Bari Weiss: there are signs of sanity returning The writer tells Freddie Sayers why she is optimistic about the future

Tim Pool: 10 years on, Occupy activists have flipped They now champion causes that used to be associated with the Right

Sir Clive Sinclair: a visionary ahead of his time He didn't get everything right, but foresaw trends decades ahead

Dominic Sandbrook

The Theranos stories they don’t tell you about Outrageous fraud is common in the world of venture capital

The Merkel era was not Germany’s golden age A new poll finds that a plurality of Germans miss the old days

Thursday

16.09

The AUKUS pact is bad news for France Australia's new security partnership with the US and UK is a snub to Paris

Jonathon Kitson

Scrapping SATs will not reduce racial inequality The alternatives are even more biased

Deepfakes have disturbing implications for porn A new app digitally superimposes women into videos — this is only the start

Wednesday

15.09

Michael Gove is now the most important man in government And, incidentally, I called it a year ago

Gavin Newsom wins, but California loses The Governor's victory papers over deep issues in the state

Record inflation? Blame Eat Out to Help Out The biggest contribution to the rise in CPI came from the hospitality sector

Norm Macdonald: the only comedian to survive Trump He managed to outlive the great death of comedy of the post-2016 era

Buying Bitcoin may backfire on the Taliban Its price is unpredictable from one day to the next

Tuesday

14.09

Tyler Cowen changes his mind on crypto The influential thinker says he is no longer a sceptic

The case against new Covid restrictions Cases are shrinking without them — exponential growth now seems impossible

Viktor Orban vs the Pope: rival strains of Christian thought Supporters of both worldviews can point to strong theological backing

Joe Biden declares ‘War on Covid’ Like Bush's War on Terror, this conflict is open-ended and a potential disaster

Geoff Shullenberger

Monday

13.09

Asset strippers are coming for your supermarket Private equity buyers are burdening companies with huge debts

KPMG enters the diversity minefield The firm wants more working class staff, but can't define who they are

Kristina Murkett

Emma Raducanu’s overlooked heritage Using the tennis star for political point scoring obscures her background

Did Ayn Rand defeat vaccine passports? Sajid Javid is known to be a fan of the individualist philosopher

Mary Harrington

At last — a system to make flying guilt free Thanks to new technology climate apocalypse doesn't have to be our future

Saturday

11.09

9/11 responders gave me faith in the masculine ideal As a soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan, I saw it for myself

Friday

10.09

Why Britain is uniquely vulnerable to a new wave of terrorism Deep links with Pakistan will open the door to terrorists

Priti Patel is playing a dangerous game with France Britain risks losing its favourable arrangements with France on migrants

Modest fashion is making a comeback Consumers are growing bored of BDSM chokers and embracing the 'granny style'

Mary Harrington

The myth of Blue Labour Boris Economically and socially, the Prime Minister remains an instinctive libertarian

How Conservatives MPs are different from their voters The party is economically liberal, but the people who vote for them are not

Thursday

09.09

Curtis Yarvin schools Tucker in ‘neoreaction’ The Right-wing blogger joined the Fox News host to discuss his theories of power

Denmark is paying the UK to take their Afghan refugees An undisclosed sum was paid to Britain to accept 23 interpreters

Will the Amish take over America? Historically persecuted religious sects are winning the demographic war

The cynicism behind El Salvador’s Bitcoin decision The people don't want it, but that won't stop the currency's cheerleaders

Wednesday

08.09

Bill Gates finally realises that lockdown hurts children A major advocate for social distancing is having second thoughts

No Judith Butler, gender-critical feminists aren’t ‘fascists’ The academic can't frame everything as a Right-wing transphobic attack

Meet Japan’s wannabe Margaret Thatcher Sanae Takaichi could become Japan's first female PM

What has Bernie Sanders actually accomplished? The Senator turns 80 today — his most enduring legacy may be his failures

Tuesday

07.09

Is Justin Trudeau going the way of Theresa May? The Canadian PM's cynical election call looks like it is backfiring

Marshall Auerback

Michael K. Williams was an antidote to today’s identity politics His portrayal of Omar Little in The Wire defied stereotypes

Kristina Murkett

Social care is a constitutional row waiting to happen A UK-wide tax hike to pay for social care in England will anger devocrats

Immortal billionaires? What could go wrong! Silicon Valley is investing in life-extending technology — should we worry?

