For all its faults (and there are many, which I’ve touched on before), there really is a lot of — dare I say — good content on Substack. That’s not to say that it outweighs the bad, necessarily, but the platform is structured in such a way that you’re not being force-fed content you don’t want via some weird algorithm.
I read a bunch of Substacks for a variety of reasons. Some have a really creative premise (see: Walk It Off), some have the kind of reader engagement I could only dream of (see: Popular Information), and some are just so extremely well-written (see: Galaxy Brain) that I feel the need to share them with everyone I see. I figure that the bad Substacks get enough attention, so below I’ve listed 17 of my favorites.
But my question for you, dear reader: What are some of your favorite Substacks? Drop a link in the comments and/or plug your own!
What are some of your favorite Substacks?
For all its faults (and there are many, which I’ve touched on before), there really is a lot of — dare I say — good content on Substack. That’s not to say that it outweighs the bad, necessarily, but the platform is structured in such a way that you’re not being force-fed content you don’t want via some weird algorithm.
I read a bunch of Substacks for a variety of reasons. Some have a really creative premise (see: Walk It Off), some have the kind of reader engagement I could only dream of (see: Popular Information), and some are just so extremely well-written (see: Galaxy Brain) that I feel the need to share them with everyone I see. I figure that the bad Substacks get enough attention, so below I’ve listed 17 of my favorites.
But my question for you, dear reader: What are some of your favorite Substacks? Drop a link in the comments and/or plug your own!
Anand Giridharadas’ The Ink:
Ashley Feinberg’s Trashberg:
Charlie Warzel’s Galaxy Brain:
Judd Legum’s Popular Information:
Dan Pfeiffer’s The Message Box:
Teddy Wilson’s Radical Reports:
Emily Atkin’s HEATED:
David Roberts’ Volts:
Isaac Fitzgerald’s Walk It Off:
Luke O’Neil’s Welcome to Hell World:
Kate Lindsay and Nick Catucci’s Embedded:
Rusty Foster’s Today in Tabs:
Christopher Ingraham’s The Why Axis:
Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Lucid:
Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American:
Spencer Ackerman’s Forever Wars:
Jeet Heer’s The Time of Monsters:
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