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? India’s lost tribe is heading to Israel

Jacob Howland

Jacob Howland

6 mins

13 Dec 2025 -


Weekend Analysis

The death of Hollywood Managers are replacing craftsmen

Matthew Crawford

Matthew Crawford

4 mins

13 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 -


Qatar

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

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

4 mins

10 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 -


Qatar

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

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

4 mins

10 Dec 2025 -

Influencers

Now boys hate their bodies too Looksmaxxers are acting like teenage girls

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

18 Dec 2025 -

Protests

Zoomer politics is doomed to fail Only social animals produce durable change

Michael Cuenco

Michael Cuenco

6 mins

18 Dec 2025 -


Christmas

Our demonic drive for drunkenness Raw-dogging consciousness isn’t easy

Jarryd Bartle

Jarryd Bartle

4 mins

18 Dec 2025 -


Green Party

Zack Polanski’s degrowth dystopia The Green insurgency will cannibalize Britain

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

7 mins

17 Dec 2025 -

dysfunction

Britain’s bargain-basement social care It’s a symbol of national decline

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

6 mins

16 Dec 2025 -

dispatch

Inside the Jane Austen theme park The writer has become a brand

Tanya Gold

Tanya Gold

5 mins

16 Dec 2025 -

Weekend Spotlight

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

Jacob Howland

Jacob Howland

6 mins

13 Dec 2025 -


America

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

Daniel Kalder

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

14 Nov 2025 -

zoomers

What young Republicans are telling us Racial language-policing has failed

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

23 Oct 2025 -


Influencers

Now boys hate their bodies too Looksmaxxers are acting like teenage girls

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

18 Dec 2025 -

History

Don’t mention the old World Wars Outdated analogies make bad foreign policy

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

6 mins

23 Oct 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
Debate

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

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

12 Dec 2025 -


belief system

Why Human Design is perfect for our age It’s religion for the LinkedIn class

Alexandra Jones

Alexandra Jones

7 mins

13 Oct 2025 -

premier league

The triumph of Brexitball Our football style has followed politics

Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson

7 mins

10 Oct 2025 -


Protests

Zoomer politics is doomed to fail Only social animals produce durable change

Michael Cuenco

Michael Cuenco

6 mins

18 Dec 2025 -

Trade war

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

Edwin Ackerman

Edwin Ackerman

6 mins

11 Dec 2025 -


Architecture

Trump’s monumentalistic aesthetic He wants to memorialize America's greatness

Adam Ellwanger and John J. Waters

Adam Ellwanger and John J. Waters

6 mins

23 Sep 2025 -

Dispatch

Estonian opioids are heading for Britain Nitazenes are far deadlier than fentanyl

Michal Kranz

Michal Kranz

11 mins

21 Sep 2025 -


School meals

What’s eating the dinner lady? You can’t feed kids austerity

Alex Taylor

Alex Taylor

10 mins

17 Dec 2025 -

Psychedelics

Should philosophers take drugs? We must embrace the weirdness of the world

Justin Smith-Ruiu

Justin Smith-Ruiu

8 mins

12 Sep 2025 -

Qatar

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

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

4 mins

10 Dec 2025 -


Faith

The war for China's soul Xi sees Christianity as spiritual opium

Christopher Harding

Christopher Harding

5 mins

1 Sep 2025 -

Energy

Trump’s climate policy is class warfare MAGA wants to own the libs

Matt Huber

Matt Huber

5 mins

30 Jul 2025 -


Espionage

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

Luke de Pulford

Luke de Pulford

8 mins

17 Dec 2025 -

obituary

Ozzy Osbourne made Birmingham his power He reassured the city's alienated weirdos

Tracy King

Tracy King

5 mins

24 Jul 2025 -

Real estate

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

Lee Siegel

Lee Siegel

6 mins

9 Dec 2025 -


Music

How Black Sabbath transcended Birmingham Heavy metal was forged in the Midlands

Daniel Kalder

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

3 Jul 2025 -

War

Trouble in the National Guard Troop morale has rarely been lower

Malcom Kyeyune

Malcom Kyeyune

9 mins

26 Jun 2025 -


Mental Health

How self-diagnosis is driving teens mad All the guys want a girl with ’tism

Lily Hamson

Lily Hamson

5 mins

16 Dec 2025 -

spooked

Americans are seeing ghosts The paranormal industry is booming

Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

5 mins

23 Jun 2025 -

America

How Trump conquered Europe His new security strategy reveals an imperial intent

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

8 Dec 2025 -


nationalism

The battle for Poland isn’t over Traditional values aren’t welcome in Brussels

Michal Kranz

Michal Kranz

7 mins

6 Jun 2025 -

Review

'I Kissed a Boy' pays lip service to dogma Contestants don't practice what they preach

John Maier

John Maier

8 mins

1 Jun 2025 -


Technology

How amateur hackers designed our future They foresaw machine intelligence

Carl Miller

Carl Miller

6 mins

16 Dec 2025 -

culture wars

Can China rescue the classics? Greek philosophy may be of ideological use

Bruce Clark

Bruce Clark

6 mins

13 May 2025 -

Weekend Essay

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

Susan Pickard

Susan Pickard

6 mins

6 Dec 2025 -


AI slop

Welcome to the age of Otaku Ghibli memes are just the start

Louis Elton

Louis Elton

7 mins

4 Apr 2025 -

Feud

Japan's humiliation of South Korea They should be the best of friends

Oliver Jia

Oliver Jia

5 mins

21 Mar 2025 -


dispatch

Meet Britain’s new ‘masculine Christians’ Tommy Robinson is leading a religious revival

Felix Pope

Felix Pope

8 mins

15 Dec 2025 -

20 years on

How YouTube forged the online Right Its polemicists radicalized a generation

Gavin Haynes

Gavin Haynes

6 mins

14 Feb 2025 -