Exploring critical, philosophical, and scientific debates in psychiatric practice and the psy-sciences

A hub for the work of the Internet's "King of Content" covering culture, politics, labor, and athletics with a perspective informed by decades of work in marketing, sales, and the rotted-out carcass of academia.

Explorations in Faith

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.

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

The reader is my notebook

Writing and reflections on culture and religion.

literature & culture

A traveller in an antique land.

Newsletter of the former editor in chief of The Happy Reader. A magazine as well, in its way

Regular news and features by award-winning author and investigative reporter, Matt Taibbi.

A heterodox journal of culture, ideas and political economy

The best literary and arts writing on the internet

Examining the intersection of the Christian moral life and the church’s life in the world. Specializing in cold takes and nuance.

Frames is a monthly newsletter that sheds light on the most important issues concerning business and technology.

An emotional scrapbook of the Internet.

These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here

My personal Substack

Exclusive fiction too out-there for prime time, by the author of Fight Club. Writing lessons. Lurid back story.

explorations at the intersections of deep time, theology, the human past, and the fraught present "The adaptations, the fusions / the transmogrifications / but always / the inward continuities / of the site / of place"

Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire. Also: AI in research and teaching.

writing whatever

Dispatches on the Politics of Attention

"The funniest philosopher on Substack" - Henry Oliver | "Sharp and witty, with great humor always underlain by an earnest desire to figure things out." - Justin Smith-Ruiu

cool but rude

The free, weekly features of America’s oldest general-interest monthly.

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Passages is a place to gather around philosophy, poetry, and novels to explore ideas and build community together.

Nine Circles +

Premonitions and reckonings. Orpheus and Eros. An antidote to positivity.

News and Updates

Stories, poems, thoughts & more stories: the Alphabet Soup in my mind just keeps simmering.

Bird photos, notes about reading, and the odd essay from the novelist Caleb Crain

Ergo is a nonprofit that publishes long-form lecture courses with leading scholars. We explore philosophy from the ancient world to the present, alongside foundational ideas across the arts and sciences. Everything we publish is freely available.

Lawrence Weschler's Fortnightly Compendium of the Miscellaneous Diverse.

A newsletter and podcast about the contemporary American intellectual scene.

observations, mostly philosophical, mostly small

What computers will do for, or to, mathematics and mathematicians

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

Criticism, essays, etc.

Essays by Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly columnist and author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), What If This Were Enough? (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2011)

The Sun Is God: New Writing by Nina Power

The person asking a question at the beginning of a Tarot card reading. Or, a newsletter project by Alexander Chee.

Weekly essays on how technology reshapes how we create and consume culture, plus updates on my book and writing.

Do not be conformed to this world

You'll never think of Foucault the same way again

Lapham’s Quarterly embodies the belief that history is the root of all education. Each issue addresses a topic of current interest and concern by bringing voices from the past up to the microphone of the present.