The Econoclasts

Venezuela special: Maduro, oil, and Trump’s next target

New Episode
Geopolitics

What Putin does next Like Trump, he has neighbours to topple

Michal Kranz

Michal Kranz

8 mins

7 Jan 2026 -

Femininity

Why women are sleeping with Jellycats Soft toys represent a crisis of femininity

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

7 Jan 2026 -


Intellectuals

How Big Tech killed literary culture The philistines are in charge now

Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr

6 mins

7 Jan 2026 -


Femininity

Why women are sleeping with Jellycats Soft toys represent a crisis of femininity

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

7 Jan 2026 -


Intellectuals

How Big Tech killed literary culture The philistines are in charge now

Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr

6 mins

7 Jan 2026 -


Venezuela

Trump must resist nation building He risks betraying America First

Edward Luttwak

Edward Luttwak

5 mins

7 Jan 2026 -


Venezuela

Donald Trump’s oil gamble Is it black gold — or fool’s gold?

John Rapley

John Rapley

6 mins

6 Jan 2026 -

Femininity

Why women are sleeping with Jellycats Soft toys represent a crisis of femininity

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

7 Jan 2026 -

Intellectuals

How Big Tech killed literary culture The philistines are in charge now

Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr

6 mins

7 Jan 2026 -


Venezuela

Trump must resist nation building He risks betraying America First

Edward Luttwak

Edward Luttwak

5 mins

7 Jan 2026 -

Year ahead

What expert forecasters are predicting in 2026 Their focus is on Iran, SpaceX and Reform

James Newport

James Newport

11 mins

6 Jan 2026 -


Vogue

The fat-girl era is killing ‘Vogue’  The magazine should celebrate Bardot

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

4 mins

3 Jan 2026 -


Friedrich Nietzsche

How I outgrew Nietzsche His philosophy compensated for not being good at life

Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania

7 mins

2 Jan 2026 -

Canada

Can Canada keep its independence? The country’s greatest thinker foretold its failure — and ours 

George Dunn

George Dunn

6 mins

31 Dec 2025 -

Books

Why artists choose Catholicism A new book on converts explains Rome’s cool-factor

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

29 Dec 2025 -

Venezuela

Donald Trump’s oil gamble Is it black gold — or fool’s gold?

John Rapley

John Rapley

6 mins

6 Jan 2026 -


Politics

Has Mumsnet fallen for Farage? Labour is losing Middle England

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

6 mins

6 Jan 2026 -

Prison

The truth about sex behind bars Ruthless inmates are masters of seduction

Steve Gallant

Steve Gallant

6 mins

5 Jan 2026 -

Regime change

MAGA’s samurai justice in Venezuela Self-interested policing is nothing new

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

8 mins

6 Jan 2026 -


Review

Wes Anderson’s Potemkin movies Real life is not a patisserie

Darran Anderson

Darran Anderson

7 mins

2 Jan 2026 -

The Right

Looksmaxxing is the new trans Clavicular’s cybertruck smashes conservative hope

Nikos Mohammadi

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

3 Jan 2026 -

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
diplomacy

Will 2026 be a year of war? Spheres of influence are solidifying

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

5 Jan 2026 -


Geopolitics

The paradox of Trumpian Realism Imperial hubris won’t make America stronger

Arta Moeini

Arta Moeini

6 mins

5 Jan 2026 -

Year In Review

Britain’s free speech paradox The law has become incoherent

Jonathan Sumption

Jonathan Sumption

20 mins

31 Dec 2025 -


Inauguration

New York is headed for disaster Zohran Mamdani isn’t ready for power

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

31 Dec 2025 -

Internet

How the Twitch pundit triumphed Politics has become a game

Alys Key

Alys Key

6 mins

5 Jan 2026 -

Christmas Read

John Quincy Adams never stopped fighting His diaries reveal an anti-slavery obsession

