Substacks recommended by Gregg Easterbrook

Recommended by Gregg Easterbrook

Much of what we think is true just isn't. And there's data to prove it. Writing mostly about retirement security, with occasional side-trips.

Writes well about the kind of government fiscal issues the MSM ignore until it's too late.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Rebecca Traister

I often disagree but always read.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Pens and Poison

By Liza Libes

Pens and Poison is the literary project of author Liza Libes. Enter a world of literary analysis, philosophical musings, and other poetic ponderings.

Frank's Buffalo Born Babble

By Frank Mariani

A potpourri of cartoons, art and musings thrown at you from the biggest city on the mighty Niagara River.

The Edgy Optimist

By Zachary Karabell

Taking a weekly look at what might go right, rather than focusing relentlessly on all that is going wrong.

The Borowitz Report

By Andy Borowitz

Home of Truth

Oh man how did New Yorker let him get away!

- Gregg Easterbrook

Smashing Volatility

By Scott Murray

Options volatility analysis, perspectives and trade ideas. Chronicling zero-day (0DTE) options, short volatility trends, OPEX (expiration cycle), vixpiration, dispersion vol, seasonality of vol, vol ETFs, vol targeting and CTA funds.

You'd assume options markets are only of interest to specialists. This publication shows otherwise.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Mike on Politics

By Mike On Politics

My personal Substack

By a Brit who's roughly the Alex Berenson of the UK.

- Gregg Easterbrook

The Quiet Life with Susan Cain

The Quiet Life is for people who love quiet, depth, and beauty, and is read in all 193 countries and all 50 U.S. states. Join us for art, ideas, consolations, and candlelight chats. You'll never be forced to do anything groupy.

Her book about learning from sorrow -- Bittersweet -- is outstanding.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Maarten Boudry’s Substack

How do we make the future (even) better than the present? By using science, evidence and reason. Progressives need to embrace progress again.

Important intellectual on the European scene, and an original thinker (increasing rare in academia).

- Gregg Easterbrook

The Eternally Radical Idea with Greg Lukianoff

A blog about freedom of speech and both the Coddling & Canceling of the American Mind.

In addition to having a great name, this Stack is by Greg Lukianoff, a free speech defender from way back.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Wasn't That Special: 50 Years of SNL

A podcast reviewing 50 years of Saturday Night Live. With hosts Christian Schneider and Scot Bertram.

Some old SNL skits hold up surprisingly well.

- Gregg Easterbrook

All Cats Are Female

By Regan

consistently offers ideas you haven't already seen

- Gregg Easterbrook

Orthodox Conundrum Commentary

By Scott Kahn

I examine major issues affecting the Orthodox world, without exaggeration or whitewashing. I hope to spark wider discussion, thus enabling Orthodox Judaism to move forward where it excels, and to rectify that which needs improvement.

Scott Kahn is Da Man.

- Gregg Easterbrook

The Illusion of Consensus

By Rav Arora

An independent, podcast-fuelled newsletter devoted to dismantling weaponized "consensus" in science: COVID-19, transgender care, nutrition, and mental health.

Our Towns Civic Foundation Newsletter

By The Our Towns Flyer

Towns and cities nationwide are today’s incubators for ideas that will tell the modern story of American renewal. People are experimenting in innovative ways that drive progress. We share their stories here.

Invaluable reporting on small to midsized American towns

- Gregg Easterbrook

Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay

Your definitive guide to Substack growth from the world's leading Substack Strategist Sarah Fay ✦ A top-10 bestselling, featured Substack ✦ Let’s begin…

There are starting to be many Substacks about Substack. This one is the OG.

- Gregg Easterbrook

The Vitality Code

By Shai Plonski

"The Vitality Code" is here to help you implement both long and short term strategies and tactics for self-healing and unlocking your body's innate potential for vitality.

Practical advice on healing minor physical, and major emotional, injury.

- Gregg Easterbrook

the Human Carbohydrate

By Stella Tsantekidou

I am good for you

Sustainability by numbers

By Hannah Ritchie

Using data and research to understand what really makes a difference

The Garden of Forking Paths

By Brian Klaas

Wandering around an infinitely complex, ever changing world.

Poetry Today

By Maya C. Popa

Weekly poetry curations & literary lessons designed to transform your writing life

Had we but world enough and time, we'd all spend more of our lives with poetry.

- Gregg Easterbrook

One First

By Steve Vladeck

A weekly newsletter aiming to make the Supreme Court’s rulings, procedures, and history more accessible to all

Sustain What

By Andy Revkin

A regular dose of sanity and substance amid the spin around climate and sustainability challenges.

