A sack of stubs, a stub sack, a stack of subs, a substack
Asymmetrical praise here, but I still have to say that there is just no one else in the world like Stephen Fry. Had he not existed, I wouldn't have even thought it possible to be so perfectly absurd, intelligent, and sincere all at once.
Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire from UC Santa Cruz history professor Benjamin Breen. Also: using AI in research and teaching.
My personal Substack.
Personal views only.
Actually, not even personal views.
I don't even know what my personal views are anymore.
It doesn't matter.
Read anyway!
Le Père Duchesne résiste à la morosité ambiante avec ses réflexions culturelles, littéraires et historiques. Une infolettre qui circule sous le manteau à l'abri des culture wars.
An ocean of stories from Salman Rushdie: I'll be talking about stories I’ve read or seen, true stories, tall stories, stories about me, and some I just made up.
Exploring the Christian moral life with cold takes and nuance. The moral life of the Christian community, and those things which sustain and damage it.
Notes, insights and conversations on writing, music, art, philosophy and creativity from the founding editor of The New York Times philosophy series The Stone.
explorations at the intersections of deep time, theology, the human past, and the fraught present
"The adaptations, the fusions /
the transmogrifications /
but always /
the inward continuities /
of the site /
of place"
Essays by Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly columnist and author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), What If This Were Enough? (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2011)
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.
News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.
