Better Influencing and Viewpoint Diversity

Opportunities with Substack

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Sometimes charges of harboring Nazis and racists reach precincts you wouldn’t expect, but then sometimes those charges need context and explanation.

In January 2024, independent (but very progressive) journalist Jonathan Katz wrote a post about Substack’s content moderation policies, alleging the large presence of Nazis and racists on the Substack platform, and describing his interactions with Substack’s CEO and other staff, in pressing them on their toleration of various hate-mongers. Having exited Substack himself, along with other likeminded writers, Katz made his case on the beehiv platform. He pointed to Substack’s lack of strong content moderation policies as alleged complicity in encouraging toxic viewpoints in the name of “viewpoint diversity.” Others joined his chorus in making similar claims.

The reality is that Substack, since its founding in 2017, has cultivated a wide group of writers, artists, and “creatives,” and continues its trajectory toward a large role among alternative media platforms. As part of that growth, Substack founders articulated a large free speech perspective that allows viewpoints that many find offensive. They believe in a generally liberal free speech environment that promotes the freedom of writers and their readers to interact, disagree, and develop conversations between the individual writers or writing groups themselves, who determine the specific norms for behavior in Comments, Notes, and chats available on the platform. (For example, our Heterodoxy in the Stacks guidelines follow the Heterodox Academy core principles of open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement).

Substack’s Content Guidelines enumerate what is not permitted. Substack prohibits doxxing, true threats, violent harassment, impersonation, plagiarism, spamming and phishing, pornography, and other violations. Some of these accord well with First Amendment law and precedents set by the U.S. Supreme Court, including those addressing “hate speech.” In other words, even Nazis and those engaging in speech considered racist or offensive in other ways must be given free speech/free expression rights on a platform such as Substack—a cornerstone of our legal system that writers like Katz may acknowledge, but think is superseded by a greater claim to protection from “harm” or from “polluting the discourse” or spreading of “misinformation.”

The controversies surrounding “publishing Nazis” did result in Substack’s suspending five accounts with about 100 subscribers total, not a huge audience, but those sites did feature violent or overt Nazi iconography. According to the Free Speech Tracker, the reaction to Substack’s action was mixed, with some journalists condemning the lax content moderation guidelines, while others, such as Matt Yglesias and Bryan Caplan, encouraging a better perspective on the proportionality of the “Nazi” problem on Substack, or urging an even stronger free speech outlook to encourage maximum viewpoint diversity. Ever the iconoclast, Caplan subtitled his own article on free speech and censorship on Substack: “The real reason to keep even nazis on the platform.”

Among controversies involved in free expression rights, content moderation, and online censorship, the “publishing Nazis on Substack” debate figures much less prominently than the oft-celebrated and much-ballyhooed Twitter Files drama, because the latter involved ostensible government censorship, and was held up, overheatedly by some, as an example of incipient totalitarianism. A more balanced perspective was—and is—possible, concerning the potential hazards of social media companies’ censorship due to lack of transparency and clarity about policies, without some of the overstated claims made about the supposed “smoking guns” found in internal company documentation from (x)/Twitter. The cast of characters involved in the Twitter files controversy, including Elon Musk, Bari Weiss, Matt Taibbi, and Michael Shellenberger, have all moved along different paths that have taken them out of their coalition of convenience into their own corners of audience expansion and “influencing.”

The most telling aspect of these two contrasting tales of censorship, free expression, and online content moderation—in effect, two “narratives” about these fraught issues-- is the great difficulty for those involved in making decisions about appropriateness of content in spaces where millions of subscribers and readers can either potentially be offended, put at risk with falsehoods, find their views ignored, or downranked by an algorithm.

These two “narratives”—the Twitter Files “narrative” and the “Nazis Publishing on Substack narrative”-- live into the present moment to illustrate these imponderably difficult decisions in the midst of uncertainty, with political motivations at play among all parties involved, and the further atomization of our public discourse about matters of large public interest—elections and politics, viral diseases, vaccines, climate change, media and its effects, gender roles, generational changes, and most recently, of course, the rule of law, due process and the rights of immigrants and international students, and academic freedom in our universities.

