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Recommended by Brad DeLong

Dan Davies - "Back of Mind"

By Dan Davies' "Back of Mind" newsletter

A newsletter of quiet contrarianism, slow analysis and ambient ideas

Off Message

By Brian

Because vigorous internal debate isn't a weakness—it's essential.

Drezner’s World

By Daniel W. Drezner

A bunch of unedited stuff about international relations, American politics, political economy, the marketplace of ideas, and popular culture written by this Drezner guy

The Deleted Scenes

By Addison Del Mastro

Urbanism, culture, idiosyncrasy

Very Serious

By Josh Barro

Josh Barro's newsletter about politics, the economy and culture.

Richard Baldwin Substack

Globalisation, Trade, Future of World Economy

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

Derek Thompson

A newsletter about abundance and building a better world.

Silver Bulletin

By Nate Silver

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

Unpopular Front

By John Ganz

the junk shop of history

Persuasion

By Yascha Mounk

The community for those who believe that a free society is worth fighting for.

On Humans

By Ilari Mäkelä

On Humans explores the story of humanity, from the evolution of apes to the making of the modern economy.

Writing from London

By Nick Cohen

Politics and culture from the UK and beyond by Nick Cohen

Lucian Truscott Newsletter

By Lucian K. Truscott IV

I've covered everything from three wars, a few presidential campaigns, the Stonewall riots and the Rolling Stones. This column reflects that history and is about politics, culture, personal stories, and the nation's descent into anti-democratic madness.

Tang Poetry

By Phil H

Translations of Chinese poetry from the Tang Dynasty

ChinaTalk

By Jordan Schneider

Deep coverage of technology, China, US policy, and war. We feature original analysis alongside interviews with leading thinkers and policymakers.

Marcus on AI

By Gary Marcus

"Marcus has become one of our few indispensable public intellectuals. The more people read him, the better our actions in shaping Al will be." - Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Ministry for the Future

The Indispensable Newsletter by Gautam Mukunda

A trusted, accessible guide to the ideas shaping leadership, business, and innovation—connecting current events, history, and culture to reveal not just what’s happening, but why it matters to your decisions, your organization, and the future of work.

Understanding AI

By Timothy B. Lee

Exploring how AI works and how it's changing our world.

DEEPER LOOK with Michael Sellers

Former CIA officer, Russia specialist currently an investigator, taking a deeper look at things that matter.

My personal Substack

Exclusive reporting on the AI race.

Above Average: Minnesota's Economy, Past and Present

By Louis Johnston

Pondering the evolution of Minnesota's economy

Motorhead

Fundamental analysis of Tesla, its major automotive rivals, and the electric vehicle supply chain.

Dani’s Reading Notes

By Dani Sandler

Posting my reading notes worksheets, in case they are useful to anyone

The Great Gender Divergence

By Alice Evans

Why has the world become more gender equal? Why are some societies more gender equal than others?

Thinking about...

By Timothy Snyder

Opening the future by understanding the past.

Programmable Mutter

By Henry Farrell

Technology and politics in an interdependent world

One First

By Steve Vladeck

A weekly newsletter aiming to make the Supreme Court’s rulings, procedures, and history more accessible to all

Inflection Point

The U.C. Berkeley Political Economy Podcast :: Hosted by Dylan J. Riley & J. Bradford DeLong

The Intellectual Investor

By Vitaliy Katsenelson

Value Investing, Life/Philosophy and Classical Music Explained

Yasheng Huang

Eight by Seven

By Timothy Burke

Organized distractedness: regular doses of history, politics, cooking, academia and geek culture.

Agents of Influence

By Renee DiResta

A field guide to the people and systems turning online belief into real-world power.

Latent.Space

The AI Engineer newsletter + Top technical AI podcast. How leading labs build Agents, Models, Infra, & AI for Science. See https://latent.space/about for highlights from Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz, Simon Willison, Soumith Chintala et al!

The Overshoot

By Matt Klein

Making sense of the global economy and financial markets

Mike Konczal

Data-driven, theory-informed analysis of economics and public policy.

Paul Krugman

Notes on economics and more

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

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

Sean Illing

Dad, Veteran, Author, “The Paradox of Democracy,” Host of The Gray Area. 👉 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gray-area-with-sean-illing/id1081584611

Sean Illing is presenting his dissertation's vision of Camus trying to figure out how to deal with the world as painted by Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche. Very interesting. Very much worth reading...

- Brad DeLong

Overthinking Everything

By David R. MacIver

Miscellaneous thoughts as I figure out life

How the World Became Rich

By Mark Koyama

Economic History

Unevenly Combined Thoughts

By Angus Bylsma

Semi-coherent musings on economic history.