weekend essay

America’s new doctrine of Empire Can Trump save Europe from itself?

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

7 mins

13 Dec 2025 -

Weekend Spotlight

Can you choose to be Jewish?

Jacob Howland

6 mins

13 Dec 2025 -


Weekend Analysis

The death of Hollywood

Matthew Crawford

4 mins

13 Dec 2025 -


Weekend Spotlight

Can you choose to be Jewish? India’s lost tribe is heading to Israel

Jacob Howland

6 mins

13 Dec 2025 -


Weekend Analysis

The death of Hollywood Managers are replacing craftsmen

Matthew Crawford

4 mins

13 Dec 2025 -


Debate

Does Nick Fuentes have daddy issues? He got the better of Piers Morgan

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

12 Dec 2025 -


Big Tech

The enshittification of Christmas Convenience has displaced community

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

6 mins

11 Dec 2025 -

Stabbings

Gangs are menacing London’s schoolkids The latest killing will not be the last

Max Daly

Max Daly

5 mins

12 Dec 2025 -

capitalism

Welcome to mystery-box liberalism Stop blaming fascism and Marxism for the system

Edmund King

Edmund King

7 mins

12 Dec 2025 -


Ken Burns

America was never inclusive Progressive whitewashing won’t succeed

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

12 Dec 2025 -

Trade war

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

Edwin Ackerman

Edwin Ackerman

6 mins

11 Dec 2025 -


American culture

Who created our cultural Dark Ages? Blaming the Right is tempting — and wrong

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

6 mins

9 Dec 2025 -


fertility crisis

Liberal women have abandoned marriage Right-wing chauvinism doesn’t help

Patrick T. Brown

Patrick T. Brown

5 mins

3 Dec 2025 -

Thanksgiving

The media ruined the Thanksgiving pie The holiday is a time for the classics

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

6 mins

26 Nov 2025 -

Foreign Policy

The triumph of the Trump Doctrine Execution is shoddy, but the change is real

Heather Penatzer

Heather Penatzer

12 mins

25 Nov 2025 -

Network states

The tragedy of Keir Starmer’s Substack It yearns for an illusory world

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

7 mins

10 Dec 2025 -


Stabbings

Gangs are menacing London’s schoolkids The latest killing will not be the last

Max Daly

Max Daly

5 mins

12 Dec 2025 -

Ken Burns

America was never inclusive Progressive whitewashing won’t succeed

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

12 Dec 2025 -

capitalism

Welcome to mystery-box liberalism Stop blaming fascism and Marxism for the system

Edmund King

Edmund King

7 mins

12 Dec 2025 -


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 -

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
immigration

Tommy Robinson is a cynical Christian Hush the noise, ye man of strife

Giles Fraser

Giles Fraser

5 mins

9 Dec 2025 -


feminism

The great porn panic Causal arguments rest on pseudo-science

John Maier

John Maier

7 mins

11 Dec 2025 -

Real estate

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

Lee Siegel

Lee Siegel

6 mins

9 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 -

Celebrity

Simon Cowell is still dangerous Has the pop svengali lost his touch?

Sarah Ditum

Sarah Ditum

5 mins

11 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 -

America

How Trump conquered Europe His security strategy betrays imperial intent

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

8 Dec 2025 -


Sex

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

Sarah Fletcher

Sarah Fletcher

8 mins

4 Dec 2025 -

Space

Will Trump destroy Nasa? Its moonshot is a fantasy

Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin

8 mins

3 Dec 2025 -


Qatar

Why the MAGA crowd loves foreign lands Every faction has a pet country

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

4 mins

10 Dec 2025 -

Money

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

Matthew Gasda

Matthew Gasda

4 mins

2 Dec 2025 -

Weekend Essay

The therapy-scholar is killing academia Emoting is valued above intellectual heft

