We are all Bryan Johnson now
After holding a developmental reading of a play I have been working on about a fictional transhumanist and his world, I was able to briefly…
Belfast’s new faultline
Every city is a palimpsest, in the pattern of whose streets and buildings, stories etched in the past remain legible. Even when there has been a careful attempt to forget…
Can Cuba resist America?
“This is the worst crisis since the Revolution,” says Alvaro Miranda, 57, a history teacher standing on the sun-soaked streets of Old Havana between crumbling white buildings. His face looks…
My diversity stress — and ours
On a crisp morning last December, I took the 6 train from near my apartment in East Midtown toward UnHerd’s new US headquarters in Lower Manhattan. If the 4 isn’t…
David Hockney’s defiant pleasure
David Hockney has died, leaving London with the most visually seductive exhibition installation of the year as his obituary. A Year in Normandie is the most stunning I’ve seen since…
The Equality Act’s fatal paradox
As the World Cup kicks off, at least one person in Westminster seems to have been watching the habits of effective center-forwards. Delivering a speech on Tuesday, Kemi Badenoch found…
Can Whitehall stop the riots?
After a night of unrest in Belfast and elsewhere, the family of Stephen Ogilvie, the man hospitalized by an attack on Monday night, issued a statement via the Police Service…
How drug gangs threaten the World Cup
It’s been more than five years since Daniel Flores Fernández disappeared. But telling the story now, his father Héctor still wells up. It happened when Daniel was just 19, living…
When private equity came for trailer parks
I’ve never been called “trailer trash”, but I did live in a trailer in Northeast Georgia in my early teens. Trailers don’t have the best reputation, but I liked it…
Is Andy Burnham a plastic Papist?
Patriotic Englishmen used to be terrified that their country was ruled by Roman Catholics. Nothing could better rouse them to action than the story, real or imagined, that Popery had…