But the special features and philosophy underpinning Substack offer a way toward “better influencing,” on these fraught issues and others--in contrast with what we think of as “social media” driven by algorithms, and that magical word, “engagement.” This “better influencing” model encourages more informed public discourse, of which viewpoint diversity is an essential element. In this way, Substack lives up to the values and precepts of free speech that are foundational to democratic discourse, even if the occasional Nazi has used the platform to spread noxious ideas and imagery.

The Ethos and Affordances of Substack

These content moderation controversies widen the aperture for us in reflecting on the digital media landscape and where Substack fits within it, and how informed use of Substack as a platform, and its affordances—its special technical features—might enable the library profession to contribute to a better-informed citizenry. I propose this opportunity not in a narrow activist way, but in a larger way that promotes civic health through informed reading, reflection, and discussion.

The founders of Substack imagine a vision of democratic community-building among writers, artists, and “creatives” who can interact with their own subscribers and build relationships with them over time. In this way, Substack is relational and interactive and “influencing” in a positive way beyond much of what passes for “influencer” world on standalone podcasts and YouTube channels. Questions and dialogue are possible with Substack, along with Live events that enlist readers’ and viewers’ interest and potential loyalty—but also encourage their questions.

Fundamentally, of course, Substack writers engage not through algorithms but through making arguments and marshalling evidence for their claims, and readers engage with those arguments and the evidence proposed through reading a moderate length or even longform piece. This is the primary “affordance” available that may support better public conversations, which align with the overriding purposes of epistemic institutions such as libraries.

The developers of Substack have also expanded its interactivity and the community-building features in recent years with the Notes feature, allowing readers to pull and amplify quotes and amplify from specific articles; the Chat feature which allows direct interactions between writers and readers; and the Leaderboard feature allowing writers to discover potential collaborators, and readers to discover new voices on the platform, according to broad topical categories such as Business, Politics, Education, and Sports. Most often, the Comments section for individual articles is the most visible and used feature, as it encourages asynchronous conversations in response to a writer’s claims, among writers and readers, or between readers themselves. This suite of “affordances” very much adds to the free-speech and democratic discourse inherent in the Substack ethos.

Substack is one part of a rapidly changing media and communication ecosystem, democratizing discourse and offering many avenues for publishing among aspiring free-lance writers, journalists, as well as established academics looking for connections with a wider public. For this reason, Substack is one option for revitalizing the public discourse that Russell Jacoby identified as declining several decades ago in his well-known 1989 book, The Last Intellectuals, which described a retreat of public intellectuals into the “ivory tower” of the academy and into obscurantism of much academic discourse.

Of course, Substack is not an editorially controlled platform, and there is no peer review as in the academic publishing world. The quality of individual Substack newsletters therefore varies enormously. Many well-known academics, public intellectuals, and independent journalists have migrated to Substack from blog platforms such as WordPress because of the many affordances of Substack and its individual subscriber model and payment system. But the platform allows any individual writer, artist, “creative”, or group to start a Substack and find their way forward, learning about self-publishing with the tools available.

Much current concern looms about the impact of social media platforms and their taking over the role of traditional media as news sources and information providers. A specific concern is with “audience capture,” a real psychological phenomenon between “influencers” and their audiences, in which new bespoke realities are co-created that depart from empiricism and well-evidenced claims, and in which algorithms themselves may amplify distorted realities.

Toward Better Influencing

A very recent example of how Substack allows at least some opportunity to correct the distortions and falsehoods found on other platforms occurred in light of the Trump administration’s decision (and Elon Musk’s actions) regarding the USAID agency and its programs and expenditures in other countries, which became an early target for abolition as part of the assault on the “deep state.” Popular YouTuber Shoeonhead produced a video about USAID rife with many distortions about the agency and its mission and programs, which an undergraduate philosophy major using the name Bentham’s Newsletter, critiqued in a very data-informed way. The Shoeonhead rapid-fire narration is typical of a YouTuber’s affordances: glitz with graphics, short-form interspersed video clips, and attempts to form a parasocial relationship with the viewer through captivating personal appeals and a tone of “we’re in the know together” here.

The Bentham’s Newsletter writer corrects many of the falsehoods and incomplete information about USAID in a followup article summarizing the case against the YouTuber’s “influencing” in the worst way by misinforming viewers, and then, most aptly of all, identifies the core problem with “alternative media”:

Alternative media is fundamentally in the entertainment business, not the truth seeking business. They misinform because they have no incentive not to. As the recent debacle showed, even when they’re called out for saying things that are false, their fans will mostly defend them. So long as one is witty and entertaining, the fact that most of the facts they listed are false or misleading is of little consequence.