Susan Pickard

Susan Pickard

6 mins

6 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 -

Underworld

The truth about hitmen Britain’s gangland killers are incompetent

Max Daly

Max Daly

9 mins

28 Nov 2025 -


Multiculturalism

Are Muslims Britain’s future? An assertive new generation puts faith first

Rakib Ehsan

Rakib Ehsan

6 mins

10 Dec 2025 -

Education

We’ll miss the Eton of the Valleys Working-class boys thrived without girls

Joel Day

Joel Day

8 mins

27 Nov 2025 -

Weekend Opinion

Eurovision’s bum-note boycott Politics has silenced the Joy of Song

Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill

4 mins

6 Dec 2025 -


Welfare State

Can Britain escape its housing trap? Amateur landlords call the shots

Peter Apps

Peter Apps

6 mins

26 Nov 2025 -

Dispatch

Northern Ireland’s last huntsmen The working-class tradition faces a ban

Adam James Pollock

Adam James Pollock

6 mins

25 Nov 2025 -


MAGA

Memelords rule the White House Ragebait is a luxuriant expression of power

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

9 Dec 2025 -

Sex

Inside the ‘Empire of Orgasm’ Nicole Daedone exploited her followers

Lily Isaacs

Lily Isaacs

7 mins

24 Nov 2025 -

Weekend analysis

David Cameron was the future once Does the former prime minister have any regrets?

Michael Cockerell

Michael Cockerell

8 mins

6 Dec 2025 -


music

How Radiohead let down their fans Politics has come back to bite Thom Yorke

Darran Anderson

Darran Anderson

8 mins

21 Nov 2025 -

The Ashes

Cricket can redeem you Test series are an antidote to modernity

Tim Wigmore

Tim Wigmore

6 mins

20 Nov 2025 -


inquiry

Labour’s grooming gang cowardice Working-class trust has been squandered

David Littlefair

David Littlefair

6 mins

9 Dec 2025 -

Books

Enough of the Literary It Girl Women's reality deserves better than porn logic

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

5 mins

19 Nov 2025 -

Weekend spotlight

The Bermuda Triangle swallowed our reason Conspiracy culture was born in its depths

Frederick Kaufman

Frederick Kaufman

5 mins

6 Dec 2025 -


from the archive

Let’s talk about Ariana Grande’s body She represents an ideal of adulthood

Sarah Ditum

Sarah Ditum

5 mins

19 Nov 2025 -

Privacy

The high street’s authoritarian turn Live facial recognition is no solution to crime

Timandra Harkness

Timandra Harkness

6 mins

18 Nov 2025 -


Mommy wars

Attachment parenting is a guilt-trip Day care has been demonised

Rosie Gray

Rosie Gray

7 mins

8 Dec 2025 -

Gentrification

America’s invasion of Mexico Digital nomads are tearing neighbourhoods apart

Ian Birrell

Ian Birrell

10 mins

17 Nov 2025 -

America

The futility of pensioner protests Why let Trump ruin your retirement?

Daniel Kalder

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

14 Nov 2025 -

Dispatch

The San Francisco school sacrificed to equity Progressives are ignoring the poor

Leighton Woodhouse

Leighton Woodhouse

7 mins

13 Nov 2025 -


Geopolitics

Silicon Valley strongmen want to lead the West The future belongs to technologists

David Patrikarakos

David Patrikarakos

9 mins

8 Dec 2025 -

Dispatch

Getting a kick out of amateur football Fans dodge sheep invasions and geese droppings

Ross Davies

Ross Davies

8 mins

12 Nov 2025 -

Faith

Beware the religious revival It heralds a great upending

John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer

10 mins

11 Nov 2025 -


review

When did Springsteen stop making great albums? ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ holds a clue

Matt Feeney

Matt Feeney

7 mins

10 Nov 2025 -

Ilford

The revolt on Streeting’s doorstep Leanne Mohamad is poised to overthrow him

Felix Pope

Felix Pope

7 mins

5 Dec 2025 -


Africa

Why Trump should stay out of Nigeria Bombs won’t work, but sanctions might

Remi Adekoya

Remi Adekoya

7 mins

7 Nov 2025 -