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US Editor, UnHerd. Writing my next book, on the triumph for normal, for HarperCollins.

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Ground war in Iran would be hell

A ground war in Iran will be hell on earth.

Brandan Buck, himself a former Army infantryman, walks us through why.

A must-read.

unherd.com/2026/03/grou...

10.03.2026 00:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Genital Stage Β» Verdurin Progressive societies have dismantled many of the prohibitions that once ring-fenced errant sexual desires. Were 'heteronormative' orthodox Freudian ideas like β€˜genitality' useful after all?

Just a few spaces left for the LONDON launch of my new pamphlet, Saving Genitality.

It's on how the genital formation links psychoanalysis back to classical virtue ethics (yes, Freud in league with Aristotle).

That's tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7 p.m.

Tickets >>>

verdur.in/event/the-ge...

09.03.2026 11:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Iranian strategist: no ceasefire on our agenda

β€œThe Americans imagine they’re the only ones who think. They forget that there is another actor who is equally capable of initiative, foresight, and planning.”

An Iranian-regime strategist tells me.

Read the full interview: unherd.com/2026/03/iran...

07.03.2026 06:16 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How JD Vance lost the foreign policy war

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-...

01.03.2026 12:44 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The canceled prophet of the racial Right

The canceled prophet of the racial Right β€” the thinker who paved the way for Fuentes and the Groypers.

Sharp profile of Sam Francis by Richard Greenwald.

unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

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Why your kid hates learning apps

"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-...

24.02.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Genital Stage Β» Verdurin Progressive societies have dismantled many of the prohibitions that once ring-fenced errant sexual desires. Were 'heteronormative' orthodox Freudian ideas like β€˜genitality' useful after all?

Join @sohrabahmari.bsky.social in conversation with Alfie Bown, to launch β€˜Saving Genitality’ published by @everydayanalysis.bsky.social, which rethinks sexuality, proposing a return of the repressed: genitals.
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20.02.2026 11:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why your kid hates learning apps

β€œTeachers 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-...

24.02.2026 01:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Genital Stage Β» Verdurin Progressive societies have dismantled many of the prohibitions that once ring-fenced errant sexual desires. Were 'heteronormative' orthodox Freudian ideas like β€˜genitality' useful after all?

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...

22.02.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Genital Stage Β» Verdurin Progressive societies have dismantled many of the prohibitions that once ring-fenced errant sexual desires. Were 'heteronormative' orthodox Freudian ideas like β€˜genitality' useful after all?

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...

22.02.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The teenage-boy proving ground

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-...

19.02.2026 00:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The AI jobs-apocalypse is here

"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-...

17.02.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The AI jobs-apocalypse is here

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-...

17.02.2026 12:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The AI jobs-apocalypse is here

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-...

17.02.2026 01:31 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The AI jobs-apocalypse is here

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-...

17.02.2026 12:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The AI jobs-apocalypse is here

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-...

17.02.2026 01:31 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The AI jobs-apocalypse is here

"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-...

17.02.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Relax about β€˜Western civ’

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...

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How I beat my phone addiction

How I beat my phone addiction

Extremely charming, funny piece by @hananiarichard.bsky.social

unherd.com/2026/02/how-...

12.02.2026 11:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The faith of my father, Jimmy Lai

"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-...

11.02.2026 10:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The faith of my father, Jimmy Lai

"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-...

11.02.2026 00:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Groyper who would be governor

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-...

10.02.2026 10:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Groyper who would be governor

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-...

10.02.2026 10:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How Trump scams border hawks

"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-...

05.02.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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How Trump scams border hawks

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-...

05.02.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Court ruling intensifies MAGA’s antitrust civil war They were warned. A federal district judge on Monday ruled that several state attorneys general would be allowed to depose key figures involved in the Department of Justice’s green-lighting of a…

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

03.02.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Plastic surgeons ditch gender ideology

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...

04.02.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Plastic surgeons ditch gender ideology

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...

04.02.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0