Substacks recommended by Annie Gottlieb

Recommended by Annie Gottlieb

Mainstream-defying reflections on (geo)politics, economics, war, energy and life in general.

An ongoing conversation on liberalism & its alternatives and the home of Alex Kaschuta's writing and Subversive Podcast.

The Mazaj

By Zahra

A Psycho-Philosophical Exploration of The Human Experience by Zahra Bilal

Glenn Loury

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

One of my favorite commentators. Thoughtful, searching, sane, peppery, and funny.

- Annie Gottlieb

Caitlin’s Newsletter

By Caitlin Johnstone

Articles, poems, stories and thoughts by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley. Everything published here will always remain free to read.

Random ruminations

These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here

Words fail. Just trust me.

- Annie Gottlieb

An Irritable Métis

By Chris La Tray

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.

Social Studies

By Leighton Woodhouse

Politics, media and social theory

Unpopular Front

By John Ganz

the junk shop of history

Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Human nature, psychology, social class, luxury beliefs, and more.

Seymour Hersh

It's worse than you think

Sherman Alexie

poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video

Compact’s Substack

By Compact Magazine

Compact Magazine's Substack

Dick Russell’s Substack

News and views about environment and public health, UFOs, depth psychology, the Kennedy assassination and more.

Sanity, wide-open-mindedness, and insider information from the biographer and friend of RFK Jr., the biographer of psychologist James Hillman, author, environmentalist, patient investigator of mysteries.

- Annie Gottlieb

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck

I explore subjects ranging from the mystical and psychedelic to the political and mundane.

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington's Newsletter

Ecstatic Integration

By Jules Evans

Improving western culture's ecstatic literacy Critical thinking on psychedelics & spirituality from best-selling author, founder of the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project, 20 years experience writing for The Times, BBC, Economist and others.

Sarah Kendzior’s Newsletter

Non-fiction horror stories. Politics, history, travel.

The Mizrahi Perspective

By Alon Mizrahi

Renounce, deconstruct, repeat (I know my heart, the rest it easy) (left Zionism, never looking back).

As a (post-) Jew who sees that Israel is the death of Judaism, I am struck by Alon’s anger and grief that are yet somehow without bitterness.

- Annie Gottlieb

Everything is Personal

By Laurie Stone

The story is not about what happened, it's about what the narrator makes of what happened.

CJ Hopkins

Political satire and commentary

by Laura Jedeed

Your Place: Resonance in Monochrome

Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From

By Kollibri terre Sonnenblume

Plant advocacy

After the Future

By Jack Whelan

Avigail Abarbanel’s Fully Human Essays

I write about Israel’s settler-colonialism in Palestine, and worsening genocide. I studied sociology, politics and economics, but I write mostly with psychotherapist hat on. (Comments defending or minimising genocide will be removed).

The Big No

Recommended by Annie Gottlieb