The Econoclasts

THE TRANSHUMANIST FUTURE IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK

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London

Make Soho seedy again My neighbourhood traded character for commercialism

Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson

4 mins

4 Jun 2026 - 12:04am

Politics

The Right-wing case for wealth tax Britain’s middle class is being shafted

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

7 mins

4 Jun 2026 - 12:02am


liberalism

Why are Americans so paranoid? Conspiracy is a psychic salve

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

7 mins

4 Jun 2026 - 12:01am


Politics

The Right-wing case for wealth tax Britain’s middle class is being shafted

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

7 mins

4 Jun 2026 - 12:02am


liberalism

Why are Americans so paranoid? Conspiracy is a psychic salve

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

7 mins

4 Jun 2026 - 12:01am


Midterms

Dems are losing a winnable election Top operatives are to blame

Alicia Nieves

Alicia Nieves

6 mins

4 Jun 2026 - 12:00am


antiracism

Henry Nowak’s death shames Britain Progressive obsessions have warped the state

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

6 mins

3 Jun 2026 - 12:04am

Politics

The Right-wing case for wealth tax Britain’s middle class is being shafted

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

7 mins

4 Jun 2026 - 12:02am

liberalism

Why are Americans so paranoid? Conspiracy is a psychic salve

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

7 mins

4 Jun 2026 - 12:01am


Midterms

Dems are losing a winnable election Top operatives are to blame

Alicia Nieves

Alicia Nieves

6 mins

4 Jun 2026 - 12:00am

Technology

Welcome to ‘the silent society’ Can we reverse the social die-off? 

Michael Cuenco

Michael Cuenco

7 mins

3 Jun 2026 - 12:00am


American conservatism

Mike Pence should go away already His Reaganite faith comes up short

James Billot

James Billot

6 mins

2 Jun 2026 - 12:00am


Texas

When cowboys fought capitalism Talarico should reclaim Texas’s radical roots

David Griscom

David Griscom

7 mins

28 May 2026 - 12:00am

thomas massie

How Trump and the neocons beat Thomas Massie But it’s a hollow victory

Ross Barkan

Ross Barkan

5 mins

20 May 2026 - 10:13am

Literature

Invasion of the literary bots Did AI game the Commonwealth Prize?

Vincenzo Barney

Vincenzo Barney

8 mins

20 May 2026 - 8:30am

Politics

How Reform ate Labour’s lunch Farage has charmed the working man

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

7 mins

2 Jun 2026 - 12:03am


Longevity

Can Putin live to 1,000? Ageing is his Achilles heel

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

3 Jun 2026 - 12:01am

The Right

Mike Pence should go away already His Reaganite faith comes up short

James Billot

James Billot

6 mins

2 Jun 2026 - 12:00am

Middle east

Israel can’t kill the Hezbollah hydra Cheap drones have changed the battlefield

Mitchell Prothero

Mitchell Prothero

5 mins

3 Jun 2026 - 12:01am


Strategy

How the ‘American Way of War’ failed in Iran Trump isn’t an outlier

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

9 mins

29 May 2026 - 12:00am

The Left

Brad Lander’s ‘No’ to Israel Dems will follow his line on the Jewish state

Ross Barkan

Ross Barkan

4 mins

1 Jun 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
Labour

Tony Blair’s comeback will fail Radical centrism doesn’t work

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

1 Jun 2026 - 12:04am


Los Angeles

Spencer Pratt: Hollywood troll His mayoral campaign spurns the old Tinseltown elite

Frederick Kaufman

Frederick Kaufman

6 mins

2 Jun 2026 - 12:02am

Literature

A Left case for the Great Books  Naomi Kanakia loves the classics, despite herself