William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann

15 mins

29 Dec 2025 -

Regime change

Venezuela’s path to freedom It is menaced by colonels, cartels — and Trump

Juan David Rojas

Juan David Rojas

6 mins

4 Jan 2026 -


Year in review

The grooming gang scandal isn’t over Labour is looking the other way

Julie Bindel

Julie Bindel

20 mins

29 Dec 2025 -

Year In Review

On Bonnie Blue and Roger Scruton We have stripped sex of enchantment

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

26 Dec 2025 -


new year

Why I resolve to ignore the psychologists Let’s dream of exuberant reinvention

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

2 Jan 2026 -

Year in review

The age of nihilism is over Gen Z wants to fill the void

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

6 mins

25 Dec 2025 -

Weekend Analysis

The Left must embrace freedom Notions of fairness and equality won’t cut it

Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

7 mins

3 Jan 2026 -


Year in Review

The Ulsterisation of English politics Westminster is losing legitimacy

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

8 mins

24 Dec 2025 -

Dispatch

Christmas in Noah’s Ark Believers are flocking to Kentucky

Farahn Morgan

Farahn Morgan

9 mins

23 Dec 2025 -


technology

It’s time for neo-Temperance Could Appstinence cure modern brain rot

Louis Elton

Louis Elton

7 mins

2 Jan 2026 -

Poverty

Birmingham’s Dickensian nightmare The second city needs a new Christmas Carol

Alex Taylor and Tracy King

Alex Taylor and Tracy King

6 mins

22 Dec 2025 -

Weekend Essay

‘Excalibur’ is English fantasia John Boorman’s myth is richer than reality

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

11 mins

3 Jan 2026 -


Multiculturalism

Consider the roadman He is feared, mocked and exploited

Ralph Leonard

Ralph Leonard

6 mins

19 Dec 2025 -

Christmas

Our daemonic drive for drunkenness Rawdogging consciousness isn’t easy

Jarryd Bartle

Jarryd Bartle

4 mins

18 Dec 2025 -


AI

How to navigate the Year of Slop You’ll need an intellectual toolkit

Gurwinder Bhogal

Gurwinder Bhogal

5 mins

1 Jan 2026 -

Espionage

The UK is falling into China’s trap Our institutions are exposed

Luke de Pulford

Luke de Pulford

8 mins

17 Dec 2025 -

Protests

Iran’s fate is in Trump’s hands The President holds the cards

David Patrikarakos

David Patrikarakos

4 mins

2 Jan 2026 -


Technology

How amateur hackers designed our future They foresaw machine intelligence

Carl Miller

Carl Miller

6 mins

16 Dec 2025 -

review

What if Napoleon had won? Counterfactual history has seldom been so rich

Boyd Tonkin

Boyd Tonkin

7 mins

15 Dec 2025 -


Political Economy

Can social democracy save capitalism — again? But don’t count on the Left

Joel Kotkin

Joel Kotkin

7 mins

1 Jan 2026 -

Ken Burns

America was never inclusive Progressive whitewashing won’t succeed

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

12 Dec 2025 -

Labour

Why Starmer won’t survive 2026 Cancelling elections could doom his premiership

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

7 mins

1 Jan 2026 -


Trade war

Claudia Sheinbaum: Trump whisperer Mexico’s Leftist leader has surprised critics

Edwin Ackerman

Edwin Ackerman

6 mins

11 Dec 2025 -

Civilisation

Kenneth Clark: unlikely socialist He wanted the best for the most

Pratinav Anil

Pratinav Anil

6 mins

10 Dec 2025 -


retrospective

The triumph of anti-art Our century is defined by anaesthesia

Sam Jennings

Sam Jennings

12 mins

31 Dec 2025 -

Real estate

Is Mamdani’s idealism already fading? Rhetoric is meeting reality

Lee Siegel

Lee Siegel

6 mins

9 Dec 2025 -

Technology

2025, the year we took the red pill Unplugging from the matrix has begun 

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

9 mins

30 Dec 2025 -


One year on

Will civil war return to Syria? Its future is in the balance

Tam Hussein

Tam Hussein

6 mins

8 Dec 2025 -

South America

Maduro has called Trump’s bluff The US must wage war or back down

John Masko

John Masko

7 mins

5 Dec 2025 -


Christmas Read

How to survive the Machine age EM Forster believed in humanity

Jacob Howland

Jacob Howland

7 mins

31 Dec 2025 -

Sex

How flirting lost its magic Pick-up artists had a point

Sarah Fletcher

Sarah Fletcher

8 mins

4 Dec 2025 -

Human rights

Why should Britain rescue an enemy? El-Fattah’s release exposes Starmer’s moral emptiness

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

5 mins

28 Dec 2025 -


Space

Will Trump destroy Nasa? Its moonshot is a fantasy

Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin

8 mins

3 Dec 2025 -

Money

Asset-hoarding Boomers rob the young   Our finances have gone ‘Vanity Fair’ 

Matthew Gasda

Matthew Gasda

4 mins

2 Dec 2025 -


Christmas Read

The CIA: patron of the arts The best Cold War critics were found in Foggy Bottom

Ryan Ruby

Ryan Ruby

8 mins

30 Dec 2025 -

Drugs

My adopted baby was born an addict I understand why families can’t cope

Rosie Lewis

Rosie Lewis

5 mins

1 Dec 2025 -