In contrast with other social media platforms such as many YouTube channels (of which the Shoeonhead example is especially egregious), or standalone podcasting platforms, where audience capture often occurs, Substack publishing may offer a comparative advantage for a general well-educated audience that decades ago may have read more journals of opinion, or magazines with intellectual ambitions for either niche or wider audiences—the types of periodicals that many librarians responsible for selection decisions would be familiar with by using the classic reference tool Magazines for Libraries.

Substack writing fills an increasing niche in the media and publishing ecosystem previously occupied by literary and cultural journals and political journals of opinion that have much more niche audiences. Many of these journals continue, of course, from The American Scholar to The Hedgehog Review to Dissent, to The New Atlantis. These periodicals form a generative space of longform commentary and inquiry for small audiences in academia or generally well-educated public.

New entrants to this field include the excellent Liberties, with well-known academics, literary authors, and public intellectuals contributing; along with the more established, but still experimental The Point: A Magazine of the Examined Life, which offers a combination of articles, podcasts, events, short form “takes” or dialogues on contemporary culture, and both print and digital versions. Another new publication, The Metropolitan Review, is a books and arts online journal published on Substack itself, with intentions of also publishing a print version. Against this backdrop of ongoing traditional formats and experimental forms of writing, Substack writers are finding their way forward, with the assistance of the parent company, collaborators and readers, and their own ingenuity and overriding commitment to free expression and ongoing inquiry.

Recent Developments

As of March 2025, Substack metrics showed 5 million paid subscribers, a milestone that does not include the many readers who browse and read unpaywalled posts or who subscribe for “free” occasional articles from well-known writers.

Another notable recent development is a partnership between FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), the primary free expression association, and Substack, in order to strengthen the support for “fearless writing” by foreigners and international students who write while residing in the United States—a collective marshalling of energy for free speech rights that all citizens should understand and support.

A Guide for Promoting Substacks

With the enormous growth in the Substack platform, librarians and those in related fields may want to consider the unique affordances of the platform for their own purposes, including the following:

• News and announcements: the “push” subscription service allows subscribers to receive updates in their email regarding library and community events, books reviews, updates about services, exhibitions and special programs, and similar uses. A brief article in School Library Journal identifies opportunities in for outreach using Substack, and there is no reason why both public and academic libraries cannot adopt a “push” model for their clientele with an opt-in opportunity for subscribers rather than static websites or digital or printed newsletters.

• Community-building: the capacity of the Substack platform for interaction, conversation, and dialogue, through Substack Live events, podcasts, chats, and Notes, offers another opportunity for building trust and increasing intellectual interests in a given community. Libraries of all types can design these interactive features after surveying users and doing their own forms of community analysis to understand the interests of their students, faculty, and community member. A library-sponsored Live event could feature a guest speaker or a panel; a reading by an author; or offer a series of thematic podcasts that span a period of months; or offer a defined period for a book club discussion. More opportunities will present themselves for discussion and debate as Substack amplifies its reach.

• Intellectual forums and salons: libraries can organize major events across states, provinces, and different library types that are another level beyond community building, but to hold major discussions touching intellectual and academic freedom, civil liberties, misinformation/disinformation, the shifting media ecosystem, and related topics that frame, or relate to, the library mission. These forums can transcend the familiar Zoom webinars and webcasts by deploying Substack’s affordances for reaching wider audiences through Recommendations and subscriber promotions; by offering curated readings on the Substack itself in advance of an event; by offering a series of brief recordings addressing specific aspects of an overall theme; and by presenting self-directed “readers’ advisories” through a roadmap of readings, recordings of either audio or video.

This aspirational use of Substack by a consortia or large group of libraries could approximate the Chautauqua Institution’s CHQ “digital assembly”, which includes digital programming of features speakers, artists, and educators, via livestream. A comparable offering of events featuring speakers and performances is offered each year by AtlanticLive!, giving both in-person and virtual attendees opportunities hear keynote speakers and to ask questions in thematically clustered sessions across a period of days.

