Substacks recommended by Aaron Zinger

Recommended by Aaron Zinger

DYNOMIGHT INTERNET NEWSLETTER

By dynomight

science and existential angst

Thinking Out Loud

By Kelsey Piper

trying to be a little clearer

McSweeney's Internet Substackency

By McSweeney's Internet Tendency Substack

The substack of McSweeney's Internet Tendency, McSweeney's Publishing's humor & satire website.

Laneless

By Jai

You don't have to go home but you can't stay in your lane

The Leap

By Maria Konnikova

A weekly-(ish) newsletter about decision making, risk, poker, cheating, paying attention, literature...and any other random topic that may interest me. No promises - and no topic off limits!

Telescopic Turnip

By Malmesbury

Nothing in life makes sense even in the light of evolution

At Midnight, All the Agents...

By João & Lucia

try not to write

Papyrus Rampant

By Evan Þ

Story, history, and theory of story - from reading books to telling the story of history to reflecting on how story is told.

Ottoman Encounters

By Doga

My goal for my Substack is to make Ottoman and Middle Eastern history more accessible to a general audience.

Folded Papers

By Gemma Mason

A personal substack with musings on philosophy and politics.

a newsletter

By sympathetic opposition

essays, stories, and poems largely about books, cooking, & people

The Intrinsic Perspective

By Erik Hoel

Natural philosophy, belles-lettres, polemics.

Conspicuous Cognition

By Dan Williams

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

Practical epistemology is probably the most important story in the world right now, and nobody's doing it better.

- Aaron Zinger

The Optimist's Barn

By Robert Yaman

A techno-optimist's lens on farm animal welfare.

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

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

Bold, insightful, progressive, patriotic, and witty commentary on current events.

- Aaron Zinger

A Small Kernel

By Amica Terra

Something hardy and ready to grow.

Silver Bulletin

By Nate Silver

Essays and analysis about elections, media, sports, poker, and all the other things I care about.

Potentially Interesting Roman History

By James Coverley

Answers to Questions About Roman History

Asterisk Magazine

Substack mirror of www.asteriskmag.com New pieces on Mondays

Mind Meandering

By Connor Jennings

Thoughts on life, tech, philosophy, and whatever else I happen to be interested in. Dumb jokes included. Any money given I'll pass to Farmkind here: https://www.farmkind.giving/

EMILY’s Substack

By EMILY WILSON

My personal Substack

If you're at all here for my amateur translation attempts, here's the pro who translated Homer, explaining her process.

- Aaron Zinger

Thing of Things

By Ozy Brennan

The nicest herrenmoralist

Woman of Letters

By Naomi Kanakia

I write about the Great Books, classic literature, and the contemporary publishing world.

Astral Codex Ten

By Scott Alexander

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

The Millionth Littering

By the hydra

piles of words

Stolen (or saved?) from the Library of Alexandria

By Nikolai N.

The Machine knows too many things; sometimes that's disturbing, sometimes heartening

Hiding as Plain Sight

By William of Hammock

How to defy an Attention Economy that gerrymanders our (in)attention, and how to sit out the dance choreographed by Cynicism herself? Oh, I was hoping you could tell me.

Secular Mornings

By Tyler

Homilies from the secular canon

Jewish Ecology

By Jordan

This is a blog presenting various ideas at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the unique case of Jewish Life. Through synthesizing spirituality and science, I hope to foster dialogue and renew Judaism within a humanistic and ecological context.

tikkun olam

- Aaron Zinger