The real Lori Chavez-DeRemer scandal is her empty record. She was supposed to represent the new, pro-labor wing of the GOP. But she did zilch as Trump II lurched closer to pro-employer libertarianism than George W. Bush. My take. unherd.com/newsroom/the...

After working its way through the conservative press and the online Right, the "disappearing-scientists" narrative got a major boost last week, when White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Team Trump was looking into the matter. It's nonsense. unherd.com/2026/04/behi...

The story of the "disappearing" US scientists is the online Right's latest hysteria outbreak. unherd.com/2026/04/behi...

Why the US economy beats Europe's: Big Business is good, actually By MICHAEL LIND unherd.com/2026/04/why-...

"Many of the Catholic Republicans in my social networks appear more anxious about their relationship with the GOP and the White House in the wake of the Leo spat than they are about the honor of the Roman pontiff." unherd.com/2026/04/the-...

Pope Leo has cast off / rendered impossible the brand of “conservative” Catholicism that since the 1970s has sought to make the faith safe for GOP belligerence and market fundamentalism. My 3,000-word essay, if you’re into such things. The end of conservative Catholicism unherd.com/2026/04/the-...

"Many of the Catholic Republicans in my social networks appear more anxious about their relationship with the GOP and the White House in the wake of the Leo spat than they are about the honor of the Roman pontiff." unherd.com/2026/04/the-...

Pope Leo has cast off / rendered impossible the brand of “conservative” Catholicism that since the 1970s has sought to make the faith safe for GOP belligerence and market fundamentalism. My 3,000-word essay, if you’re into such things. The end of conservative Catholicism unherd.com/2026/04/the-...

Trump's post on the pope is simply demented (and evil). In its claims, and in the tone it strikes toward the Vicar of Christ, the spiritual leader of 1.4 billion.

I've never taken part in a more urgent panel: Today, I'm speaking at this Georgetown gathering on Catholic teaching and the war on Iran. Thousands have registered. It's free and open to the public, and there's still a little time to sign up ==> catholicsocialthought.georgetown.edu/events/war-i...

“I was really hoping that his campaign would go to hell anyway. I was hoping it would go to the shitbin.” An Eric Swalwell staffer tells UnHerd. Astonishing quotes in this insider account of his unraveling. unherd.com/2026/04/insi...

“I was really hoping that his campaign would go to hell anyway. I was hoping it would go to the shitbin.” An Eric Swalwell staffer tells UnHerd. Astonishing quotes in this insider account of his unraveling. unherd.com/2026/04/insi...

“He’s fake anyway, and a very, very weird person. Meeting him, you knew something was off, especially after hearing of his allegations.” A Swalwell staffer tells UnHerd. An extraordinary insider account of his unraveling. unherd.com/2026/04/insi...

“He’s fake anyway, and a very, very weird person. Meeting him, you knew something was off, especially after hearing of his allegations.” A Swalwell staffer tells UnHerd. An extraordinary insider account of his unraveling. unherd.com/2026/04/insi...

Against the Mad King unherd.com/2026/04/agai...

Against the Mad King. Trump's governance style doesn't work. It's so bad one yearns to cry out: Bring back Hillary, bring back the Obama wonks, give us a thousand think-tank white papers. My big UnHerd essay on the end of the war. unherd.com/2026/04/agai...

Against the Mad King. Trump's governance style doesn't work. It's so bad one yearns to cry out: Bring back Hillary, bring back the Obama wonks, give us a thousand think-tank white papers. My big UnHerd essay on the end of the war. unherd.com/2026/04/agai...

RSVP to attend on Monday, April 13 at 12:30 pm EDT online via livestream: bit.ly/IranWarCST #IranWarCST @sohrabahmari.bsky.social @philklay.bsky.social @krocinstitute.bsky.social

@sohrabahmari.bsky.social is the U.S. editor of UnHerd and a former columnist for The New Statesman and the Wall Street Journal, and writes regularly about Iran.

Why "Bari Weiss U" (and other projects like it) fail. Contrarianism, without more, isn't a serious academic project unherd.com/2026/04/why-...

Can we have the good without Good Friday? unherd.com/2026/04/can-...

Can we have the good without Good Friday? unherd.com/2026/04/can-...

"War is back in vogue": On April 13, I'm taking part in this Georgetown online panel on how the Iran War's challenge to Catholic teaching---and the Catholic moral imagination. Free and open to all: catholicsocialthought.georgetown.edu/events/war-i...

Beneath an exterior of clean, conservative values, sometimes there lies a man with a fetish for giving himself enormous fake breasts. My take on Bryon Noem. unherd.com/newsroom/bry...

"It’s high time for Americans to ditch their rural-idyll mythos: lower population density is no guarantor of virtue, nor city life of perversion." Me on l'affaire Bryon Noem. unherd.com/newsroom/bry...