A Guide for Reading, Recommending, or Reviewing Substacks

Although reference and public service librarians may not currently be engaged in answering questions or doing a form of “reader’s advisory” regarding Substack as publishing platform, and would offer only general guidance about specific Substacks and how to identify them from the platform itself, some suggestions offered here may point toward a more informed user population about the opportunities and limitations of Substack writing and specific writers.

• “Beware the Man of One Study”: Cognitive scientist and rationalist philosopher Scott Alexander famously wrote (adapting Aquinas), to “beware of the man of one study”—someone who uses only one source, one book, one expert, one set of data, without considering its gaps, biases, or blind spots. In the same fashion, reading across the Substack ecosystem, filling in gaps with peer-reviewed literature, with digests of research and compilations of it at The Conversation, matters hugely in developed a deeper and longer view of a complex topic such as climate change, or a fraught one such as misinformation, propaganda, and political polarization. Substack writing may be compelling, graphics and embedded videos may create new understandings, but breadth and depth in searching and reading are essential, as always.

• Consider the genre of the article. Substack writers vary enormously in their approaches, methods, writing styles, and voices—as essayists and opinion writers have always varied widely. What kind of articles does the writer typically offer? Philosophical essays? Perspective pieces on current news and cultural events? Explainers of new concepts in artificial intelligence for the general reader? Data summaries and explanations?

• Related to genre, consider the intellectual perspectives in “news” reporting and commentary. Economist Noah Smith has usefully pointed out that much mainstream press reporting divides “news” and “opinion” into crude categories, while more curious and persistent readers need a third category: analysis. Smith suggests that analysis can include: forecasts (facts and evidence suggesting an outcome in a political race); assessments (the potential outcome of the Ukraine War, given the wide range of variables involved); and theories (a conceptual framing, drawing on evidence, to make a case for understanding a current reality such as the chaos caused by Trump’s plans for remaking the global trading system). How well does the writer deploy these three genres in a given article, or show talent for using combinations of them over time?

• Use the Recommendations wisely. Complementary to the preceding point is the act of reviewing a Substack writer’s own recommendations and the range of viewpoints possible through other “lenses.” What do those recommendations say about the writer? Are the recommended Substacks within the same school of thought? Can you detect if the writer is expanding or contracting your range of perspectives in the recommendations?

• Consider the use of data and graphics and their veracity. As with peer-reviewed research, are data presented accurately, and in readily understood tables, graphs and charts? Is the author taking liberties and using these data selectively? Which primary data sources are used, and what methods were used in collecting them? Are data presented professionally as well? Examples of professionally presented data can be found in these Substacks (available in the Appendix below): The Missing Data Depot; Graphs about Religion; and Rozado’s Visual Analytics.

• Read the Comments to gauge where topics are trending. Many Substack writers, though not all, invite subscribers (or only paid subscribers) to post comments and engage in an online conversation with themselves and other readers. The Comments point out emerging topics of interest and constitute an informal sentiment analysis for readers—they show what an audience is interested in and what new issues they might want the writer to address. Comments hardly establish what is true or accurate in a controversy or large public debate, but they may pinpoint new ideas or not well-understood perspectives.

• Use the Notes feature to review and assess articles. Substack’s Notes feature, in combination with the Substack app, provide readers with a cross-section of daily comments from journalists, independent writers, academics, and media figures—a quick survey to gauge quality or depth from some experts as a first-pass in evaluating quality of a post and whether to read the entire article (if it is unpaywalled), or to subscribe and then read or listen to a new voice.

• Delve into the links from articles. Many Substack writers will link to Open Access sources or unpaywalled Substack articles, so following up on those to explore more deeply and also to check on the depth of the writer’s own investigations also serves to guide quality selection in reading, reviewing, and recommending Substacks to colleagues, friends, and potentially, those served in libraries.

• Control the proliferation in your email inboxes. Always an issue for busy professionals or anyone who is an avid reader—managing the “incoming.” Because Substack uses the individual subscriber email as the entrée to making its writers visible, readers have to make careful choices and monitor their subscriptions and messages that are spinoffs from them, since writers may send multiple messages a week, for podcasts, articles, events, or updates. A balance between expansive reading and viewing, and periodic winnowing of interests in individual Substacks, is necessary and part of one one’s personal information management.