Monday

06.09

Don’t listen to the progressives, Gavin Newsom If the governor wants to survive his recall, he should remember who his voters are

Why I’m not renewing my Irish passport Hilary Mantel may want to become European again, but I don't

The Government Censorship Unit you’ve never heard of The "Counter Disinformation Cell" is monitoring your online statements

Wooden homes: is it time to go back to the future? Beautiful, green and slow to age, this material is a British mainstay

Nicholas Boys Smith

Saturday

04.09

Denmark overtakes Sweden as the restriction-free Nordic nation The government no longer considers Covid-19 a critical threat to society

Friday

03.09

The right way to look at the Bangladesh mask study The evidence isn't conclusive, but then again it rarely is

The ACLU turns against free speech The once-vital group is being captured from within by hyper-partisan activists

Can Macron save Marseille? The President has a plan for France's poorest and most violent city

We don’t need to talk more about our mental health The focus can become all consuming and harmful

Thursday

02.09

Joe Biden has started a war with the Deep State The oldest president in American history has convulsed the old guard

Richard H. Thaler: on vaccines, ‘nudge’ isn’t enough Freddie Sayers challenges the Nobel prize winner and 'Nudge' inventor on the impact of his method

Meet Replika, your new A.I. best friend Are automated relationships the grim future for our atomised society?

You need to know about the Doge meme NFT It may seem ridiculous, but in the crypto world it could be worth billions

Handing weapons to US enemies could have been avoided China, Russia and Iran will be all over the Taliban's new fleet

Jonathon Kitson

Wednesday

01.09

How judges are weaponising vaccines The criminal justice system turns to public health concerns

Why is Rishi Sunak still the most popular politician in the UK? The Chancellor wasted billions on making homes more expensive

Under Taliban rule, ISKP will flourish That there will be no functional state is to the terrorist group's advantage

Tuesday

31.08

Children on antidepressants up 20% — another cost of lockdown? As the school year begins, drug prescriptions are skyrocketing

In Germany, nobody wants to talk about the workers Politicians are staying silent on the crisis in the labour market

The West can learn from China’s crackdown on gaming For years, we have tried — and failed — to restrict access to pornography

Monday

30.08

Britain will come to regret Operation Ark It was absurd to prioritise cats and dogs ahead of allies and civilians

The rainbow wars get religious at Manchester Pride The heckling of an LGB supporter is a worrying sign of things to come

Mary Harrington

UnHerd picks: August’s best Substacks Featuring: Afghanistan, Nike adverts, and Apple

Friday

27.08

Michel Barnier is very popular… in Britain, not France The chances of him being elected President of the Republic are nil

A mysterious spike in Tourette’s leads back to YouTube star Psychiatric disorders can spread via 'social contagion'

More money doesn’t make better schools Even socialists now reject the connection between expenditure and quality

Thursday

26.08

As Kabul burns, we need to talk about Pakistan The country has deep links with groups like the Taliban

NICE has created an ‘unholy mess’ Inside sources tell me why the body's new ME guidelines were delayed

Dissent magazine used to be important. I miss it. The once radical publication has turned conformist

Christopher Sarjeant

‘Bombshell’ study finds natural immunity superior to vaccination If the findings are confirmed, the implications for Covid policy will be profound

The British Brit-bashers are at it again Whatever the problem, some people always find a way to blame Brexit

Wednesday

25.08

Are we witnessing a centre-Left resurgence in Germany? CDU complacency has allowed the SPD to close in on their polling lead

Pat Buchanan was right about Afghanistan The Republican had grave reservations about US wars

Even Nike can’t sell masculinity anymore The company's brand has become lost in identity politics

Meet AppleToo, the latest woke pseudo-union Tech employees are organising — but not in the way you might think

Has the Taliban got access to biometric data? US forces left behind military hardware that may contain dangerous information

Timandra Harkness

Tuesday

24.08

Exploitation is on the road again Truck drivers, cyclists and taxi drivers are suffering from a lack of worker power

Prof. Jay Bhattacharya: I stand by the Great Barrington Declaration The Stanford professor offers his reflections on the pandemic

Social workers risk everything for sharing their views Rachel Mead has been suspended pending investigation on highly dubious grounds

Melanie Newman & Julie Bindel

The Taliban’s meme war The hardline Islamic group is no stranger to online propaganda

Monday

23.08

Germany’s ‘black zero’ fetish hurts the rest of Europe The CDU's obsession with a balanced budget is a scam

Why Facebook hid its ‘Transparency Report’ The company is embarrassed by the most popular shared content on its site