Eight by Seven

Michael Rushton on cultural policy past and present

I write about the Great Books, classic literature, and the contemporary publishing world. I am also not a transphobe.

My personal Substack

Juxtaposed images drawn from decades of work and play.

African political economy, foreign affairs, and general commentary.

Rebecca Makkai's Substack: mostly writing and books! but also Zillow, true crime, etymology, food, general inanity

Dispatches on wildlife, wild places and the human condition.

Adventures in the unseen world of photography.

These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here

Inside the Delaware Court of Chancery, by Chance.

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

What makes AI click, what makes it fail, and how to tell the difference

South Africa's economic past, present and future

Fatphobia, misogyny, and more

Everything MENA Political Science and Politics

Exploring history to understand today and shape a better tomorrow.

Notes on life after academe with exclusive interviews, essays, and craft resources.

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

Conversations on African photography.

Philosophy, economics, and random thoughts

Dispatches and photos from walks around the world

improving the quality of government, public policy, reducing administrative burdens

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shares thoughts about sports, politics, and popular culture and how they define America.

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

Higher ed, pop culture, politics, and random shiny things

Explaining the weird new future, one newsletter at a time. Subscribe for a twice weekly delivery of internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come.

Weird, wild, and dirtbaggy stories from history, handcrafted and delivered biweekly.

A newsletter that mixes insights from the history of the digital future (#WIREDarchive) with observations and rants about the state of politics today. Basically a blog for your inbox.

Making data fun again

Cranky commentary, reviews and inquiries from the queer left

Data on the biggest social issues of our time - covering healthcare, housing, education, econ, tech, and more. I'll write you a haiku if you don't learn something new.

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.

the junk shop of history

Newsletter on the strange and quirky histories of popular culture.

A newsletter about law, liberty, and leisure.

Hic sunt dracones, among other things

Weekly essays on reading the world and reading in the world, plus personalized book recommendations based on the last five books you've read.

Economic history, economics, political economy, finance, & forecasting. Here to try to make you (and me) smarter in a world with many increasingly deep & complicated troubles...

Climate change, urbanization, industrial change and democracy. Thinking globally, comparatively. Updates on new publications and other reflections.

Southern California lore and historic preservation

News you can use about politics, culture, media, and higher education.

A curated newsletter for photography people

The Words of Ed Zitron, a PR person and writer.

A personal view of international relations and political science: research, teaching, and current events

All of Ohio's depravity. All the time.