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<title><![CDATA[Mary Harrington - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/44681.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mary Harrington]]></description><category domain="44681">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Hollywood Devoured Hayden Panettiere]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2026/08/how-hollywood-devoured-hayden-panettiere/?edition=us</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Child stars often fall]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Reform Is Eating Labour's Lunch]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2026/06/how-reform-ate-labours-lunch/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mainstream progressives win a landslide General Election against a backdrop of anti-Conservative disaffection. In that election, a lower-class party formed just a few years before stands candidates for the first time. To everyone'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s shock, the new party wins seats in Parliament.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Media Is Silent About Iryna Zarutska's Murder]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/newsroom/why-is-the-media-silent-about-iryna-zarutskas-murder/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A video showing the murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on public transport in Charlotte, North Carolina, has sent shockwaves round the world. It has also reignited debate over the widening ideological gulf in news reporting. The video shows Zarutska sitting alone,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Emptiness of AI Ethics]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/newsroom/groks-antisemitism-lays-bare-the-emptiness-of-ai-ethics/?us</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What happened to Grok? Recent updates to the X website's built-in chatbot have caused shockwaves, with Grok referring to itself as MechaHitler, propagating antisemitic talking points, fantasising about rape, and blaming Mossad for the death of Jeffrey Epstein. The offensive posts have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Greta Thunberg Wearing a Keffiyeh?]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2024/05/why-is-greta-wearing-a-keffiyeh/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why is Greta Thunberg'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' wearing a keffiyeh? The Swedish activist is the poster-girl for climate change. The keffiyeh, though, symbolises a wholly different cause: solidarity with Palestinians in the current conflict with Israel. What does that have to do with global warming?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressive Attacks on the U.S. Constitution Escalate]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/newsroom/progressive-attacks-on-the-us-constitution-escalate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is America still governed by the Constitution? Back in the 1980s, the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Columbia Law Review'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' advocated'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' clarifying the law to protect journalists'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' First Amendment, rights even on private property. Just today, though,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Blaze'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' reporter Steve Baker was wasarrested'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' by the FBI'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Abigail Shrier's Book Paints a Devastating Picture]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2024/02/bad-therapy-is-stunting-our-kids/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The vast majority of therapists today are women. So, too, are the vast majority of their clients. But the earliest ones were almost all men. And, whatever we think of him now, Sigmund Freud'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ideas on infant development were more fully elaborated for boys than girls.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Davos Consensus Is Finally Cracking]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/thepost/the-davos-consensus-is-finally-cracking/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The bulk of reports percolating out of the WEF'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s annual meeting have been'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' scornful, revealing a proposed programme of enlightened elite global governance that is not going as planned. Geopolitics is back with a vengeance; the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'energy transition'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' has turned out, so far,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Signs a Conservative Counter-Revolution Is Coming]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2023/07/the-conservative-case-for-revolution/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Aeschylus'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s tragedy Agamemnon begins with the fall of Troy. Clytemnestra, wife of the Greek king, hears news of victory, and imagines the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'clash of cries'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in the captured city, as the victors and the vanquished mingle.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Intolerant New York Is Losing Its Intellectual Heft]]></title>
							<link>https://compactmag.com/article/i-was-canceled-for-saying-sex-is-real</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2006, I visited New York City for the first time. A member of the city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s cultural cognoscenti flew me over, on the strength of one blog comment I had left, to participate in a colloquium on the digital transformation of society. That experience left me with an indelible love of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elite White Women Push Gender-Bending Ideas]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/04/07/elite-white-women-push-idea-that-theres-no-such-thing-as-gender/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Noted female impersonator Dylan Mulvaney is, it seems, the face of literally everything these days.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does the Right Need Techno-Trumpism?]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2023/03/does-the-right-need-techno-trumpism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His vision is Reaganism with a side order of Jetsons]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Kids In the Grip of a Gender Contagion]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/12/20/american-kids-are-in-the-grip-of-a-gender-contagion/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Surely nothing can stop the white-coated vultures feasting on American teen unhappiness, save the fear of eye-watering compensation payouts. Let the court cases begin.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Twilight of the Disney Princess]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2022/09/the-twilight-of-the-disney-princess/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, as hundreds of thousands queued to see the mortal remains of our Queen lying in state, I stood in a shorter queue, to see a different queen in the flesh. The occasion was my daughter'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s long-planned birthday excursion to the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' West End musical staging of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Frozen. And it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Peter Thiel on the Fantasy of Progress Amidst Stagnation]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2022/07/peter-thiel-on-the-dangers-of-progress/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You can tell a bit about someone based on their preconceptions about Peter Thiel. Whether the reflexive response to the name is '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'malign far-Right plutocrat'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';', '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'philanthropic saviour of all that is good'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' or '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'who?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is a reasonably reliable guide to where that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rise of the Liberal Groomer]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2022/04/the-rise-of-the-liberal-groomer/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Harrington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Does progress have to mean the sexual liberation of children? Michel Foucault thought so, as did many of the now high-ranking Labour Party members who once supported the Paedophile Information Exchange. Sexual interest in children is hardly unique to the modern world, of course, or...]]></description>
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