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WATCH LIVE: The UnHerd Club welcomes @EsmeLKPartridge and @platospodcasts for an exclusive masterclass on the meaning and mythos of William Blake, the painter and poet, who has become a model for a new kind of rebellious spirituality.

‘There is clearly a social base for a more radical anti-migrant politics, but no predominant leader or unifying party to build it.’ Will there be more Eppings? @felixpope_ reports 👇 buff.ly/GL8okvk

All of Aster’s previous films concern the failure of the paternal function and depict subjects who, deprived of it, are left at the mercy of an overbearing feminine principle. This holds for Eddington, too. @SohrabAhmari reviews. unherd.com/2025/07/edding…

Aster isn’t a conservative, except in the narrowly psychoanalytic sense epitomized by Jacques Lacan’s formula: The Father . . . or worse. unherd.com/2025/07/edding…

The moment when the Manhattan theater where I watched EDDINGTON erupted in roaring laughter: A high schooler lectures his working-class white family on the need for “white abolition.” The father’s response: “Are you a fucking retard? You’re white.” unherd.com/2025/07/edding…

"In the new West, the cowboys are no less in thrall to corporate power than the Indians." My essay on Ari Aster's new masterpiece, EDDINGTON. unherd.com/2025/07/edding…

Though he skewers 2020 woke-ism in Eddington, Ari Aster is astute enough not to rest content with a too-easy anti-wokeism. Instead, he uncovers deeper psychic dysfunctions roiling beneath both woke and anti-woke. unherd.com/2025/07/edding…

"Eddington: No country for woke men." Read @SohrabAhmari's review of director Ari Aster's bleak new Western. unherd.com/2025/07/edding…

In all of Ari Aster's films, characters are trapped in structures which know them better than they know themselves, and which they can't escape. In @eddingtonmovie's case, the structure is the Western mythos itself. My @unherd review essay. unherd.com/2025/07/edding…

Is Pete Hegseth more concerned with pleasing Trump than running his department? @TomRtweets 👇 buff.ly/esXqImd

“Boys don’t need pity or to be patronised, and they certainly don’t need lessons in manhood from women who’ve rejected their own sex. What they need are parents who guide them, and teachers who stop treating them like defective girls.” unherd.com/newsroom/eliot…

Leaks and partisan posturing are undermining Pete Hegseth's authority. @TomRtweets 👇 buff.ly/esXqImd

Hunter Biden has called Donald Trump a ‘fucking dictator thug’ in a new interview. @MaxJMitchell1 reports👇 buff.ly/tJVQRf7

Today’s crisis doesn’t represent democracy’s sudden collapse, but instead the unveiling of how power truly works. It exposes the limits of formal democratic institutions, bringing the logic of state power into blindingly sharp relief. My latest: unherd.com/2025/07/how-we…

Donald Trump and ICE agents are terrorising people like the KKK did during the Reconstruction era, Hunter Biden has claimed. @MaxJMitchell1👇 buff.ly/tJVQRf7

"... until we’re brave enough to call porn what it is — a poison — no school assembly about boys who cry will make the slightest bit of difference." @jo_bartosch unherd.com/newsroom/eliot…

'Biden’s defiance of his own party’s voters likely contributed to their dismal approval rating of the Democrats today.' But the party hierarchy won't admit as much, writes @mbaharaeen 👇 buff.ly/xdgLxp1

‘It seems likely that algorithms will shape the actions of many first-time voters, whose choices in the polling booth were engineered months or even years before.’ @gabemckeownuk 👇 buff.ly/XlQahkf

Whoever Western electorates seem to vote for, nothing ever changes. Undemocratic elites are just too strong, writes @battleforeurope 👇 buff.ly/AHS5BZo

Do the Democrats understand why they lost to Trump? An upcoming report suggests not. @mbaharaeen 👇 buff.ly/xdgLxp1