al Gore told me His climate film goaded my generation into a cult

Juan David Rojas

Juan David Rojas

7 mins

29 Jul 2026 - 12:00am


War

Will the Gulfies dump Trump? A power vacuum threatens the Middle East

Reuel Marc Gerecht

Reuel Marc Gerecht

6 mins

17 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

Law and order

The Left’s war on anti-crime tech Progressive paranoia costs lives

Alicia Nieves

Alicia Nieves

6 mins

28 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

communism

Third-Worldism has corrupted America Cuba was the tip of the spear

John Masko

John Masko

7 mins

27 Jul 2026 - 12:00am


Progressives

The Democrats’ soul-healer Chris Murphy brings Left conservatism to America

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

7 mins

24 Jul 2026 - 12:47am

Faith

The Russian Church’s war on Europe Putin is armed with missiles and incense

Lucy Ash

Lucy Ash

8 mins

17 Aug 2026 - 12:01am


Immigration

Serfdom, Republican-style Why is the GOP pushing more unfree foreign labor?

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

7 mins

23 Jul 2026 - 12:00am