Conclusion

We in the Heterodox Librarians group invite you to read articles posted here since our newsletter started in 2022, listen to podcasts posted here, use the Recommended Substacks included on the landing page, and explore others across a wide range of disciplines, schools of thought, outlooks, and perspectives, in promoting open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement. We also invite guest posts to encourage these same core principles of the Heterodoxy Academy. Substack writing, reading, viewing, listening, reviewing, and discussing are part of collective learning to which we all aspire.

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Appendix

These examples of new and more established Substacks run the gamut in disciplines, perspectives, politics, styles, and media (text, podcasts, video, audio). They are offered as a current representative sample of the writers currently on Substack.

Singal-Minded, Jesse Singal. Science, pseudoscience, youth gender medicine.

(50) Singal-Minded | Jesse Singal | Substack

The Garden of Forking Paths. Brian Klaas. Political science, history, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, power/despotism, cults.

(100) The Garden of Forking Paths | Brian Klaas | Substack

Noahpinion. Noah Smith. Economics, global politics, technology, culture.

(100) Noahpinion | Noah Smith | Substack

One Useful Thing. Ethan Mollick. Mostly about artificial intelligence.

(50) One Useful Thing | Ethan Mollick | Substack

Optimally Irrational. Lionel Page. Evolutionary psychology, human behavior, economics, interdisciplinary social sciences.

Optimally Irrational | Lionel Page | Substack

Speak Now, Regret Later. Michael Inzlicht. Social psychology from a “heterodox” perspective. Debunking of under-evidenced ideas, sharing of raw data.

(15) Speak Now Regret Later | Michael Inzlicht | Substack

Conspicuous Cognition. Dan Williams. Philosophy, cognitive science, politics, propaganda, misinformation.

(100) Conspicuous Cognition | Dan Williams | Substack

Notes from the Circus. Mike Brock. A philosopher’s blog in defense of epistemic liberalism and against current populist authoritarianism.

Notes From The Circus | Mike Brock | Substack

Slow Boring. Matthew Yglesias. Politics, policy, economics, from a center-left vantage point. Offers interactivity through responses to subscribers’ “letters.”

(4) Slow Boring | Matthew Yglesias | Substack

Understanding America. Oren Cass. Politics, economics, and policy from the New Right or National Conservative vantage point.

(3) Understanding America | Oren Cass | Substack

The Radical Moderate’s Guide to Life. Lauren Hall. Politics and philosophy from a centrist-trending libertarian perspective.

(3) The Radical Moderate's Guide to Life | Lauren Hall | Substack

Jeff Giesea. Politics, technology, and entrepreneurship.

(3) Jeff Giesea | Substack

Non-Content. Julian Sanchez. Libertarian-leading perspectives on politics and culture

(3) Non-Content | Julian Sanchez | Substackre

The Permanent Problem. Brink Lindsay. Center-right perspectives on history, politics, economics, and culture. The author is collecting posts on the Substack into a forthcoming book, The Permanent Problem.

The Permanent Problem | Brink Lindsey | Substack

The Upheaval. N.S. Lyons. A voice of the new right and National Conservatives. Awarded Substack’s Featured Publication Award in 2023.

(4) The Upheaval | N.S. Lyons | Substack

PastPresentFuture. Dan Gardner. History, politics, decision-making, predictions, risk management.

(3) PastPresentFuture | Dan Gardner | Substack

The Tracinski Letter. Robert Tracinski. Politics and culture from a center-left, sometimes classical liberal vantage point. Tracinski also publishes the online journal Symposium, also on Substack, featuring an online community supporting classical liberalism, with articles, podcasts, and online gatherings.

The Tracinski Letter | Robert Tracinski | Substack

Agents of Influence. Renee DiResta. Social media research, technology, digital life.

(3) Agents of Influence | Renee DiResta | Substack

New Cartographies. Nicholas Carr. The intersections of technology and culture by the author of The Shallows and Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection are Tearing Us Apart.

(10) New Cartographies | Nicholas Carr | Substack

Astral Codex Ten. Scott Alexander. Cognitive science, philosophy, probability theory, rationalist perspectives. Alexander’s previous blog was Slate Star Codex and posts there are archived at: Slate Star Codex on the Internet Archive.

(10) Astral Codex Ten | Scott Alexander | Substack

Civic Attention. Hugh Jones and Hannah Koizumi. Addresses the exploitation of our attention by social media design features and algorithms, and points toward pathways for reclaiming attention. Written from a Gen Z perspective.

