13+ hour, 53+ min ago  (611+ words) Cosmeticorexia is a symptom of social media replacing play'UnHerd Cosmeticorexia is a symptom of social media replacing play "This make-believe is no longer a fantasy but a very profitable reality." Credit: Getty Has Alex Preston AI saga killed the literary…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (191+ words) A new cultural hub. Credit: Eric Trump/X This week, Eric Trump released a video about the planned Donald J. Trump Presidential Library in Miami, Florida. "This landmark," he wrote in an accompanying post, "on the water in Miami, Florida will…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (528+ words) This week's coverage of male aesthetics reveals a cultural shift more striking than any single procedure. Men are now reshaping their bodies and faces with everything from injectable cadaver fat to jawline filler, botox, and beard transplants " all in pursuit…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (1157+ words) The false dawn of the post-literate society LLMs have brought back protowriting'UnHerd The false dawn of the post-literate society LLMs have brought back protowriting Cuneiform writing at "avu'tepe archaeological site in Turkey. (Gerard SIOEN / Gamma-Rapho / Getty) When writers mention "writing…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (191+ words) A new cultural hub. Credit: Eric Trump/X This week, Eric Trump released a video about the planned Donald J. Trump Presidential Library in Miami, Florida. "This landmark," he wrote in an accompanying post, "on the water in Miami, Florida will…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (353+ words) Bryon Noem listens to his wife Kristi give testimony last year. Credit: getty Above all, though, the episode is a stark reminder that the myth of a pristine, wholesome countryside is just that " a myth. Red America is no less…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (359+ words) Members of the Italian national team following last night's defeat on penalties. Credit: Getty For the third time running, Italy " a former superpower of world football " won't be going to the World Cup. On Tuesday evening, the four-time world champions…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (146+ words) Magical thinking is no longer fringe. Credit: The Benny Show. This week, Vice President JD Vance appeared on the conservative podcast, The Benny Show,and professed that he believed aliens were demons. There are two easy reads here. The first…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (635+ words) What is to be done with Kanye West? It's hard now, on the release of his new album Bully, even to narrate his life story in the 2020s with all its twists and turns: the naked wife, the "Jewish doctor, the…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (529+ words) One of the last taboos of the British Museum establishment has been broken. Earlier this week, Culture Minister Lisa Nandy proposed that the Government would "explore" the recommendations of a report suggesting public museums should charge entrance fees for foreign…...