Substacks recommended by Arnold Kling

Recommended by Arnold Kling

My personal Substack

A regular newsletter that aggregates the most recent news columns in the United States along with an evaluation from credAIble.com.

Dan Williams

Writer. Academic philosopher. Writing about philosopy, psychology, evolution, politics, artificial intelligence, and more.

His interests and our approaches overlap considerably with mine.

- Arnold Kling

The Grumpy Economist

By John H. Cochrane

News, views, and commentary from a free market point of view. I moved from Blogger to Substack in December 2023. For previous posts back to 2011 see my Blogger page at https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com

Listening to the Sirens

By Russ Roberts

Life in Israel during and after October 7

The Eternally Radical Idea

By Greg Lukianoff

A blog about freedom of speech and both the coddling & canceling of the American mind.

Forked Lightning

By David Deming

News and opinion. Education and economics. Let's fork some lightning.

Listener’s Substack

Some interesting things I heard on podcasts that week.

Vaish’s Substack

By Vaishnav Sunil

My personal Substack

The Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century Podcast

By Jon Hartley

This podcast hosted by Jon Hartley is focused on getting into the weeds of economics, finance and public policy through one-on-one interviews discussing each guest's career and main ideas.

Wall Street Fintech

By Van Spina

Fintech is full of sexy companies. This blog will cover none of them! Follow along to learn about the tech, systems, and people that run Wall Street.

wutrain

By Michelle Wu

The latest from a Boston mom and mayor on the magic of cities

Ruxandra’s Substack

By Ruxandra Teslo

Pro-progress, anti-safetyist commentary on Scientific & Cultural matters from a Genomics PhD. Attempting to shape culture towards optimism, an abundance mindset & freedom.

Understanding AI

By Timothy B Lee

Exploring how AI works and how it's changing our world.

Insightful posts on an important topic

- Arnold Kling

Generation Tech

By Jean M. Twenge

Psychologist and author Jean M. Twenge shares the latest research on teens & social media, generational differences, and trends in mental health -- plus tips for finding a better balance with technology.

Marc Andreessen Substack

My personal Substack. Personal views only. Actually, not even personal views. I don't even know what my personal views are anymore. It doesn't matter. Read anyway!

Dr. Paul

Welcome to my personal Substack, where we explore psychology, philosophy, and emerging research in behavioral health from an ordinary person perspective. We learn lessons from literature, film, drama, headline news, popular culture and fine art.

The Great Gender Divergence

By Alice Evans

Why has the world become more gender equal? Why are some societies more gender equal than others?

provocative and interesting

- Arnold Kling

As Clay Awakens

By Jacob Buckman

Assorted musings on artificial intelligence. Come for the bad takes, stay for the good times.

David Friedman’s Substack

Ideas about a wide variety of subjects

Play Makes Us Human

By Peter Gray

Letters about the roles of play in human evolution, child development, culture, and daily living

Mimir's Well

By Mark McNeilly

Welcome to Mimir’s Well, Mark McNeilly’s newsletter. In Norse mythology, Mimir’s Well is where Odin drank from to gain wisdom. It is for those who are curious about everything. My goal: to share interesting ideas with you on the past, present & future.

Glenn’s Substack

By Glenn Harlan Reynolds

thoughts and observations from Glenn Reynolds.

Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

By Jane Psmith

The P is silent, as in pshrimp or pseudonym.

Implications, by Scott Belsky

What to expect from the latest advances in tech, shifts in culture, and evolution in the art and science of product design and building teams.

Coleman’s Corner

By Coleman Hughes

Searching for truth in an uncertain world

Overcoming Bias

By Robin Hanson

This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, how we might do better, and what our descendants might do, if they don't all die.

I always read. I sometimes understand.

- Arnold Kling

The View from Culllingworth

By Simon Cooke

Housing, planning and the love of place - views from a conservative

Joe Lonsdale

Ideas and dialectic on technology, policy & philosophy.

After Babel

By Jon Haidt

Using moral psychology to explain why so much is going wrong

reports on research on the adverse impact of social media

- Arnold Kling

Archedelia

By Matthew B. Crawford

Toward a political theory of the present.

