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

Fanatics

JK Rowling is reaping the Potter whirlwind

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

12 Aug 2026 - 12:02am


Cambridge

Blame Jesus for Jason Arday

George Owers

6 mins

12 Aug 2026 - 12:01am


Fanatics

JK Rowling is reaping the Potter whirlwind Millennials absorbed Harry Potter's childish morality

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

12 Aug 2026 - 12:02am


Cambridge

Blame Jesus for Jason Arday His Cambridge college preaches the managerialist gospel

George Owers

6 mins

12 Aug 2026 - 12:01am


Jackboots

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

Ari Hoffman

Ari Hoffman

6 mins

12 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

Fanatics

JK Rowling is reaping the Potter whirlwind Millennials absorbed Harry Potter's childish morality

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

12 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

Cambridge

Blame Jesus for Jason Arday His Cambridge college preaches the managerialist gospel

George Owers

George Owers

6 mins

12 Aug 2026 - 12:01am


Jackboots

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

Ari Hoffman

Ari Hoffman

6 mins

12 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

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


Jackboots

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

Ari Hoffman

Ari Hoffman

6 mins

12 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


The Left

‘Woke One’ derailed my life AOC can’t laugh off its excesses

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

11 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

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

Weekend Spotlight

The chew toy that ate my small business American disability law has gone terribly wrong

Annie Grossman

Annie Grossman

9 mins

8 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


The Left

‘Woke One’ derailed my life AOC can’t laugh off its excesses

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

11 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

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

Low-trust society

Can Britain survive its petty-crime wave? Chaos follows complacency

Wessie du Toit

Wessie du Toit

8 mins

11 Aug 2026 - 12:02am


Polarisation

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

James Billot

James Billot

7 mins

6 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

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

Jason Arday: a question of academic standards What was his obscurantism hiding?

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

4 mins

8 Aug 2026 - 12:02am


Iran War

Somali pirates are back Navies are distracted by Hormuz

Rose George

Rose George

6 mins

10 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

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


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

Big business

Malta’s warning for the West Globalisation is sinking the island nation

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

8 mins

10 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

Queenagers

The twilight of the ladyboss Losing status hurts

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

7 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


Weekend Essay

Watching Trump’s Apocalypse Americans are mere spectators

David Thomson

David Thomson

7 mins

8 Aug 2026 - 12:03am

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

Politics

How Europe conquered Hungary Liberal authoritarianism is on the move

Thomas Fazi

Thomas Fazi

8 mins

6 Aug 2026 - 12:03am


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


Weekend Spotlight

The chew toy that ate my small business American disability law has gone terribly wrong

Annie Grossman

Annie Grossman

9 mins

8 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

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

Media

The slow death of Substack The platform is killing journalism

Leighton Woodhouse

Leighton Woodhouse

6 mins

5 Aug 2026 - 12:03am


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


Operation Midas

How corruption could bring down Zelensky A series of scandals threatens his authority

Mark Hollingsworth

Mark Hollingsworth

7 mins

7 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

Immigration

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

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

7 mins

23 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

The Right

Why Farage will vanquish Lowe Reform’s strengths lie in the suburbs

Samuel Rubinstein

Samuel Rubinstein

7 mins

4 Aug 2026 - 12:03am


Progressives

Who’s afraid of the Abdul bros? Centrist Dems use woke tropes against the Left — again

Zaid Jilani

Zaid Jilani

6 mins

22 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

The Far Right

The poverty of white nationalism Even smarter advocates fail the logic test

Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania

8 mins

21 Jul 2026 - 4:20am


Mathematics

Bach’s lesson for the AI age Perfection isn’t the point

Graeme Archer

Graeme Archer

5 mins

7 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Aesthetics

How Ferrari lost its sex appeal Sports cars have been enshittified

Ed Wiseman

Ed Wiseman

8 mins

20 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

drought

Dunwich is enchanted England Suffolk is a place of fire and fairies

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

6 mins

3 Aug 2026 - 12:03am


Literature

A novelist’s dark portrait of Natalie Portman Rachel Cusk’s new book mines the actress’s life

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

6 mins

17 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

Murder Mystery

Why true crime isn’t real Alex Murdaugh isn’t a compelling killer

Kat Rosenfield

Kat Rosenfield

6 mins

16 Jul 2026 - 12:01am


Big tech

Must data centres be so ugly? Their aesthetics signal contempt

Tom Ough

Tom Ough

7 mins

6 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

Big Tech

How passwords stole my sanity Digital bureaucracy has become ‘The Tangle’

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

8 mins

16 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

Weekend Analysis

Did MAGA create the Ceuta crisis? Morocco is cosying up to Trump

Juan David Rojas

Juan David Rojas

5 mins

1 Aug 2026 - 12:03am


New York City

My night in ‘Mamdani-Ville’ The mayor fights a homeless camp — very gently

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

5 mins

15 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

Socialism

AOC’s Leftist headache Hardliners see her as a sellout

Ross Barkan

Ross Barkan

6 mins

14 Jul 2026 - 12:00am


Welfare State

Britain’s social care selfishness Society has abandoned the elderly

Madeleine Bunting

Madeleine Bunting

7 mins

6 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Religion

Are influencers ruining the Camino de Santiago? The pilgrimage isn’t intended to be self-help

Chloe Hoyle

Chloe Hoyle

9 mins

14 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

Economics

Will the queue bring down Putin? Russia’s oil crisis threatens the regime

Seva Gunitsky

Seva Gunitsky

5 mins

31 Jul 2026 - 12:03am


Obituary

The triumph of Lindsey Graham Populists should learn from the late senator

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

4 mins

12 Jul 2026 - 6:06pm

Gen Z

The end of going out New York has become boring and algorithmic

Matthew Gasda

Matthew Gasda

5 mins

11 Jul 2026 - 12:00am


Academia

Can Cambridge weather the Arday storm? Whatever happened to serious scholarship?

Paul Sagar

Paul Sagar

6 mins

5 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

Finance

The Trump Accounts’ false promise The government is stealing from the crib

Richard A. Greenwald

Richard A. Greenwald

8 mins

10 Jul 2026 - 12:00am