“War is Back in Vogue”: Iran and Catholic Teachings on a Moral Foreign Policy 🗓️ Monday, April 13, 2026 🕧 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. EDT 📍 Online Via Livestream 🗣️ @sohrabahmari.bsky.social, @philklay.bsky.social, Mary Ellen O’Connell, Elisabetta Piqué 🔗 bit.ly/IranWarCST #IranWarCST

Trump's hubris may just have saved the American Left. Ryan Zickgraf visits No Kings protests for UnHerd, and glimpses hopeful signs of meaningful resistance. unherd.com/2026/04/how-...

"Trump’s wartime command closely resembles the Boomer uncle who can’t help himself from scrolling through social-media reels at the Easter dinner table." unherd.com/2026/03/the-...

"Anyone who can be manipulated by Lindsey Graham belongs in a care facility rather than the Oval Office, and those who continue to enable such embarrassment deserve to answer for the damage they’ve done." unherd.com/2026/03/the-...

"Anyone who can be manipulated by Lindsey Graham belongs in a care facility, rather than the Oval Office." unherd.com/2026/03/the-...

"Anyone who can be manipulated by Lindsey Graham belongs in a care facility, rather than the Oval Office." unherd.com/2026/03/the-...

"Anyone who can be manipulated by Lindsey Graham belongs in a care facility rather than the Oval Office, and those who continue to enable such embarrassment deserve to answer for the damage they’ve done." unherd.com/2026/03/the-...

"Trump’s wartime command closely resembles the Boomer uncle who can’t help himself from scrolling through social-media reels at the Easter dinner table." unherd.com/2026/03/the-...

Bibi’s ‘existential’ obsession: Iran blinded him to closer threats. Honored to publish Haaretz senior correspondent Amir Tibon in UnHerd! unherd.com/2026/03/bibi...

Trump's Mideast follies are accelerating China's march to victory in Cold War II. A landmark essay by Michael Lind. unherd.com/2026/03/amer...

Trump on Fox just now: “I’m more popular than I’ve ever been” The circa-2024 Biden was less senile than this.

Trump's Mideast follies are accelerating China's march to victory in Cold War II. A landmark essay by Michael Lind. unherd.com/2026/03/amer...

Trump’s abandonment of MAGA’s peace promise gives Dems a huge opportunity to win by being unequivocally antiwar. MUST-READ Ross Barkan for UnHerd. unherd.com/2026/03/how-...

VP JD Vance is the key to ending the Iran war. That is, if President Trump gives him sufficient scope to negotiate. My column. unherd.com/newsroom/jd-...

Bibi’s ‘existential’ obsession: Iran blinded him to closer threats. Honored to publish Haaretz senior correspondent Amir Tibon in UnHerd! unherd.com/2026/03/bibi...

“I said: it’s drek. It’s drivel.” Cormac McCarthy on David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest." Vincenzo Barney has the scoop, exclusively for UnHerd. unherd.com/2026/03/why-...

“I said: it’s drek. It’s drivel.” Cormac McCarthy on David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest." Vincenzo Barney has the scoop, exclusively for UnHerd. unherd.com/2026/03/why-...

Trump was never the one. His flaws finally became catastrophic. An essay-cum-Major Admission from me. unherd.com/2026/03/trum...

"Among those of us who made our peace with Trump, it was too easy to praise his 'animal instincts' — a phrase I often used in this context — by way of overlooking his lack of personal virtue." My latest. unherd.com/2026/03/trum...

Trump was never the one. His flaws finally became catastrophic. An essay-cum-Major Admission from me. unherd.com/2026/03/trum...

The second oil crisis is here, and it's much worse than 1973. Back then, it was just a matter of the Arabs turning the taps back on. But even if Trump's Iran War stopped tomorrow, it would take months to restore the flow. unherd.com/2026/03/the-...

"As in 1973, the people who absorb the worst of the oil shock will be the poor in Cairo buying cooking oil. They will be working-class Trump voters on low incomes who need to fill up their tanks to get to work." ✍️ Amir Handjani unherd.com/2026/03/the-...

"As in 1973, the people who absorb the worst of the oil shock will be the poor in Cairo buying cooking oil. They will be working-class Trump voters on low incomes who need to fill up their tanks to get to work." ✍️ Amir Handjani unherd.com/2026/03/the-...

The second oil crisis is here, and it's much worse than 1973. Back then, it was just a matter of the Arabs turning the taps back on. But even if Trump's Iran War stopped tomorrow, it would take months to restore the flow. unherd.com/2026/03/the-...

Anti-interventionists and economic populists on the Right who dreamed that Trump would favor their causes may not want to hear the truth. But the truth is that Trumpism is just a vulgar version of Bushism. ✍️ Michael Lind unherd.com/2026/03/the-...