One Useful Thing

By Ethan Mollick

Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

By far my favorite essays on practical uses for large language models

- Arnold Kling

Cremieux Recueil

I discuss papers that ought to be discussed.

Patterns in Humanity

By Inquisitive Bird

Analyses and thoughts about the human condition.

Fave Five

By Stan Garfield

Weekly Picks and Pics for Books, Restaurants, Music, Sports, and Humor

Offbeat cultural recommendations and puns from a long-time friend

- Arnold Kling

Second Best

By Samuel Hammond

Imperfect takes with uncertain payoff

Much deeper than a think tank

- Arnold Kling

The Permanent Problem

By Brink Lindsey

the quest to "live wisely and agreeably and well"

Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi

An alternative to the infantilised & narcissistic turn of Western Culture

Range Widely

By David Epstein

The newsletter for generalists.

brings interesting ideas to your attention

- Arnold Kling

Nathan Cofnas’s Newsletter

Philosophy, politics, and culture

Erdmann Housing Tracker

By Kevin Erdmann

How housing costs got here and where they're going.

Essential reading if you are interested in the housing market

- Arnold Kling

Intimations of a New Worldview

By Brett Andersen

Psychology, evolution, complexity, mythology, and the meaning crisis.

Homo Imaginari

By James F. Richardson

popular social science thinking for curious folks.

Bullfish Hole

By Jason Manning

Sociology, science, history, and books.

get your sociology here

- Arnold Kling

The Unspeakable with Meghan Daum

Home of The Unspeakable Podcast. Plus new writing from Meghan Daum!

Fake Noûs

By Fake Nous

Reasonable thoughts about philosophy, politics, and other interesting stuff.

Tracing Woodgrains

By TracingWoodgrains

A former Mormon's chaotic pursuit of order in a world gone mad

Submission

By Marilyn Simon

This is a thought experiment. A joyful experiment. A naughty experiment. A freeing experiment. Without resentment or bitterness, I want to consider what it means to be a woman. My thoughts turn not towards equality, but towards joy. Thanks for reading! -M

Matt Goodwin

Politics analysed differently

Wood From Eden

By Anders L

Making glulam of the tree of knowledge.

Aporia

Ideas for a future worth wanting.

Bet On It

By Bryan Caplan

Caplan and Candor

Bryan Caplan is provocative

- Arnold Kling

Musings on Markets

By Aswath Damodaran

Investing, Markets and Business

Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Human nature, psychology, social class, luxury beliefs, and more.

One of my favorite substacks. Always interesting

- Arnold Kling

A History of Mankind

By David Roman

The entire history of mankind, in regular installments. Not just European stuff, but the history of all mankind, from the Americas to Sub-Saharan Africa & Oceania

Unsafe Science

By Lee Jussim

Social science, common sense, and skepticism applied to controversial topics, and occasional personal takes and twists.

Konstantin Kisin

Politically Non-Binary Opinions on Culture, Politics and Comedy

Science Is Not The Answer

By William M Briggs

The philosophy of science and scientism, and putting uncertainty in its place.

The Scroll

We read the Internet all day so you don't have to.

The Watch

By Radley Balko

Reporting and commentary on civil liberties and the criminal justice system. Plus other stuff.

Experimental History

By Adam Mastroianni

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

Comment is Freed

By Sam Freedman

Politics, policy analysis, and foreign affairs from Sam and Lawrence Freedman

Virginia's Newsletter

By Virginia Postrel

Commerce, culture, and curiosity

Novum Newsletter

By Anton Cebalo

culture, politics, history, new ideas

The Prism

By Gurwinder

A guide to navigating the Digital Age

Very Serious

By Josh Barro

Josh Barro's newsletter about politics, the economy and culture.

Don't Worry About the Vase

By Zvi Mowshowitz

A world made of gears. Doing both speed premium short term updates and long term world model building. Currently focused on weekly AI updates. Explorations include AI, policy, rationality, medicine and fertility, education and games.

