Substacks recommended by Oppenheimer

Recommended by Oppenheimer

Coming home to our bodies, our communities, and the earth. Spiritual and cultural resistance. Drawing from Jewish and other sacred traditions, as well as my direct experience.

Ana is an ex-minister, becoming a rabbi, with a powerful message. I really dig her work.

- Oppenheimer

Bart Campolo

Bart Campolo is a counselor and podcaster currently based in Cincinnati.

Committed by Mijal Bitton

By Mijal Bitton

Weekly spiritual wisdom to deepen our commitment to Judaism and the Jewish People.

The Foglight by Dr. Gerda Maissel

The Foglight provides tips, stories, and commentary on American healthcare. Written by a physician and private patient advocate, you will find useful and compelling stories that will help you in your own healthcare journey.

Derisivist

By William Deresiewicz

Noncreative nonfiction, impersonal essays, armchair journalism.

There aren't many better essayists than Bill Deresiewicz. Need I say more?

- Oppenheimer

The Editors

By Ira Stoll

trustworthy information and analysis to defend and expand freedom and prosperity. Edited by Ira Stoll.

A Fan's Notes, by Nick Hornby

Music, books, movies, work, football, TV and so on.

Accept All Changes

By Michael Agger

Notes on editing and writing.

Both/And with Jay Michaelson

Politics and the Human Mind. Law and Spirituality. The News and How to Survive It. By a journalist/lawyer/rabbi/meditation teacher/professor.

I don't know what the both/and necessarily is, but how about that he is both rigorous and mystical, both smart and humble, both Jewish and (it seems) everything else? Kind of a mind-blowing read.

- Oppenheimer

Fritinancy

By Nancy Friedman

Names, brands, writing, and the language of commerce, plus occasional tangents.

I think there are two kinds of people, word-nerds and word-nerds-to-be. The first group needs Fritinancy NOW, and the second group needs her even more.

- Oppenheimer

The Ivy Exile

Redemption of a recovering flack. Ex-Brown/PBS/Columbia. Somewhere between Manhattan and America.

Coleman’s Corner

By Coleman Hughes

Searching for truth in an uncertain world

After Babel

By Jon Haidt

A free weekly newsletter where Jon Haidt and his team make sense of how technology is reshaping society — and share insights on how we can build something better.

Silver Bulletin

By Nate Silver

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

Mike Pesca

The home of The Gist List and exclusive commentary from Mike Pesca delivered to your inbox every single day.

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

Notes from the Middleground

By Damon Linker

Analysis and criticism of the antiliberal right, social-justice progressivism, and cultural topics

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

By Joyce Vance

Worried about the state of the republic? Get the legal knowledge & analysis you need to be an advocate for democracy, along with a dose of savvy optimism.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s Newsletter

Politics, culture, humor, women, feminism, Jews, Israel-Palestine & more

Slack Tide by Matt Labash

By Matt Labash

Taking life as it comes, not necessarily in that order

Read Max

By Max Read

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.

I Might Be Wrong

By Jeff Maurer

Comedy, politics, and swearing in pretty much equal amounts.

The Free Press

By Bari Weiss

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

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

Eminent Americans

By Daniel Oppenheimer

A newsletter and podcast about the writers and public intellectuals who either are key players in the American intellectual scene or who typify an important aspect of it.

The Weekly Dish

By Andrew Sullivan

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle," - Orwell

Political Currents by Ross Barkan

This is Ross Barkan's newsletter - original essays on politics, society, and culture

MARQUEE: The Broadway Maven's Weekly Blast

By David Benkof

Think more deeply about musical theater

I am a longtime Broadway fan (although my attendance has taken a hit since having children). So in some ways this is the newsletter I have been looking for: news, essays, opinion, even the hookup for classes to expand your theater knowledge. Beautifully run and curated, always smart. Makes me realize how much I have missed live theater.

- Oppenheimer

The Will Leitch Newsletter

By Will Leitch

Will Leitch's weekly free newsletter with an original essay, and links to everything he writes.

Dan’s Voice of Reason

By Dan Friedman

In a world of turmoil, one man's staying calm.

One of the two newsletters I am recommending on Palestine/Israel right now (not that it's all about that, but it's good on that topic).

- Oppenheimer

Singal-Minded

By Jesse Singal

A newsletter about science, social-justice-activism, why they sometimes fight, and how to help them get along better -- plus a good deal of other, more random stuff.