Substacks recommended by Daniel W. Drezner

Recommended by Daniel W. Drezner

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

A pioneering scholar-commentator on this here site.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

He's the reason I learned about Substack.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Faster, Please!

By James Pethokoukis: Faster

Discovering, creating, and inventing a better world through technological innovation, economic growth, and pro-progress culture.

Pretty good stuff on the future of technological innovation

- Daniel W. Drezner

Global Dispatches

By Mark Leon Goldberg

Smart, deeply reported analysis on international affairs, global crises, and the UN — trusted by diplomats, journalists, and policy experts.

Everything United Nations All At Once.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Blue Blaze

By Jennifer Lind

International relations and US foreign policy, off the main trail

The world needs these four political scientists to write this kind of stuff way more often.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Paul Krugman

Notes on economics and more

Duh.

- Daniel W. Drezner

#MHAWS: Mirya Holman's Aggressive Winning Scholars Newsletter

By Mirya

Surviving and thriving in academia

Excellent advice for fellow political scientists and academics.

- Daniel W. Drezner

McFaul's World

By Michael McFaul

Explaining international politics, and especially the fight between autocrats and democrats in the world today.

Systematic Hatreds

By Paul Musgrave

A personal view of international relations, political science, and academia. Essays about research, teaching, and current events.

The first IR scholar to have a Substack. He reminds me of younger me, but hopefully without getting denied tenure.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Truth and Consequences

By Michael A. Cohen

A no-holds-barred look at the absurdities, hypocrisies, and surreality of American politics

To the Contrary

By Charlie Sykes

You are not the crazy ones.

DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before

By Brad DeLong

One of the best ways to learn to make sense of money, work, communication, production, distribution, and more. Betting that in the course of human things the future must resemble even if it does not reflect the past, people being much the same over time.

Brad is a old-school political economy blogger who usually knows what he's talking about.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Tusk

By Seth Masket

Understanding U.S. political parties, who they nominate, how, and why, by Seth Masket

Silver Bulletin

By Nate Silver

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

Nobody's heard of this guy, hope he makes makes it to the big time on Substack!

- Daniel W. Drezner

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

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

Honestly at this point I'm just in awe of the shitposting. He's taken it to the level of art.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Chris Miller's Newsletter

Technology, politics, supply chains, chips, AI, economics, history. And whatever else is on my mind.

Flack

By Lulu Cheng Meservey

A new playbook for communications

Lulu recruited me to Substack, which is only fair, since back in the day I was recruiting her to the Fletcher School!

- Daniel W. Drezner

Comment is Freed

By Sam Freedman

Politics, policy analysis, and foreign affairs from Sam and Lawrence Freedman

So maybe read one of the world's leading experts on strategy is all I'm saying here.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Good Politics/Bad Politics

By Jonathan Bernstein

A Plain Newsletter About Government and Elections in the US with Jonathan Bernstein, Julia Azari, and David S. Bernstein

There's some smart American politics being written here.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Chartbook

By Adam Tooze

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 best analytic charts in the business.

- Daniel W. Drezner

The Bulwark

The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, and more. We are the largest pro-democracy bundle on Substack for news and analysis on politics and culture—supported by a community built on good-faith.