The Zvi sponges up information on a topic and delivers it to you. Another star of my Fantasy Intellectual Teams contest.

- Arnold Kling

GWAS Stories

By Veera M. Rajagopal

A newsletter on the latest advances in human genetics and drug discovery.

important topic, insightful writer

- Arnold Kling

Just Emil Kirkegaard Things

By Emil O. W. Kirkegaard

No filter science

Ben Yeoh, Then Do Better

By Benjamin Yeoh

Arts, Investing, Sustainability, Culture, Life.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shares thoughts about sports, politics, and popular culture and how they define America.

Cracks in Postmodernity

By Stephen G. Adubato

Subverting subversiveness through pretentious and ironic cultural commentary that gives precedence to aesthetics and ontology over ethics and politics.

CalculatedRisk Newsletter

By CalculatedRisk Real Estate News

Real Estate Data and Analysis

Links and stuff

If it evolved, it's fair game.

Heather is a courageous and careful thinker

- Arnold Kling

Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism

By FAIR Substack

Promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding, and humanity.

Outstanding coverage of the anti-Woke movement

- Arnold Kling

Journal of Free Black Thought

Black viewpoint diversity

Writers escaping the Woke Plantation

- Arnold Kling

Not On Your Team, But Always Fair

By Helen Dale

Bric-a-Brac, Curios, and Complaints from a professional irritant, novelist, and retired lawyer.

Where I go for Lorenzo Warby's essays and also Helen's posts

- Arnold Kling

Rozado’s Visual Analytics

By David Rozado Newsletter

Underexplored Research Topics

Random Walk

By Moses Sternstein

"A multidisciplinary cast of mind . . . with a yen for synthesis." - Charlie Munger (about himself, not Random Walk)

Randomly finds interesting charts and trends

- Arnold Kling

Apricitas Economics

By Joseph Politano

Data-driven Insights on Economics, Business, Finance, and Public Policy.

The Macro Compass

By Substack

Financial education, macro insights & actionable investment ideas. From the desk of a former Head of $20 bn Investment Portfolio straight to your inbox.

Doc Hammer's Anvil

By Doctor Hammer

Shaping Ideas on Life Economics, and Sometimes Metal

a newsletter for infovores.

By Infovores Newsletter

Navigating a world of infinite knowledge

Takes Tyler Cowen's Age of the Infovore meme and runs with it.

- Arnold Kling

The Intrinsic Perspective

By Erik Hoel

Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities

The Upheaval

By N.S. Lyons (The Upheaval)

Exploring the shared upheavals of our era, including technological and cultural change, the ideological revolution consuming the West, the rise of China, and the crisis of liberalism.

Insights into where our culture is heading

- Arnold Kling

SemiAnalysis

By Dylan Patel

Bridging the gap between the world's most important industry, semiconductors, and business.

Known Unknowns

By Allison Schrager

how risk drives our world, the macro economy, and markets. and pensions too.

Allison Schrager, a genuine Ph.D economist who writes for a general audience

- Arnold Kling

The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter

By Steve Stewart-Williams

The newsletter of Professor Steve Stewart-Williams. Evolutionary psychology, sex differences, nature and nurture, science, philosophy, and more.

Escaping Flatland

By Henrik Karlsson

When my daughters aren’t hiding my notebooks, I write essays about stuff that makes me feel human

Scott's Substack

By Scott Cunningham (Professor

Deep dives into causal inference,("explainers"), an oral history of economics podcast told through economists' personal stories, announcements about workshops, letters from readers and random ChatGPT things.

Wrong Side of History

By Ed West

It's Ed West's sub stack

interesting links to depressing essays

- Arnold Kling

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis

Israel from the Inside is for people who want to understand Israel with nuance, who believe that Israel is neither hopelessly flawed and illegitimate, nor beyond critique. If thoughtful analysis of Israel and its people interests you, welcome!

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

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

Freddie deBoer

cool but rude

Freddie is a stylish writer, not for all tastes

- Arnold Kling

Reactionary Feminist

By Mary Harrington

Feminism Against Progress

Public

By Michael Shellenberger

Reporting on humanity, civilization, and the environment.

eugyppius: a plague chronicle

We are witnessing an unprecedented, comprehensive failure of policy, medicine and science. The world will never be the same.

