Reader's Adversary #4
Assorted Links: Newsletters
Craig Gibson
Professor and Professional Development Coordinator
The Ohio State University Libraries
Since we’ve started our own “Heterodoxy in the Stacks” newsletter, I’ve been reviewing other Substack newsletters that I’ve bookmarked, subscribed to, or am still sampling. Substack is clearly the emerging publishing platform that allows established scholars and writers to share their work with the world outside what we now refer to as “legacy media” and peer-reviewed journals, and some of the conformity they enforce. Bari Weiss and Andrew Sulliivan are the most obvious examples of journalists who’ve left traditional or legacy publications because of their own heterodox or nonconforming views, but others are finding huge intellectual freedom here. Substack is now the platform of choice for emerging journalists and other writers, and I see more examples tweeted out or otherwise publicized all the time.
I’m offering the following as some noteworthy newsletters that generally promote viewpoint diversity and freedom from academic or other orthodoxies. Your mileage may vary with each of them. Most of these are free (there are a few exceptions, but many provide for a free option for the basic set of posts).
Happy reading!
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Heterodox STEM (Dorian Abbot)
Unsafe Science (Lee Jussim)
Bookmarked Reads (Nicole Barbaro)
FAIR (Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism)
Common Sense (Bari Weiss, numerous guest columnists)
Symposium (Robert Tracinski)
Chloe Valdary’s Newsletter
Habits of a Free Mind (Pamela Paresky)
Lean Out (Tara Henley)
Hold That Thought (Sarah Haider)
Rob Henderson’s Newsletter
The Truth Fairy (Abigail Shrier)
Natural Selections (Heather Heying)
Liberal Confessions (Carol Horton)
Year Zero (Wesley Yang)
The Liberal Patriot (Halpin, Teixeira, et. al.)
Unorthodox (Seerut Chawla)
Critical Mass (Lawrence Krauss)
Singal-Minded (Jesse Singal)