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

6 mins

27 May 2026 - 12:00am


History

When cowboys fought capitalism Talarico should reclaim Texas’s radical roots

David Griscom

David Griscom

7 mins

28 May 2026 - 12:00am

Sweet Science

Boutique boxing punches down The new Joe Frazier won’t come from Balham

Tam Hussein

Tam Hussein

7 mins

2 Jun 2026 - 12:01am

Religion

Pope Leo’s unfashionable universalism His new encyclical isn’t really about AI

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

6 mins

26 May 2026 - 3:32pm

Weekend Ideas

The year of cosmic shock We’re living through a new Copernican Revolution

Sohrab Ahmari and Matthew Gasda

Sohrab Ahmari and Matthew Gasda

5 mins

30 May 2026 - 12:20am


Manchesterism

Can Burnham banish Maggie’s ghost? She’s the root of Labour’s woes

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

7 mins

25 May 2026 - 12:00am

hinterland

How Churchill’s art saved the West Painting was an escape from politics

Boyd Tonkin

Boyd Tonkin

8 mins

22 May 2026 - 12:00am


dispatch

My night with the young gay Tories The Conservative Party is a queer social club

Alex Taylor

Alex Taylor

10 mins

1 Jun 2026 - 12:02am

Anniversary

Alasdair MacIntyre was right all along His philosophy has new resonance

Ben Cobley

Ben Cobley

8 mins

21 May 2026 - 12:00am

Weekend Essay

Burnham won’t quell England’s revolt He’s a provincial Sadiq Khan

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

8 mins

30 May 2026 - 12:20am


The Right

How Trump and the neocons beat Thomas Massie But it’s a hollow victory

Ross Barkan

Ross Barkan

5 mins

20 May 2026 - 10:13am

Exclusive

Inside the capture of the BBC How transgenderism killed impartiality

Rob Burley

Rob Burley

38 mins

20 May 2026 - 12:02am


Technology

Why people hate humanoid robots They should be cute rather than lifelike

Alys Key

Alys Key

7 mins

1 Jun 2026 - 12:01am

Universities

The scandal of two-tier degrees Extra time infantilises students

Paul Sagar

Paul Sagar

7 mins

20 May 2026 - 12:00am

Weekend Style

What Versace learned from Rome Vulgarity is glorious

John Banville

John Banville

12 mins

30 May 2026 - 12:15am


Journalism

Algo killed the new-media star Buzzfeed and co. put their trust in Big Tech

Richard A. Greenwald

Richard A. Greenwald

8 mins

19 May 2026 - 12:00am

Care sector

How broken children became big business Vulnerable kids are dumped in illegal homes

Ian Birrell

Ian Birrell

7 mins

18 May 2026 - 12:02am


Parenting

Confessions of a grown-up tech addict Adults are as dazed as children

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

29 May 2026 - 12:03am

Gen Z

How healthmaxxing saved my life Institutional medicine has failed young women

Emily K. Sipiora

Emily K. Sipiora

6 mins

18 May 2026 - 12:00am

Special Report

The plot for a British caliphate The Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated society

Ben Cobley

Ben Cobley

17 mins

29 May 2026 - 12:03am


America

The new epidemic of black youth violence Liberal delusion costs lives

Alicia Nieves

Alicia Nieves

7 mins

15 May 2026 - 12:00am

AI

Robo-dogs will ruin your life AI pets are evil

Marilyn Simon

Marilyn Simon

5 mins

14 May 2026 - 12:01am


Dispatch

The railway dividing Mexico Its construction has ravaged the jungle

Samuel McIlhagga

Samuel McIlhagga

8 mins

29 May 2026 - 12:01am

Dispatch

Meet London’s boat people They have escaped the rat race

Miles Ellingham

Miles Ellingham

8 mins

14 May 2026 - 12:00am

Labour

It’s time to bring back Blair Centrist dads, rejoice

Samuel Rubinstein

Samuel Rubinstein

7 mins

28 May 2026 - 12:03am


Books

‘Suicidal empathy’ is fake science Humans are more than animals

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

6 mins

13 May 2026 - 12:10am

opera

Musical nationalism can save Britten Great opera emerges from political upheaval

Alexander Cohen

Alexander Cohen

4 mins

12 May 2026 - 12:00am


Fame

There was no real Marilyn Monroe Our obsession is voyeuristic

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

28 May 2026 - 12:02am

Gentrification

How Patrick Bateman remade our cities Welcome to ‘American Psycho’ urbanism

Richard A. Greenwald

Richard A. Greenwald

6 mins

11 May 2026 - 12:00am

Culture

Alexander Dugin versus Sydney Sweeney Putin’s philosopher despises Western decadence

Richard Godwin

Richard Godwin

11 mins

27 May 2026 - 12:03am


Technology

Was AI called by Cthulhu? Anthropic’s new platform is straight from Lovecraft

Michael Cuenco

Michael Cuenco

8 mins

9 May 2026 - 12:00am

The Vatican

Was Pope Leo elected to fight Trump? Cardinals are no strangers to crusades

John Hooper

John Hooper

7 mins

8 May 2026 - 12:01am


Comedy

Why aristocrats are funny Toffs can be transgressive

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

28 May 2026 - 12:01am

Pulitzer Prize

The uniparty media’s pro-war twins M. Gessen and Marc Thiessen push the same line

Nikos Mohammadi

Nikos Mohammadi

5 mins

7 May 2026 - 12:11am

Tariffs

Why Europe keeps losing China has a stranglehold on trade

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

26 May 2026 - 12:03am


dispatch

Virginia’s gerrymandering lobster State Republicans are being silenced

Farahn Morgan

Farahn Morgan

8 mins

6 May 2026 - 12:10am

primary election

Why Ohioans still love Trump Middle-class Democrats don’t get it

Jeff Bloodworth

Jeff Bloodworth

8 mins

5 May 2026 - 12:00am


The North

Labourism isn’t working The North needs more than nostalgia

David Skelton

David Skelton

7 mins

27 May 2026 - 12:03am

Turing Test

When Dawkins met Claude Could this AI be conscious?

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

7 mins

2 May 2026 - 12:29am