Somehow, JD Vance, a fierce Trumpian critic of the neoconservatives, ended up in government at the highest levels---only to help implement the foreign-policy preferences of a John Bolton or Elliott Abrams. My UnHerd essay. unherd.com/2026/03/how-...

The canceled prophet of the racial Right — the thinker who paved the way for Fuentes and the Groypers. Sharp profile of Sam Francis by Richard Greenwald. unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

"Across the United States, veteran teachers describe a quiet exodus from a profession radically transformed by i-Ready and other educational technology." unherd.com/2026/02/why-...

Join @sohrabahmari.bsky.social in conversation with Alfie Bown, to launch ‘Saving Genitality’ published by @everydayanalysis.bsky.social, which rethinks sexuality, proposing a return of the repressed: genitals. buff.ly/HQc8nIZ

“Teachers resent that i-Ready strips them of the authority to design lessons based on years of experience.” MUST-READ investigative report on i-Ready, the Big Tech app that is swallowing American schools and young minds. unherd.com/2026/02/why-...

Can Freud and Aristotle be made to get along? More so than you might think. That’s the argument of my upcoming pamphlet on THE GENITAL STAGE for Everyday Analysis. Come to the London Launch on March 10! verdur.in/event/the-ge...

Can Freud and Aristotle be made to get along? More so than you might think. That’s the argument of my upcoming pamphlet on THE GENITAL STAGE for Everyday Analysis. Come to the London Launch on March 10! verdur.in/event/the-ge...

Why are teenaged boys in NYC covertly climbing bridges and cranes and construction sites? And should we be worried. Valerie Stivers brilliantly explains the "Urbex" phenom for UnHerd. unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

"It’s now the college-educated, office-dwelling winners of the age of the internet and globalization who are suddenly discovering that they, too, can become the needless things alongside the blue-collar manufacturing base." unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

The AI jobs-apocalypse is here, and it will create an extremely dangerous class of jobless: educated laptop workers. Ryan Zickgraf games out the political scenarios for UnHerd. unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

The Republican Party keeps preaching "disruption" in an age when white- AND blue-collar workers alike are enraged by too much disruption. The AI jobs-apocalypse is here. unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

The AI jobs-apocalypse is here, and it will create an extremely dangerous class of jobless: educated laptop workers. Ryan Zickgraf games out the political scenarios for UnHerd. unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

The Republican Party keeps preaching "disruption" in an age when white- AND blue-collar workers alike are enraged by too much disruption. The AI jobs-apocalypse is here. unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

"It’s now the college-educated, office-dwelling winners of the age of the internet and globalization who are suddenly discovering that they, too, can become the needless things alongside the blue-collar manufacturing base." unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

Creedalism, multiculturalism, and pan-white nationalism: All three models of defining the West and Western belonging are failing. And good riddance, says MICHAEL LIND: All three ahistorical and out of tune with how real people live and see themselves. unherd.com/2026/02/rela...

How I beat my phone addiction Extremely charming, funny piece by @hananiarichard.bsky.social unherd.com/2026/02/how-...

"On Dad’s first day in prison, he told me he was in God’s good hands." The jailed Hong Kong dissident Jimmy Lai's daughter, Claire, speaks out in UnHerd. unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

"On the morning of Feb. 9, my father was sentenced to 20 years in prison. At the age of 78, my father doesn’t even have 10. Yet news outlets reported that he smiled and made a sign of gratitude to the crowd." Jimmy Lai's daughter speaks out in UnHerd unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

James Fishback has concluded that he can’t effectively challenge his party’s pro-business and pro-war orthodoxies without dabbling in online extremism. In his persona, populism and transgression have fully merged. The groyper who would be governor. unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

James Fishback has concluded that he can’t effectively challenge his party’s pro-business and pro-war orthodoxies without dabbling in online extremism. In his persona, populism and transgression have fully merged. The groyper who would be governor. unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

"Far from headlines and social-media feeds, the Trump administration is quietly replacing one group of cheap foreign workers with another." unherd.com/2026/02/how-...

How Trump scams border hawks: He's making it easier for Big Business to import foreign indentured servants. Absolutely devastating essay by United Farm Workers official Antonio de Loera-Brust. unherd.com/2026/02/how-...

A judge’s intervention has exposed fault lines in the American Right’s Big Tech approach | Sohrab Ahmari unherd.com/newsroom/cou...

Plastic surgeons bail on the Cronenbergian horror of "gender-affirming care" for minors. And thereby shatter the fragile expert consensus in favor of gender medicine that was upheld more by activism than science. unherd.com/2026/02/plas...

