Substacks recommended by Mike Hind

Recommended by Mike Hind

Chronicling events in the egalist utopia

Walking all the way across France to my new home in Provence

My partner P has started a newsletter, charting her search for a home in the South of France. Anyone who enjoys thoughtful wanderlust should enjoy this.

- Mike Hind

Archedelia

By Matthew B. Crawford

Toward a political theory of the present.

Numb at the Lodge

By Sam Kriss

These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here

Stillness in the West

By Jack Leahy

Thoughts on the contemplative life at the end of the Human Age. "Acquire the Spirit of Peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved.” --St. Seraphim of Sarov.

Over the Field

By Hadden Turner

Essays on agrarianism, sustainability, agriculture, rurality, ecology, Wendell Berry, and techno-scepticism.

Traps, cages and spells

By Nicholas.Wilkinson

Searching for the saola. Wondering what I'm doing wrong.

Rob Henderson's Newsletter

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

The Real Story

By Terry Glavin

All The News I Couldn't Fit In Print

Bentham's Newsletter

By Bentham's Bulldog

Utilitarianism, ethical veganism, culture war stuff, philosophy, morality, and more!

The Future of Leadership with Ed Brenegar

How we got here and where we are going.

Flat Caps and Fatalism

By FFatalism

From Yorkshire

Experimental History

By Adam Mastroianni

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

The Prism

By Gurwinder

A guide to navigating the Digital Age

Lean Out with Tara Henley

A current affairs newsletter, focusing on heterodox writers and thinkers from around the world.

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 Bigger Picture

By Alexander Beiner

Making sense of popular culture, philosophy, psychology, spirituality & psychedelics

Technopoptimism

By Daniel T

Examining where technology meets society

Occasional and always insightful. Dan's latest piece on not churning content for the sake of growth was among the best things I've read this month.

- Mike Hind

The Path Not Taken

By Thomas Prosser

Politics through the lens of institutional theory

Try Thomas Prosser's newsletter 'Tom's curiosity shop' for yourself. Expect insights and interpretations of the current political moment that are designed to help you navigate this weird current moment, rather than galvanise you into joining the culture war. Anything that prioritises clearer thought over furiously tippy tapping at your phone to join in with the chorus of outrage over The Current Thing is refreshing and that's what TCS does.

- Mike Hind

Grey Goose Chronicles

By Stone Age Herbalist

Dispatches from an anonymous scholar

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.

Wrong Side of History

By Ed West

It's Ed West's sub stack

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

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

Public

By Michael Shellenberger

Reporting on humanity, civilization, and the environment.

The Free Press

By Bari Weiss

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

Handwaving Freakoutery

This is a song about culture wars, futurism, apocalypta, and gun math.

The Abbey of Misrule

By Paul Kingsnorth

Do not be conformed to this world

Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology

By CSPI

Supporting research on how ideology and policy contribute to social and scientific progress.

The Honest Broker

By Roger Pielke Jr.

Making sense of science, policy and politics

Covidian Æsthetics

By Mónica Belevan

The shape of things to come: through a glass, sharply.

Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Foreign policy, American politics, and social science

Astral Codex Ten

By Scott Alexander

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

Excellence in thought exploration and insights

- Mike Hind

Stoic Observations

By Michael David Cobb Bowen

Discovery, humor & reason without ideological baggage.

The Ruffian

By Ian Leslie

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

Luke Burgis Newsletter

Pursuing the mysterium tremendum et fascinans and writing at the intersection of philosophy, culture, art, technology, and religious wisdom.

Because copying what everyone else wants won't make you happy

- Mike Hind

Fisted by Foucault

By Niccolo Soldo

You'll never think of Foucault the same way again

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

Less Foolish

By Peter N Limberg

Wisdom becoming more common.

Default Wisdom

By Default Friend

An emotional scrapbook of the Internet.

Reasonable People

By Tom Stafford

Psychological science on rationality, reason and persuasion

Singal-Minded

By Jesse Singal

A newsletter about science, social-justice-activism, why they sometimes fight, and how to help them get along better -- plus a good deal of other, more random stuff.

Rarely Certain

Recommended by Mike Hind