Substacks recommended by Maarten Boudry’s Substack

Recommended by Maarten Boudry’s Substack

The newsletter of Professor Steve Stewart-Williams. Evolutionary psychology, sex differences, nature and nurture, science, philosophy, and more.

Doomslayer

By Human Progress

The newsletter brought to you by Human Progress.

The Elysian

By Elle Griffin

Exploring a utopian future through essay collections & print pamphlets. Join us to reimagine the world for our benefit.

The Elysian is one of the most upbeat, beautiful and inspiring places on the internet. My favorite antidote against reading the news every morning (which is invariably depressing)!

- Maarten Boudry’s Substack

Virginia's Newsletter

By Virginia Postrel

Commerce, culture, and curiosity; progress & abundance

Persuasion

By Yascha Mounk

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

Walter Veit

Philosophy and more

Whenever I despair of academic philosophy (which is very often), people like Walter give me hope. ;-)

- Maarten Boudry’s Substack

Hyperdimensional

By Dean W. Ball

A newsletter about emerging technology and the future of governance.

From Poverty to Progress

By Michael Magoon of “From Poverty to Progress”

Promoting an awareness and understanding of human material progress. How we got it, and how we can keep it going.

Consistently informatve, upbeat and constructive! We need more "progressives" like Michael (i.e. people who *actually* believe in progress)

- Maarten Boudry’s Substack

The Argument

By Lakshya Jain

Join Us. We're Libbing Out.

Ryan McKay

Psychologist at Royal Holloway, University of London

Sarah Haider

More light, less heat.

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

Noah Smith is in a league of his own in the blogosphere. Who else manages to produce such a steady stream of well-crafted, extremely informative & lively posts?

- Maarten Boudry’s Substack

TEN YEARS OF IDEAS

My personal Substack

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

Risk & Progress

By J.K. Lundblad

Exploring risk, human progress, and your potential.

Excellent blog on human progress and why it's (still) vulnerable!

- Maarten Boudry’s Substack

The Tracinski Letter

By Robert Tracinski

News and Analysis from an Individualist Perspective

Optimally Irrational

By Lionel Page

Deciphering why people and society work the way they do

Conspicuous Cognition

By Dan Williams

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

Bet On It

By Bryan Caplan

Caplan and Candor

Uncharted Territories

By Tomas Pueyo

Understand the world of today to prepare for the world of tomorrow: AI, tech, longevity, fertility, the future of democracy, energy, education, and more

Ruxandra's Substack

By Ruxandra Teslo

Pro-progress, anti-safetyist commentary on Scientific & Cultural matters from a Genomics PhD. Attempting to shape culture towards optimism, an abundance mindset & freedom.

Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Foreign policy, American politics, and social science

Sam Harris

Sam Harris is the author of five NYT bestsellers, host of the Making Sense podcast, and creator of the Waking Up app.

Experimental History

By Adam Mastroianni

1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.

Ella Kenan

The Works in Progress Newsletter

By Works in Progress

New and underrated ideas to improve the world. Visit our website: worksinprogress.co

The Ecomodernist

By Breakthrough Institute

Building a new environmental paradigm through analyses and essays on politics, nuclear energy, agriculture, critical minerals, permitting reform, and much more. The Ecomodernist is a publication of the Breakthrough Institute.

Stewart Brand

Writer. WHOLE EARTH CATALOG through MAINTENANCE: OF EVERYTHING (in progress).

Hopeful Monsters

By Étienne

Culture, technology, and other macromutations

The Roots of Progress

By Jason Crawford

The history of technology and the philosophy of progress, plus announcements from the Roots of Progress Institute

Figs in Winter: a Community of Reason

By Massimo Pigliucci

By Massimo Pigliucci, a scientist, philosopher, and Professor at the City College of New York. Understanding how the world works, thinking more clearly, living more meaningfully.

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

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

Yascha Mounk

Big ideas that help you think for yourself.

The Liberal Patriot

By John Halpin

Political and policy analysis from the vital center.

Exformation

By Will Rinehart

Tech policy from an outsider, inside the beltway.

The Overflowings of a Liberal Brain

By Helen Pluckrose

The Overflowings of a Liberal Brain is a community-driven publication that addresses political & cultural issues and offers a liberal perspective on how to understand them and respond to them.

Helen wrote some of the most insightful books and articles on the rise of postmodernism and other fashionable nonsense undermining Western civilization. I'm very happy to have discovered her on Substack!

- Maarten Boudry’s Substack

The Honest Broker

By Roger Pielke Jr.

Making sense of science, policy and politics

All Predictions Wrong

By Gregg Easterbrook

All Predictions Wrong offers eclectic commentary on science, sports, politics, economics, faith, movie plot holes, cars and my hometown of Buffalo New York. During the NFL season, Tuesday Morning Quarterback is included.

The Weekly Anthropocene

By Sam Matey-Coste

Dispatches Against Despair, from the Wild, Weird World of Humanity and its Biosphere.

Benny Morris's Corner

History and Current Affairs in the Middle East

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

The Poetry of Reality Page is hosted by world renowned evolutionary biologist and best-selling author, Professor Richard Dawkins, celebrated by intellectuals and scientists everywhere for his honest critique of religion and his push for critical thinking.

The Prism

By Gurwinder

A guide to navigating the digital age

Liveware

By Alex Telford

I write about the science and business of living things: the biotech industry, drug discovery, biology, medicine, consciousness, intelligence (artificial and natural), and natural philosophy. Mostly I write about the biotech industry.

Best Behavior

By Diana Fleischman

An evolutionary psychologist on the art and science of shaping behavior.

Skillful Notes

By Benjamin Parry

Essays about how people, organizations, countries, and civilizations become competent.

Maximum Progress

By Maxwell Tabarrok

Maximum Progress is a blog by Max Tabarrok on economics, science, philosophy, and progress.

Claire’s Substack

By Claire Lehmann

My personal Substack

I admire Claire's intelligence and her unwavering and consistent defense of liberalism. Launched amid the Great Awokening, her magazine Quillette was prescient and clear-eyed about the spread of a stifling new ideology across campuses and other progressive spaces. But as lot has changed since then. As the Right escalated its attacks on liberal norms, free speech, and universities, Quillette has taken them to task too. Claire has never wavered in her defense of classical liberal values.

- Maarten Boudry’s Substack

Fin’s Newsletter

By Fin Moorhouse

Laura London's Blog

investigating how the atomic bomb reshaped attitudes toward technological progress, nature, and civilization—through the lenses of history, philosophy, and art | fellow @ roots of progress