Weekend Analysis

Starmer’s weaponised incompetence Labour isn’t working — it’s shirking responsibility

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

5 mins

18 Apr 2026 - 12:20am

Weekend Essay

Why the US economy beats Europe

Michael Lind

8 mins

18 Apr 2026 - 12:15am


Weekend Dispatch

Is Bulgaria Putin’s next target?

Michal Kranz

10 mins

18 Apr 2026 - 12:10am


Weekend Essay

Why the US economy beats Europe Big Business is good, actually

Michael Lind

8 mins

18 Apr 2026 - 12:15am


Weekend Dispatch

Is Bulgaria Putin’s next target? He could use energy as a weapon

Michal Kranz

10 mins

18 Apr 2026 - 12:10am


Porn

Spare me Labour’s summer of sex Vibrators can’t teach consent

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


Looksmaxxing

Clavicular: the digital Dorian Gray He is an ugly cipher for our time

Cosmo Adair

Cosmo Adair

6 mins

16 Apr 2026 - 12:15am

Budapest

What next for Europe’s postliberals? JD Vance will Americanise their cause

Samuel Rubinstein

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Class

How Salford made modern Britain The dirty old town birthed generations of artists

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:01am


Review

Why contemporary artists worship tech The New Museum envisions a bleak future

Matthew Gasda

Matthew Gasda

5 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Review

In defence of Lena Dunham She understands your body horror

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

16 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

Iran war

When will the Hormuz recession hit? Our buffer is running out

John Rapley

John Rapley

6 mins

16 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


Budapest

What next for Europe’s postliberals? JD Vance will Americanise their cause

Samuel Rubinstein

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Review

Why contemporary artists worship tech The New Museum envisions a bleak future

Matthew Gasda

Matthew Gasda

5 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Class

How Salford made modern Britain The dirty old town birthed generations of artists

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:01am


Review

In defence of Lena Dunham She understands your body horror

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

16 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

War

The Pope versus the President Conservative Catholics face a choice

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

10 mins

16 Apr 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
Ideology

National populism has outgrown America Trump is now a liability

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

6 mins

14 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


Islam

What Ireland teaches us about Iran Martyrdom turns suffering into strength

Malise Ruthven

Malise Ruthven

8 mins

16 Apr 2026 - 12:01am

Data Centres

The grey belt was made for Big Tech But Labour can’t explain why

Greg Noone

Greg Noone

8 mins

15 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


Education

How red states are killing college Anti-DEI has created a red-tape nightmare

Richard A. Greenwald

Richard A. Greenwald

7 mins

14 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Shipping

Will I ever escape the Strait of Hormuz? Oceans are now battlefields

Anonymous Seafarer

Anonymous Seafarer

5 mins

15 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 - 12:01am

Election Dispatch

The Hungarian revolution isn’t what it seems Orbán’s defeat is not a liberal victory

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

5 mins

13 Apr 2026 - 8:12am


Literature

On astonishment and angels Writers must learn to fly backwards

David Keenan

David Keenan

5 mins

10 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Dispatch

Inside Charleston’s craft renaissance Young artisans are defying AI

Farahn Morgan

Farahn Morgan

8 mins

9 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


creativity

The great schizo-autist war Is your brain-type ‘Helen DeWitt’?

Justin Murphy

Justin Murphy

8 mins

15 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

Democrats

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

William Liang

William Liang

6 mins

12 Apr 2026 - 11:59pm


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

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


Inquiry

Axel Rudakubana and the moral rot of the state The Southport inquiry exposes buck-passing bureaucrats

Adam King

Adam King

5 mins

14 Apr 2026 - 9:43am

Ethics

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

Justin Lee

Justin Lee

5 mins

2 Apr 2026 - 12:04am

Weekend Review

How to defy dictatorship Anatoly Marienhof saw through Soviet communism

William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann

6 mins

12 Apr 2026 - 11:59pm


Space

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

Gerard DeGroot

Gerard DeGroot

5 mins

1 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


Occupation

Israel’s death penalty shame Real justice isn’t joyful

Omer Bartov

Omer Bartov

6 mins

14 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Middle East

The Boomer-uncle war Trump has no strategy beyond spectacle

Heather Penatzer

Heather Penatzer

5 mins

31 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

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


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

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


Iran war

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

Lily Lynch

Lily Lynch

8 mins

13 Apr 2026 - 12:03am

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

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


War

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

Amir Tibon

Amir Tibon

7 mins

25 Mar 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


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

Atlanticism

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

Sophie Heawood

Sophie Heawood

6 mins

23 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

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

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


Nuclear power

The world has got uranium poisoning Nuclear power is no panacea

Tom Zoellner

Tom Zoellner

6 mins

10 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

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

evolution

Why humans dream of sheep We are not a species apart

Michael Bond

Michael Bond

5 mins

17 Mar 2026 - 12:00am


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

Misinformation

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

Jacob Siegel

Jacob Siegel

9 mins

10 Apr 2026 - 12:01am


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