"The real lesson of this story is how poorly suited the American Right is to engaging in journalism — and, indeed, the movement’s impoverished understanding of what journalism is all about." Richard Hanania on the Right's rotten new journalism. unherd.com/2026/01/nick...

"It’s up to the Iranian people to decide, now, how they want to live together. Will they forgive each other? Or repeat the cycle of totalizing politics, repression, and revenge that brought them to their current nadir in the first place?" unherd.com/2026/01/can-...

"It’s up to the Iranian people to decide, now, how they want to live together. Will they forgive each other? Or repeat the cycle of totalizing politics, repression, and revenge that brought them to their current nadir in the first place?" unherd.com/2026/01/can-...

There may never be a spectacular collapse of the Iranian regime. Because, in a sense, the Islamic Republic has already fallen. What remains is a sort of ghost regime. My essay. unherd.com/2026/01/can-...

Those who followed my work know I've devoted a lot to confronting and critiquing the racialist and neo-eugenic trends on the Right. But we can't have an asymmetric model of anti-racialism, whereby figures on the Left can call for "impoverish[ing] the white middle class"---and still get public jobs

More extremist posts from Mamdani’s tenant czar resurface online. The posts attack police, private property, and suburban homeownership, reports Sohrab Ahmari 👇

UnHerd SCOOP: More extremist posts surface from Mamdani tenant czar --- including ones in which she rails against "white people," calls for defunding the NYPD and abolishing ICE, and describes all property as "theft." unherd.com/newsroom/mor...

Our new mayor has a problem, and her name is Cea Weaver, his tenant czar. I've uncovered more cray-cray social posts from her, including one claiming that "property is theft" (all property, no distinction, no qualification). unherd.com/newsroom/mor...

SCOOP: I've uncovered more extremist posts from Mayor Mamdani's new tenant czar, Cea Weaver. She says moving to a gentrifying neighborhood is "structural racism," rails against "white people" (all white people), and claims ALL "property is theft." unherd.com/newsroom/mor...

Yes, there is such a thing as international law. But there is no world police to enforce it. It falls to individual powers to do so, in the manner of masterless samurai or Western gunslingers. Michael Lind cuts through a lot of bullshit here. unherd.com/2026/01/trum...

Yes, there is such a thing as international law. But there is no world police to enforce it. It falls to individual powers to do so, in the manner of masterless samurai or Western gunslingers. Michael Lind cuts through a lot of bullshit here. unherd.com/2026/01/trum...

In the latest FT Swamp Notes newsletter (and before the seizure of Maduro), I asked @constelz.bsky.social, @michaelrstrain.bsky.social, @sohrabahmari.bsky.social, Lauren Fedor and Rebecca Katz to offer some guidance to the year ahead in US politics as.ft.com/r/faed7e98-5...

“Unlike Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, or Syria, Venezuela had a relatively strong tradition of continuous (if flawed) democratic government.” Must-read Juan David Rojas on Venezuela's narrow path democracy. unherd.com/2026/01/vene...

Venezuela's path to freedom is menaced by colonels, cartels--and Trump. @rojasrjuand.bsky.social for unherd.com/2026/01/vene...

Venezuela is associated with the domestic drug and immigration crises, and falls within the expansive vision of hemispheric security that has prevailed among Americans going back to the early republic. Me on why MAGA supports the Maduro capture unherd.com/newsroom/why...

"Where we end up—in the dystopian Torment Nexus or a new world of broadly shared abundance—turns on whether we appreciate the logic of Christian democracy." — @sohrabahmari.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...

The urge to criticize the obese Emma Specter for tearing down Bardot is ignoble, but obvious. Valerie Stivers with a sensitive piece for UnHerd unherd.com/2026/01/the-...

It’s a shame that Mamdani thinks collectivism is the answer. It’s also a shame that his opponents fail to see individualism as collectivism’s handmaiden | Sohrab Ahmari unherd.com/newsroom/zoh...

It’s a shame that Mamdani thinks collectivism is the answer — and a shame that his opponents fail to see individualism as collectivism’s handmaiden. The better alternative, the model that cuts through the individualist-collectivist dialectic, is the common good. unherd.com/newsroom/zoh...

The fat-girl era is killing 'Vogue'. unherd.com/2026/01/the-...

The fat-girl era is killing 'Vogue' Amazing essay by my UnHerd colleague Valerie Stivers @valeriestivers.bsky.social unherd.com/2026/01/the-...

"The young Right would be wise to learn from the young Left’s mistakes. Or suffer the same fate in a few years, as the nation turns away, exhausted, from the politics of incomprehensible jargon, antics, and tantrums." On the "looksmaxxing" trend. unherd.com/2026/01/look...

The fat-girl era is killing 'Vogue' Amazing essay by my UnHerd colleague Valerie Stivers @valeriestivers.bsky.social unherd.com/2026/01/the-...

It’s a shame that Mamdani thinks collectivism is the answer — and a shame that his opponents fail to see individualism as collectivism’s handmaiden. The better alternative, the model that cuts through the individualist-collectivist dialectic, is the common good. unherd.com/newsroom/zoh...

“Individualism” and “collectivism” are two sides of the same debased coin. Why I wish @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social had spoken of the COMMON GOOD. My latest. unherd.com/newsroom/zoh...

