unherd.com —  3+ hour, 48+ min ago

...In what has been a bleak year for Silicon Valley, the sudden surge in the value of tech company Nvidia, driven by its mastery of chips used for artificial... ...Nvidia"s rise as the first trillion-dollar semiconductor firm reinforces the de-industrialisation of the tech economy.... ...But as we saw in cars, consumer electronics and the making of cell phones, America"s key competitors -- China, South Korea and Japan -- are not likely... ...to be satisfied with being hod carriers to the luminaries of Silicon Valley....

unherd.com —  5+ hour, 45+ min ago

...Khloé Kardashian has revealed that she struggled to bond with the baby she procured via surrogacy.... ...Having paid someone else to gestate for her, the reality TV star reports that “I definitely buried my head in the sand during that pregnancy” and... ...In other words, Donald Winnicott said, "There is no such thing as a baby”, for “a baby cannot exist alone, but is essentially part of a relationship... ...Khloé Kardashian tacitly acknowledges the harm this does, saying, “I felt really guilty that this woman just had my baby and I take the baby and...

unherd.com —  8+ hour, 17+ min ago

...in Spain, Right-of-centre parties won a majority in the regional assembly.... ...Though twice the size of Wales, it has less than a third of the population. It is landlocked, drought-stricken and poor.... ...equivalent of the Red Wall in Northern England.... ...On the Left, Podemos and its allies are now in marked decline. In the centre, Ciudadanos (“Citizens”) has been all but wiped out....

unherd.com —  22+ hour, 46+ min ago

...As the academic Howard Eissenstat noted back in 2021: “as  egregious  as  Turkey"s  authoritarian  slide  has  been,  Erdoğan  portrays  himself... ...nationalists, Left-wing Kurds and far-Right ultranationalists assembled beneath Kemal Kiliçdaroğlu"s banner.... ...Turkey has always been a profoundly nationalistic country, as the Turkish political scientist Sinem Adar remarked recently: “there is this kind of... ...As the Turkish analyst Selim Koru observes: “we live in the age of nationalism....

unherd.com —  2+ day ago

...Fiona Hill has declared that the war in Ukraine marks the passing of Pax Americana.... ...The former presidential advisor to Donald Trump stated that Russia had “cleverly exploited deep-seated international resistance” to American leadership... ...Donald Trump, Hill said that these events had “cast further doubt on the US capacity for global leadership”.... ...on in this Lennart Meri Lecture....

unherd.com —  2+ day ago

...Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist and playwright. He is the author of Trainspotting and, most recently, The Long Knives.... ...Because some sections of the white working class bought into the reductive neoliberalism of unrestrained capitalism through the Thatcher-Reagan revolution...

unherd.com —  2+ day ago

...Freddie Sayers is the Editor-in-Chief & CEO of UnHerd. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of YouGov, and founder of PoliticsHome.... ...Admission, that could force Harvard and the University of North Carolina to rethink their race-based selection processes.... ...Harvard”, and a similar case, “Students for Fair Admissions v. the University of North Carolina”.... ...The United States law today, as interpreted about 20 years ago by the Supreme Court, allows colleges and universities to put a thumb on the scale...

unherd.com —  2+ day ago

...“The intensity of our services has increased since the start of the war,” says Sergii Tkachenko, a colonel in Ukraine's State Emergency Service who... ...“Since the invasion, we've had to launch additional evacuation training for those who live in the zones around the power plant.”... ...The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is the largest in Europe.... ...According to the Nuclear Energy Agency, on 19th November last year shelling caused damage to several structures, including a radioactive waste building...

unherd.com —  2+ day ago

...Freddie Sayers is the Editor-in-Chief & CEO of UnHerd. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of YouGov, and founder of PoliticsHome.... ...Admission, that could force Harvard and the University of North Carolina to rethink their race-based selection processes.... ...Harvard”, and a similar case, “Students for Fair Admissions v. the University of North Carolina”.... ...The United States law today, as interpreted about 20 years ago by the Supreme Court, allows colleges and universities to put a thumb on the scale...

unherd.com —  3+ day ago

...Speaking at the Hay Festival in Wales this week, Labour"s former press secretary suggested that the practice should become part of the “everyday... ...Alastair Campbell wants politics -- sorry, “big issues” or “arguing” -- taught in primary schools.... ...I certainly took more useful skills from my three years in the Manchester Debate Union than from my undergraduate degree.... ...Would that be the model for supplying teaching aids on sensitive political topics?...