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Iran war

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

Lily Lynch

Lily Lynch

8 mins

13 Apr 2026 - 12:03am

Gambling

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

John Masko

John Masko

8 mins

13 Apr 2026 - 12:02am


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


Gambling

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

John Masko

John Masko

8 mins

13 Apr 2026 - 12:02am


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


Democrats

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

William Liang

William Liang

6 mins

13 Apr 2026 - 12:12am


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

Gambling

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

John Masko

John Masko

8 mins

13 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

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


Democrats

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

William Liang

William Liang

6 mins

13 Apr 2026 - 12:12am

Literature

On astonishment and angels Writers must learn to fly backwards

David Keenan

David Keenan

5 mins

10 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

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


Nuclear power

The world has got uranium poisoning Nuclear power is no panacea

Tom Zoellner

Tom Zoellner

6 mins

10 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Dispatch

Inside Charleston’s craft renaissance Young artisans are defying AI

Farahn Morgan

Farahn Morgan

8 mins

9 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Misinformation

How censorship seized America Big Tech did the government’s bidding

Jacob Siegel

Jacob Siegel

9 mins

10 Apr 2026 - 12:01am


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

Technology

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

Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania

7 mins

8 Apr 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.

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Weekend Review

How to defy dictatorship Anatoly Marienhof saw through Soviet communism

William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann

6 mins

11 Apr 2026 - 12:05am


Sovereignty

Is it too late to reindustrialise? Britain faces painful tradeoffs

Rian Chad Whitton

Rian Chad Whitton

11 mins

9 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Ethics

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

Justin Lee

Justin Lee

5 mins

2 Apr 2026 - 12:04am


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

Science

Robert Trivers: the last wild man of academia He wouldn’t stand a chance today

John Maier

John Maier

7 mins

9 Apr 2026 - 12:01am

Space

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

Gerard DeGroot

Gerard DeGroot

5 mins

1 Apr 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


Protests

How Trump saved the Left His hubris reawakened the opposition

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

1 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Middle East

The Boomer-uncle war Trump has no strategy beyond spectacle

Heather Penatzer

Heather Penatzer

5 mins

31 Mar 2026 - 12:00am


Peace deal

Why I went to Moscow Russians are ready to compromise

Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

7 mins

8 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

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

Insanity

Does Kanye deserve our forgiveness? Shame is a vanishing emotion

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

10 Apr 2026 - 12:04am


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

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


Passover

Bibi has become the new King Herod Imperial intrigues are a disaster for Jews

Ben Judah

Ben Judah

8 mins

8 Apr 2026 - 12:01am

War

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

Amir Tibon

Amir Tibon

7 mins

25 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

America

Against the Mad King Trump makes technocracy look good

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

6 mins

9 Apr 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

Atlanticism

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

Sophie Heawood

Sophie Heawood

6 mins

23 Mar 2026 - 12:00am


Military Revolution

The twilight of America’s sky knights Fighter jets are an anachronism

Malcom Kyeyune

Malcom Kyeyune

11 mins

7 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

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

Iran war

America will never recover its authority Trump has passed the point of no return

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

5 mins

8 Apr 2026 - 9:59am


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

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


Tech Lords

Demis Hassabis: renaissance man He knows that image is everything

Alys Key

Alys Key

5 mins

7 Apr 2026 - 12:01am

evolution

Why humans dream of sheep We are not a species apart

Michael Bond

Michael Bond

5 mins

17 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

Hugh Hefner

What Playboy got right about men Lust and literacy can coexist

Kat Rosenfield

Kat Rosenfield

7 mins

7 Apr 2026 - 11:59pm


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

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


Food

Toby Carvery: Britain on a plate Is it a vision of our future?

Jimi Famurewa

Jimi Famurewa

9 mins

6 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Cinema

The Great Stupidisation ‘Idiocracy’ was too optimistic about America

Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania

7 mins

12 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

Geopolitics

China will win the Iran War Its factories are ready for a step change

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

8 mins

7 Apr 2026 - 12:05am


Parenting

Why Millennial men missed out on kids Fatherhood is a hero’s journey

Matthew Gasda

Matthew Gasda

5 mins

11 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

Retribution

Ian Huntley’s pointless death Jailhouse justice violates society

Steve Gallant

Steve Gallant

5 mins

10 Mar 2026 - 12:00am


Salome

Oscar Wilde’s paschal mystery Love, not Caesar, is lord of all things

David Lloyd Dusenbury

David Lloyd Dusenbury

8 mins

6 Apr 2026 - 12:01am

culture

The tragedy of Jewish identity As antisemitism changes, so do its chroniclers

Alexander Cohen

Alexander Cohen

6 mins

9 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

Dispatch

Why Orbán needs Ukraine Zelensky is the perfect adversary

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

6 mins

7 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


Middle East

The uncertain fate of Iran’s Jews Is it safer to stay?

Jacob Howland

Jacob Howland

5 mins

6 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

Terrorism

Is this the end of Hezbollah? Lebanon is finally taking on the militia

Michal Kranz

Michal Kranz

5 mins

5 Mar 2026 - 12:00am


cheap fakes

The cowardice of the AI plagiarist Writers risk becoming ventriloquist's dummies

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

3 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Regime change

Revenge of the Kurds Can they make a new Iran?

Matt Broomfield

Matt Broomfield

6 mins

4 Mar 2026 - 12:00am