The Best of UnHerd
10+ most popular UnHerd articles, as voted by our community.
Challenging the herd with new and bold thinking in philosophy, politics and culture.
UnHerd on Conspiracy Theories
UnHerd on Food
UnHerd on History
The rise of Archaeologists Anonymous
Censorship is driving dissident researchers underground
UnHerd on Literature
The death of literature
We have fallen out of love with good writing
«The paradox of this mystic inner quality is that its depth gets expressed by what we think of as a superficial quality: style.»
UnHerd on Persuasion
The dying art of persuasion
Culture warriors on both the Left and Right are too scared of changing their minds
UnHerd on Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel on the dangers of progress
The tech billionaire discusses Silicon Valley, Christianity and apocalypse
«we don’t know how to make a zero-growth society work.”»
UnHerd on Race
UnHerd on Society
Life is one big status game
The battle to be virtuous inspires endless political cruelty
«But it is also a status game, the aim being to “seek the maximal removal” of their opponent’s status: “ideally, reputational death.”»
UnHerd on Travel
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