AI-powered bots surpassed humans in web traffic this year — meaning the web is increasingly a surreal space where robots imitate us to talk to each other. Ryan Zickgraf on how we got tired of tech (and that's a good thing). unherd.com/2025/12/2025...

Some 11 years ago, I wrote a WSJ editorial that helped block Alaa Abd El-Fattah --- an Egyptian blogger who's called for the murder of Jews, white people, and cops --- from receiving the Sakharov Prize. Now he's been welcomed into Britain by the clueless Starmer. unherd.com/2025/12/why-...

My interview with JD Vance was just read aloud on CNN, regarding his assertion that Ukraine will "probably" lose territorial control of Donetsk. That's in the full transcript, available only to paid subscribers to @unherd.com unherd.com/2025/12/full... .

"I disagreed with what the pope said there. I think that that’s a particularly Euro-centric view of these negotiations." JD Vance responds to Pope Francis's criticisms of the Trump administration's Ukraine peace efforts From the transcript of my interview with the veep unherd.com/2025/12/full...

JD Vance tells Nick Fuentes to "eat shit" for insulting his wife and says the Groypers provide a useful foil for pro-Israel hard-liners who don't want a real Israel debate. And much more from my sit-down with the Veep, exclusively for UnHerd ---> unherd.com/2025/12/jd-v...

JD Vance tells Nick Fuentes to "eat shit" for insulting his wife and says the Groypers provide a useful foil for pro-Israel hard-liners who don't want a real Israel debate. And much more from my sit-down with the Veep, exclusively for UnHerd ---> unherd.com/2025/12/jd-v...

Beware tech-bro economics. Must-read Michael Lind for UnHerd unherd.com/2025/12/bewa...

Most of the crises that the Left blames on "fascism" and the Right on "Marxism" are actually endemic to liberal capitalism. Edmund King, exclusively for UnHerd. unherd.com/2025/12/welc...

The online Right has created this vast, soap-opera-meets-The-X-Files extended universe around Charlie Kirk, his widow, his shifting Israel politics, batshit theories of his death, etc. The mainstream Right (CBS News) is getting in on it. Is the country bored of it, though?

These days, some degree of “globalism” is impossible to avoid for influencers and intellectuals — even hard-core nationalist ones. Me on why MAGA factions each have their pet foreign country. unherd.com/2025/12/why-...

Who created our cultural wasteland? It's tempting to hand-wring about the Right "neoliberalism," argues Ryan Zickgraf, but the truth is more complicated. unherd.com/2025/12/who-...

A regime-change war in Venezuela would transform the new National Security Strategy document into yet another feckless exercise by Right-wing intellectuals to define on paper a Trumpism that doesn’t exist in the real world. unherd.com/newsroom/ven...

Trump's lawless narco war. Former soldier and Taliban-hunting intel officer Brandan Buck for UnHerd. unherd.com/2025/12/trum...

Trump's lawless narco war. Former soldier and Taliban-hunting intel officer Brandan Buck for UnHerd. unherd.com/2025/12/trum...

Progressive women have given up on marriage on childbearing. Conservative women remain committed to both. Patrick Brown on fascinating, and depressing, new data on the partisan divide when it comes to family formation. unherd.com/2025/12/libe...

The December issue of @commonweal.bsky.social includes an article by theological ethicist Dr. Lisa Sowle Cahill. In ‘The Primacy of Politics’ she explores how to prioritize the principles of Catholic teaching, in response to @sohrabahmari.bsky.social ’s Escaping the ‘Torment Nexus’.

"Even if they don’t go full Columbine, young people who regularly use today’s high-potency varieties are at elevated risk for psychosis." unherd.com/2025/11/kevi...

Parents: Keep your kids from today's weed. This is not the mellow drug we experimented with 20, 30 years ago. Regular use dramatically boosts the risk of psychosis, for one thing. My profile of drug-policy advocate Kevin Sabet unherd.com/2025/11/kevi...

“If you look at almost every single mass shooting in this country, there are many common denominators, and one of them is a substance. And it’s not alcohol, it’s not meth, it’s not fentanyl. So you can guess what it is. It’s marijuana.” unherd.com/2025/11/kevi...

Weed potency has dramatically intensified, with some concentrates reaching near-pure levels of THC, the plant’s primary psychoactive compound. Reefer madness is here, now. My latest. unherd.com/2025/11/kevi...

The December issue is here!🎄Inside: - @sohrabahmari.bsky.social calls for a Christian-democratic renewal—and four contributors respond - Aaron Robertson reports on Black Catholic life in Detroit - Editors and friends recommend Christmas reads And more! www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...

Everybody has their own theory or diagnosis about the ails of our American political ecosystem. Mine is that the past decade and a half can be characterized as the mutual drifting away of both major parties from the ideals of Christian democracy.

The Christian- and social-democratic model represents the fullest expression of Catholic Social Teaching, inaugurated in the late 19th century by Leo XIII. My @commonweal.bsky.social essay on its prospects in time of Leo XIV, based on my Villanova lecture www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...

"All of the most admirable tenets of Christian and social democracy could be traced back to the Leonine teaching." @sohrabahmari.bsky.social on recovering the wisdom of Christian democracy: www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...

"The hawks and Atlanticists still operate on the assumption that America’s and Europe’s strategic interests are deeply aligned. Trump, like many ordinary Americans and Europeans, understands that the age of alignment is over." unherd.com/2025/11/the-...