Big Tech

The next financial crash: a scenario AI debt could spark a chain reaction

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

7 Sep 2026 - 12:03am

Conference

Reform’s struggle to be serious

Felix Pope

9 mins

7 Sep 2026 - 12:02am


Extremism

Inside Afghanistan’s terror schools

Ruchi Kumar

5 mins

7 Sep 2026 - 12:01am


Conference

Reform’s struggle to be serious Farage is running out of second chances

Felix Pope

9 mins

7 Sep 2026 - 12:02am


Extremism

Inside Afghanistan’s terror schools The Taliban is grooming a new generation of jihadis

Ruchi Kumar

5 mins

7 Sep 2026 - 12:01am


Norman Yoke

Who owns the Bayeux Tapestry? It’s embroidered countless ideologies

Julian Jackson

Julian Jackson

7 mins

7 Sep 2026 - 12:00am


Weekend Essay

9/11 could happen again America is still hated

William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann

11 mins

5 Sep 2026 - 12:05am

Conference

Reform’s struggle to be serious Farage is running out of second chances

Felix Pope

Felix Pope

9 mins

7 Sep 2026 - 12:02am

Extremism

Inside Afghanistan’s terror schools The Taliban is grooming a new generation of jihadis

Ruchi Kumar

Ruchi Kumar

5 mins

7 Sep 2026 - 12:01am


Norman Yoke

Who owns the Bayeux Tapestry? It’s embroidered countless ideologies

Julian Jackson

Julian Jackson

7 mins

7 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

Demography

A childless world changes everything Societies ossify without youthful enthusiasm

Greg Noone

Greg Noone

6 mins

4 Sep 2026 - 12:00am


The Right

Samuel Samson: Team Trump’s civilisation defender The administration’s ugly realities belie his ideals

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

12 mins

3 Sep 2026 - 12:00am


Obituary

How Wendell Berry saved my life His dream of local liberty calls us to political action

Patrick Deneen

Patrick Deneen

11 mins

2 Sep 2026 - 5:19am

Economy

America’s brain-rotting socialism debate All modern economies are mixed

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

9 mins

1 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

Cancel Culture 2.0

Hell is other Leftists Progressives waste energy destroying each other

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

6 mins

31 Aug 2026 - 6:02pm

Weekend Health

Why we can’t get off Freud’s couch Brain science is circling back to his talking cure

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

15 mins

5 Sep 2026 - 12:03am


Saxony-Anhalt

The plot to stop the AfD Germany’s firewall is crumbling in Saxony-Anhalt

Thomas Fazi

Thomas Fazi

9 mins

4 Sep 2026 - 12:02am

The Right

Samuel Samson: Team Trump’s civilisation defender The administration’s ugly realities belie his ideals

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

12 mins

3 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

9/11

How Shakespeare explains the Taliban ‘The Tempest’ sheds light on Afghanistan

Malise Ruthven

Malise Ruthven

11 mins

4 Sep 2026 - 12:02am


Economy

America’s brain-rotting socialism debate All modern economies are mixed

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

9 mins

1 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

Obituary

How Wendell Berry saved my life His dream of local liberty calls us to political action

Patrick Deneen

Patrick Deneen

11 mins

2 Sep 2026 - 5:19am

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 analysis

Putin: the blind autocrat His cronies have kept him in the dark

Seva Gunitsky

Seva Gunitsky

5 mins

5 Sep 2026 - 12:02am


Conquest

How Domesday made modern England The Norman book records an apartheid state

Max Adams

Max Adams

8 mins

3 Sep 2026 - 12:03am

Public Health

The great Covid reckoning  It’s essential to stopping the next pandemic 

Christian Parenti

Christian Parenti

8 mins

28 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


Film

The summer of Idiossey Why are we still talking about this stupid flim?

Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer

5 mins

31 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Climate change

Nepal’s clean energy curse It is the poor in harm’s way

Pratinav Anil

Pratinav Anil

7 mins

3 Sep 2026 - 12:03am

Death

Why corpses shouldn’t be sacred Beneath our reverence lies hostility

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

27 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Weekend Spotlight

The Gloria Steinem I knew She rejected tick-box feminism

Julie Bindel

Julie Bindel

4 mins

5 Sep 2026 - 12:00am


The Right

How Miami Third Worldism swallowed MAGA Exiled hawks refuse to assimilate

Juan David Rojas

Juan David Rojas

8 mins

26 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Political Economy

The madness of Trump’s Canada trade war He should be targeting China, not allies

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

4 mins

25 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


9/11 Anniversary

The man who made bin Laden Abu Musab al-Suri trailblazed the global jihad

Tam Hussein

Tam Hussein

6 mins

2 Sep 2026 - 12:02am

Sex

The return of the foot fetish The ‘barefoot shoe’ channels Gen Z’s favourite kink

Nikos Mohammadi

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

24 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

AI

Why universities embrace cheats Outcomes are more important than education

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

4 Sep 2026 - 12:04am


Weekend Essay

The collapse of the postwar order We can’t evade reality forever

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


Science

AI is Trump’s Manhattan Project The ‘Genesis Mission’ will start a scientific revolution

Pippa Malmgren

Pippa Malmgren

8 mins

2 Sep 2026 - 12:01am

Cambridge

The Jason Arday delusion Scapegoating is punitive and crass

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

21 Aug 2026 - 12:04am

Economy

Get ready for the Trump Slump Iran strikes could burst the AI bubble

John Rapley

John Rapley

6 mins

3 Sep 2026 - 12:03am


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


Alt-Right

Milo Yiannopoulos’ horrible homecoming Will he corrupt British politics?

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

7 mins

1 Sep 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

Westminster

Andy Burnham meets reality His radical agenda will soon be shelved

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

5 mins

2 Sep 2026 - 12:03am


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


dispatch

Could the Middlesbrough crime spree spread? Britain’s towns are increasingly dysfunctional

Felix Pope

Felix Pope

9 mins

1 Sep 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

Geopolitics

How the Euro elite helps Trump They are more obedient than the Right

Samuel Rubinstein

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

1 Sep 2026 - 12:03am


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


Cancel Culture 2.0

Hell is other Leftists Progressives waste energy destroying each other

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

6 mins

31 Aug 2026 - 6:02pm

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

Ukraine war

The case for de-escalation with Russia America is leading the way

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

31 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


review

Britain has a leadership fetish Great men are ruled by animal instincts

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

7 mins

31 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

Five years on

Inside the new Afghanistan Welcome to medieval modernity

David Patrikarakos

David Patrikarakos

11 mins

30 Aug 2026 - 12:05am


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


Meta

Mark Zuckerberg got what he deserved The time-thief’s monopoly must end

Richard Godwin

Richard Godwin

8 mins

28 Aug 2026 - 12:03am

Education

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

Daisy Christodoulou

Daisy Christodoulou

8 mins

4 Aug 2026 - 12:01am