Plastic surgeons bail on the Cronenbergian horror of "gender-affirming care" for minors. And thereby shatter the fragile expert consensus in favor of gender medicine that was upheld more by activism than science. unherd.com/2026/02/plas...

On Tuesday, the American Society for Plastic Surgeons came out in opposition to providing gender-transition surgeries to minors. The recommendation is the first of its kind from a mainstream medical association. @benryanwriter.bsky.social reports for UnHerd. unherd.com/2026/02/plas...

On Tuesday, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons came out in opposition to providing gender-transition surgeries to minors. It's a reminder that science can trump ideology when investigators follow its time-tested processes. unherd.com/2026/02/plas...

"For years, proponents of pediatric gender medicine appeared to have an ironclad medical consensus behind them... But the consensus was always a mirage — and this week, at least among major US medical groups, it officially vanished." unherd.com/2026/02/plas...

On Tuesday, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons came out in opposition to providing gender-transition surgeries to minors. It's a reminder that science can trump ideology when investigators follow its time-tested processes. unherd.com/2026/02/plas...

On Tuesday, the American Society for Plastic Surgeons came out in opposition to providing gender-transition surgeries to minors. The recommendation is the first of its kind from a mainstream medical association. @benryanwriter.bsky.social reports for UnHerd. unherd.com/2026/02/plas...

"For years, proponents of pediatric gender medicine appeared to have an ironclad medical consensus behind them... But the consensus was always a mirage — and this week, at least among major US medical groups, it officially vanished." unherd.com/2026/02/plas...

"Woke seemed to be on the wane from 2022 to 2025, but it has come roaring back in 2026 in a new form that’s both purified and more vicious." unherd.com/2026/02/woke...

It's baaaaaaaaaack. unherd.com/2026/02/woke...

"When these episodes of mass outrage get going, no nuance is allowed. And for Americans in the educated classes — those who, in a better world, would have the social and professional power to put on the brakes — the environment becomes coercive." unherd.com/2026/02/woke...

In the second iteration of woke, the oppressed subject --- black Americans then, illegal migrants now --- is eclipsed by the violent professional-class hero/martyr. unherd.com/2026/02/woke...

Why the most illuminating historical analogy for Trump might be with… Franklin Roosevelt - my latest with @jacklgoldsmith www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...

In the second iteration of woke, the oppressed subject --- black Americans then, illegal migrants now --- is eclipsed by the violent professional-class hero/martyr. unherd.com/2026/02/woke...

"When these episodes of mass outrage get going, no nuance is allowed. And for Americans in the educated classes — those who, in a better world, would have the social and professional power to put on the brakes — the environment becomes coercive." unherd.com/2026/02/woke...

It's baaaaaaaaaack. unherd.com/2026/02/woke...

OK, woke 2.0 is officially here. The new version is purer and more vicious than the 2020 one. This is a landmark essay by Valerie Stivers, marking a cultural watershed. unherd.com/2026/02/woke...

“Woke 2.0 is eschewing both theory and institutional takeover for militant action and sheer rage.” unherd.com/2026/02/woke...

“Woke 2.0 is eschewing both theory and institutional takeover for militant action and sheer rage.” unherd.com/2026/02/woke...

"Woke seemed to be on the wane from 2022 to 2025, but it has come roaring back in 2026 in a new form that’s both purified and more vicious." unherd.com/2026/02/woke...

OK, woke 2.0 is officially here. The new version is purer and more vicious than the 2020 one. This is a landmark essay by Valerie Stivers, marking a cultural watershed. unherd.com/2026/02/woke...

@whstancil.bsky.social used to be mocked by both the MAGA Right and the DSA Left. But he's fast emerging as the hero progressives need. Ryan Zickgraf has a charming profile. unherd.com/2026/01/will...

Will Stancil's Revenge of the Nerd. Humane, good-humored profile of @whstancil.bsky.social by Ryan Zickgraf. Exclusively for UnHerd. unherd.com/2026/01/will...

"Walz, the embodiment of 'Minnesota nice,' the man so relatable he could supposedly sell a progressive culture war to the white working class, was finally revealed to be reckless, divisive, and incompetent." unherd.com/2026/01/the-...

The unraveling of Tim Walz. Masterful political writing from Emily Jashinsky. unherd.com/2026/01/the-...

Fascinating piece on how gun-guy culture is shifting from red to blue. unherd.com/2026/01/alex...

"We now have the spectacle of a Left-wing concealed carrier sucked into the long-running SIG P320 controversy. . . ." Jon Stokes on Alex Pretti's weapon of misfortune. unherd.com/2026/01/alex...