The Free Press

By Bari Weiss

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

Bari hosts many interesting writers

- Arnold Kling

Glenn Loury

Race, inequality, and economics in the US and throughout the world, by Glenn Loury, Paulson Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute

Glenn pours his heart into his work. His stage show with comedians was priceless

- Arnold Kling

A New Way of Knowing

See the world as it is, not as you wish it to be. Everything else is application.

Holly’s Substack

By Holly MathNerd

a mix of anti-Woke cultural commentary, personal reflections, math lessons, and a regular creative writing feature

Reality’s Last Stand

By Reality's Last Stand

A publication by evolutionary biologist Dr. Colin Wright. Holding the line on free speech, science, and reality.

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

Start your day with pragmatic takes on politics and public policy.

Rod Dreher's Diary

An eclectic portmanteau of culture, religion, politics, books, food and ideas

Nabeel S. Qureshi

By Nabeel Qureshi

Essays.

Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Foreign policy, American politics, and social science

Often original and thought-provoking

- Arnold Kling

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

Conversations on genetics, history, politics, books, culture and evolution

One of the most brilliant, erudite people in the world

- Arnold Kling

Astral Codex Ten

By Scott Alexander

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

When Scott researches a topic, he is incredibly thorough and fair

- Arnold Kling

The Lee Show

By Lee Bressler

Lee Bressler, Jew with the mind of a champion, tells stories and discusses current events.

perspective on markets, the economy, and other issues

- Arnold Kling

Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky

Personal stories and lessons from inside the rise and fall of the PC revolution

Dwarkesh Podcast

By Dwarkesh Patel

Deeply researched interviews

The FREOPP.org Substack

By Avik Roy

A newsletter from the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a non-profit, non-partisan think tank focused on expanding economic opportunity to those who least have it.

Persuasion

By Yascha Mounk

The community for those who believe that a free society is worth fighting for.

Yascha Mounk hosts interesting writers with diverse viewpoints. I appreciate that he has transcripts of his podcasts.

- Arnold Kling

The Weekly Dish

By Andrew Sullivan

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle," - Orwell

Andrew is fun when you agree with him, irritating when you don't. Always provocative.

- Arnold Kling

Year Zero

By Wesley Yang

An ongoing inquiry into the ideological fever that overtook the governing and chattering classes of America during the Trump years

Pirate Wires

By Mike Solana

technology, politics, culture

The Ruffian

By Ian Leslie

Ian Leslie picks out the most important, interesting and beautiful signals from the noise.

Hold That Thought by Sarah Haider

By Sarah Haider

More light, less heat.

Gray Mirror

By Curtis Yarvin (Gray Mirror)

A portal to the next regime

Fisted by Foucault

By Niccolo Soldo

You'll never think of Foucault the same way again

Funny, Irreverent, and finds stories I don't see elsewhere

- Arnold Kling

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

Default Wisdom

By Default Friend

An emotional scrapbook of the Internet.

Aaron Renn

By Aaron M. Renn

Compelling insights on society, Christianity, family, cities, politics and economics.

Maiden Mother Matriarch

By Louise Perry

A podcast about sexual politics, hosted by Louise Perry.

Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Tales from the history of innovation.

Nonzero Newsletter

By Robert Wright

Politics, psychology, and tips on averting the apocalypse.

Bob was a star in the Fantasy Intellectual Teams contest I ran last year. Very willing to debate fairly with an open mind.

- Arnold Kling

Erik Torenberg

Explorations and inquiries into my curiosities: culture, politics, tech, business, and human nature

Erik is a polymath who will have interesting things to say on many subjects

- Arnold Kling

Ribbonfarm Studio

By Venkatesh Rao

Ribbonfarm Studio: Serialized projects from the Ribbonfarm blog

Racket News

By Matt Taibbi

News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.

On Substack

By Substack Writers

Resources, news, and stories for and about writers. Written by the Substack team.

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