Substacks recommended by Kerry Tremain

Recommended by Kerry Tremain

I'm a writer and editor based in California and Connecticut. I've been trying to write short stories since I was a teenager, and learned more Saunders' A Swim in the Pond in the Rain than I ever learned in school (rock lyric, sorry)

The New Curiosity Shop

By Quentin Hardy

Writing about Tech, Art, and the search for meaning.

Yascha Mounk

Essays and conversations about big ideas that don't need a news hook.

Atelier du Jour

By Lucie Duclos

Welcome to my newsletter! I share learning opportunities, inspiration, tutorials and mixed media techniques to help you cultivate a healthy art practice!

PHOTOSNACK

By Tomasz Trzebiatowski

ONE PHOTOGRAPHER A DAY

My personal Substack

John Judis and Paul Starobin started Foreign & Domestic because they wanted a platform where they could write what they want. They are friends who often exchange views but don't agree on everything and speak only for themselves.

John is one of the most trenchant writers on politics. Check out his new book, Where Have All the Democrats Gone?

- Kerry Tremain

Coleman’s Corner

By Coleman Hughes

Searching for truth in an uncertain world

Finally, a straight-up defense of the values of the Civil Rights Movement and liberalism against the essentialist tribalism of so-called anti-racists.

- Kerry Tremain

Bastiat's Window

By Robert F. Graboyes

Robert Graboyes. Economist/journalist/musician writes on economics, ethics, health, technology, culture.

Refreshing takes on a happy variety of subjects. Robert's study of the history of eugenics and its parallels in contemporary intellectual fads is particularly insightful.

- Kerry Tremain

Unsafe Science

By Lee Jussim

Social science, common sense, and skepticism applied to controversial topics, and occasional personal takes and twists.

For the curious and contrarian—studies that contradict what you think you know.

- Kerry Tremain

The Prism

By Gurwinder

A guide to navigating the digital age

Prisms refract. You only think you know what you think.

- Kerry Tremain

Liberal Confessions

By Carol Horton

Reflections of a disillusioned progressive liberal who's lost faith in the narrative but still believes in democracy.

Fair For All

By FAIR Substack

Promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding, and humanity.

FAIR is leading the fight against divisive race-based practices in education and the professions. I'm not always in agreement with everything written, but support the mission.

- Kerry Tremain

Journal of Free Black Thought

Black viewpoint diversity

The notion that all blacks don't (or shouldn't) think alike should not be controversial.

- Kerry Tremain

Photo Meditations

By George

Photo Meditations is a newsletter dedicated to sharing Prose, Philosophy, Poetry with Fine Art Photography. For anyone looking to reconnect deeply with emotion, and see the world in a whole new way

Thinking about...

By Timothy Snyder

Opening the future by understanding the past.

It Bears Mentioning

By John McWhorter

Sometimes race, sometimes language, sometimes something else. Every week.

While best know for tackling what he calls the woke religion, McWhorter also manages to cover a variety of topics from his field of linguistics to music and theater.

- Kerry Tremain

The Free Press

By Bari Weiss

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

Bari Weiss speaks from the center right in ways that frequently challenge my thinking. They've done some big stories: I particularly liked the series on JK Rowling. And they are strong and smart in defense of Jewish life, which is much needed now.

- Kerry Tremain

Glenn Loury

Race, inequality, and economics in the US and throughout the world, by Glenn Loury.

One of the intellectual leaders of the pushback against so-called anti-racist ideology and the idea that victimhood should define black experience.

- Kerry Tremain

The Greater Quiet

By Steve Brodner

Living and Dying in America. A Daily Chronicle 2020-22.

Steve is a brilliant artist, satirist, and visual journalist. I don't always agree, but I'm always challenged.

- Kerry Tremain

The Liberal Patriot

By John Halpin

Political and policy analysis from the vital center.

Smart commentary on politics, particularly regarding the future of the Democratic Party.

- Kerry Tremain

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

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

Journalists that are skeptical of the party line and do their homework always have my respect.

- Kerry Tremain

Persuasion

By Yascha Mounk

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

Mounk consistently has impressive guests. And his outlook and book on the rise illiberalism on the left offers some of the most potent criticism of an ideology that has been overtaking our schools, media, and culture.

- Kerry Tremain

The Weekly Dish

By Andrew Sullivan

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

Never a dull moment with Andrew. Great guests, too.

- Kerry Tremain