I Already Spent the $200

By Joseph C Simmons

Former comedian turned husband and father Joseph C. Simmons writes on how his life got to this. Please subscribe to have a few laughs or at least learn from his mistakes.

Comedy that has a sense of humor!

- Gregg Easterbrook

Changing The Channel with Kirsten Powers

New York Times bestselling author Kirsten Powers offers fresh thinking about how we can make big changes in our lives, communities and country.

The best media critics are the ones who fled the MSM.

- Gregg Easterbrook

The Unspeakeasy with Meghan Daum

By The Unspeakable with Meghan Daum

Home of The Unspeakeasy Podcast and The Unspeakeasy Live, a weekly livestream on Thursday at 3 pm ET featuring nuanced AF conversations with guests, friends and audience members. Plus new writing and updates from Meghan Daum.

Consistently Meghan makes me say to myself, "How come I never thought of that?"

- Gregg Easterbrook

Read, Watch, Write

By Karin Manley

Read books, watch movies, write thoughts

Castalia

By Sam Kahn

Intellectual Journal - essays, stories, reflections

A recurring them of "how to stay sane." What causes sanity is as important as what causes unhappiness.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Ghost Stories

By Ruth Franklin

For people who think critically about books. An insider perspective on book publishing, writing criticism, and my biography currently in production, THE MANY LIVES OF ANNE FRANK. Also featuring an occasional group read of Israeli and Palestinian authors.

from one of our generation's best working book critics

- Gregg Easterbrook

Captain K's Corner

By Capt. Seth Keshel

Actionable Intelligence for The Fourth Turning.

clear winner of the 2024 election forecast brackets, plus great analysis of data in public life.

- Gregg Easterbrook

OpenTheBooks

By Open the Books

Transparency revolutionizes U.S. public policy and politics.

99% of what government stamps SECRET should be disclosed to taxpayers!

- Gregg Easterbrook

PastPresentFuture

By Dan Gardner

Exploring history to understand today and shape a better tomorrow.

The author is consistently wise and doesn't take himself too seriously.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Experimental History

By Adam Mastroianni

1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.

Challenging the notion of moral decline.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Robert Bryce

Energy, power, innovation, and politics.

Nobody knows kilowatt hours like Bryce.

- Gregg Easterbrook

How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

By Yuri Bezmenov // Subversion Substack

A dissident's guide to modern urban progressive life through sarcasm, memes, and data.

"Yuri" is consistently on target about modern pretensions. Wish I knew who he really is.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Sophia

Head of Writer Relations @Substack

There is no more discerning eye than Sophia's.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Peter Osnos Public Affairs Press

By Peter L.W. Osnos

An especially good view -- watching history happen

There are people who know the book industry, then there is Peter Osnos.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Working on Winning the Climate Fight

Even if you don't buy into climate doomsday, McKibben is invaluable.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Through a Glass Darkly

By Emily Stimpson Chapman

Church teaching for the head and the heart.

Breaking the News

By James Fallows

Dispatches from a veteran reporter

Wonder why The Atlantic has gone downhill? Because now Jim Fallows writes here instead of there.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Unreported Truths

By Alex Berenson

Independent, citizen-funded journalism

We live at a moment when the media want to censor dissent and forbid debate. This should scare everyone. Alex fights back.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Doomberg

A lateral-thinking approach to energy, finance, and geopolitics | Subscribe below for free previews of new articles | Click through to our About page for pricing and FAQ.

Straight talk about energy production and the economy. Plus the best logo (the blinking green chicken) on Substack.

- Gregg Easterbrook

OLD GOATS with Jonathan Alter

Ruminating with friends

Back when the Rolodex existed, Alter had the best one in modern journalism. He still knows who to call.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Sherman Alexie

poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video

as a Colorado boy, I can't get enough of his stories and commentary.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Thinking about...

By Timothy Snyder

Opening the future by understanding the past.

Snyder is one of the top working historians, Ukraine and Russia are his specialties.

- Gregg Easterbrook

The Elysian

By Elle Griffin

Our systems are failing, let’s design what comes next! Join us for utopian journalism that innovates democracy, reimagines capitalism, and architects a better future.

You and I won't live to experience utopia, but it's possible others will. Elle is on this case.

- Gregg Easterbrook

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

Come for the cultural references, stay for the cultural references.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Freddie deBoer

cool but rude

One of the few in the social media universe whose next sentence cannot be predicted.

- Gregg Easterbrook

All Predictions Wrong

Recommended by Gregg Easterbrook