(4) Civic Attention | Substack

The Overflowings of a Liberal Brain. Helen Pluckrose. Articulate voice for classic liberalism against authoritarianisms and illiberalism of various pedigrees.

(4) The Overflowings of a Liberal Brain | Helen Pluckrose | Substack

Experimental History. Adam Mastroianni. Experimental psychology “in the wild.”

(4) Experimental History | Adam Mastroianni | Substack

The Good Science Project. Stuart Buck. Newsletter of think tank addressing improving scientific research, science funding, reproducibility/replication, and the politics of science.

(4) The Good Science Project | Stuart Buck | Substack

Heterodox STEM. Dorian Abbot. The free speech and “heterodox” views of science, scientific research, intellectual and academic freedom issues in science, especially on contested topics.

(4) Heterodox STEM | Dorian Abbot | Substack

Ruxandra’s Substack. Ruxandra Teslo. The author is a Ph.D. student in Genomics, and writes about culture and technology in a highly interdisciplinary way.

(19) Ruxandra's Substack | Ruxandra Teslo | Substack

After Babel. Jon Haidt. Moral psychology applied to societal challenges in technology use, especially social media, smartphones, and educational technology.

(4) After Babel | Jon Haidt | Substack

Of Boys and Men. Richard Reeves. President of the American Institute for Boys and Men. Article on developing positive role models for men and boys in contemporary society.

(19) Of Boys and Men | Richard V Reeves | Substack

The Power of Us. Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel. Psychology applied to group dynamics, tribal loyalties; social media influences on groups and culture; organizational psychology and self-reflection. One of the most fully-featured Substacks, offering research summaries, podcasts, educational materials and syllabi, book clubs, book giveaways, and interactive quizzes.

(14) The Power of Us | Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel | Substack

Guerilla Scholarship. Jim Coan. Neuroscientist who studies the social regulation of emotion and cognition and its benefits to human functioning. Inventor of Social Baseline Theory.

Guerrilla Scholarship | Jim Coan | Substack

Works In Progress. Traces Notes, Books, and Links in Progress. Independent writing.

The Works in Progress Newsletter | Substack

The Missing Data Depot. Kevin Wallsten. Data collection and analysis of American politics and culture, focused on absent data from research, surveys, various studies.

The Missing Data Depot | K e v i n W a l s t e n | Substack

Graphs About Religion. Ryan Burge. Data visualizations and charts about numerous aspects of religion: religious attendance, demographics, surveys on beliefs.

(4) Graphs about Religion | Ryan Burge | Substack

Rozado’s Visual Analytics. David Rozado. Discussions of unexplored or under-explored research topics; data visualizations.

(4) Rozado’s Visual Analytics | David Rozado | Substack

Void if Removed. Covers technology, philosophy, misinformation/disinformation, pseudoscience.

(100) Void if removed | Substack

Thinking in Bets. Anne Duke. The art and science of decision-making.

(4) Thinking in Bets | Annie Duke | Substack

Unsafe Science. Lee Jussim. “Heterodox” views on scientific and social scientific research, particularly in behavioral sciences; intellectual and academic freedom; censorship.

(4) Unsafe Science | Lee Jussim | Substack

The Honest Broker. Ted Gioia. Music, books, arts, general cultural discussions and reflections.

(4) The Honest Broker | Ted Gioia | Substack

The Intrinsic Perspective. Erik Hoel. Hoel is a neuroscientist who migrated to Substack early from academia, and now writes on consilience, a wide-ranging conception of human knowledge connecting science, technology, history, arts, and culture. The Intrinsic Perspective has received Substack’s Featured Publication Badge every year since 2021.

(4) The Intrinsic Perspective | Erik Hoel | Substack

Persuasion. Yascha Mounk. Politics, policy, culture, examined from a wide range of perspectives generally in the liberal tradition.

(100) Persuasion | Yascha Mounk | Substack

Popular Information. Judd Legum. Accountability journalism from a progressive perspective. Won the 2020 Online Journalism Award for Excellence in Newsletters.

Popular Information | Judd Legum | Substack

The Arts of Association. Daniel Stid. Philanthropy and civil society initiatives and support for democracy.

(4) The Art of Association | Daniel Stid | Substack