Substacks recommended by Maarten Boudry’s Substack

Recommended by Maarten Boudry’s Substack

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

The Poetry of Reality Page is hosted by world renowned evolutionary biologist and best-selling author, Professor Richard Dawkins, celebrated by intellectuals and scientists everywhere for his honest critique of religion and his push for critical thinking.

Hyperdimensional

By Dean W. Ball

A newsletter about emerging technology and the future of governance.

Experimental History

By Adam Mastroianni

1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.

Optimally Irrational

By Lionel Page

Deciphering why people and society work the way they do

The Prism

By Gurwinder

A guide to navigating the digital age

Persuasion

By Yascha Mounk

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

Uncharted Territories

By Tomas Pueyo

Understand the world of today to prepare for the world of tomorrow: AI, tech; the future of democracy, energy, education, and more

Yascha Mounk

Big ideas that help you think for yourself.

Sam Harris

Sam Harris is the author of five NYT bestsellers, host of the Making Sense podcast, and creator of the Waking Up app.

Virginia's Newsletter

By Virginia Postrel

Commerce, culture, and curiosity; progress & abundance

The Tracinski Letter

By Robert Tracinski

News and Analysis from an Individualist Perspective

Hopeful Monsters

By Étienne

Culture, technology, and other macromutations

Liveware

By Alex Telford

I write about the science and business of living things: the biotech industry, drug discovery, biology, medicine, consciousness, intelligence (artificial and natural), and natural philosophy. Mostly I write about the biotech industry.

Ryan McKay

Psychologist at Royal Holloway, University of London

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

Noah Smith is in a league of his own in the blogosphere. Who else manages to produce such a steady stream of well-crafted, extremely informative & lively posts?

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From Poverty to Progress

By Michael Magoon of “From Poverty to Progress”

Promoting an awareness and understanding of human material progress. How we got it, and how we can keep it going.

Consistently informatve, upbeat and constructive! We need more "progressives" like Michael (i.e. people who *actually* believe in progress)

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The Works in Progress Newsletter

By Works in Progress

New and underrated ideas to improve the world. Visit our website: worksinprogress.co

The Weekly Anthropocene

By Sam Matey-Coste

Dispatches Against Despair, from the Wild, Weird World of Humanity and its Biosphere.

Maximum Progress

By Maxwell Tabarrok

Maximum Progress is a blog by Max Tabarrok on economics, science, philosophy, and progress.

The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter

By Steve Stewart-Williams

The newsletter of Professor Steve Stewart-Williams. Evolutionary psychology, sex differences, nature and nurture, science, philosophy, and more.

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

The Overflowings of a Liberal Brain

By Helen Pluckrose

The Overflowings of a Liberal Brain is a community-driven publication that addresses political & cultural issues and offers a liberal perspective on how to understand them and respond to them.

Helen wrote some of the most insightful books and articles on the rise of postmodernism and other fashionable nonsense undermining Western civilization. I'm very happy to have discovered her on Substack!

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Bende van de Vooruitgang

By Marco Visscher

Wij prijzen de overwinning op armoede, ziekte, onwetendheid en onderdrukking. Wij betogen: met ambitie, innovatie en creativiteit pakken we ook nieuwe problemen aan.

The Elysian

By Elle Griffin

Exploring utopian futures through long-form essays and collaborative print pamphlets. Join us to get the Manifesto!

The Elysian is one of the most upbeat, beautiful and inspiring places on the internet. My favorite antidote against reading the news every morning (which is invariably depressing)!

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Risk & Progress

By J.K. Lundblad

Exploring risk, human progress, and your potential.

Excellent blog on human progress and why it's (still) vulnerable!

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My personal Substack

Political and policy analysis from the vital center.

The Ecomodernist

By Breakthrough Institute

Building a new environmental paradigm through analyses and essays on politics, nuclear energy, agriculture, critical minerals, permitting reform, and much more. The Ecomodernist is a publication of the Breakthrough Institute.

Caplan and Candor

The newsletter brought to you by Human Progress.

The Honest Broker

By Roger Pielke Jr.

Making sense of science, policy and politics

The Roots of Progress

By Jason Crawford

The history of technology and the philosophy of progress, plus announcements from the Roots of Progress Institute

Conspicuous Cognition

By Dan Williams

Writer. Academic philosopher. Writing about philosophy, psychology, evolution, politics, artificial intelligence, and more.

Quillette’s Substack

TEN YEARS OF IDEAS

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

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

Ruxandra's Substack

By Ruxandra Teslo

Pro-progress, anti-safetyist commentary on Scientific & Cultural matters from a Genomics PhD. Attempting to shape culture towards optimism, an abundance mindset & freedom.

All Predictions Wrong

By Gregg Easterbrook

All Predictions Wrong offers eclectic commentary on science, sports, politics, economics, faith, movie plot holes, cars and my hometown of Buffalo New York. During the NFL season, Tuesday Morning Quarterback is included.

Best Behavior

By Diana Fleischman

An evolutionary psychologist on the art and science of shaping behavior.

Laura London's Blog

investigating how the atomic bomb reshaped attitudes toward technological progress, nature, and civilization—through the lenses of history, philosophy, and art | fellow @ roots of progress

Wondering Freely

By Helen De Cruz

Substack by Helen De Cruz, Philosopher. Musings and wonderings about philosophy, religion, art, politics, and literature.

Skillful Notes

By Benjamin Parry

Essays about how people, organizations, countries, and civilizations become competent.

The Mental Immunity Project

By CIRCE

The Mental Immunity Project (MIP) is an ambitious effort to help everyone develop immunity to all sorts of problematic and false information, including misinformation, extremism, conspiracy theories, and propaganda.

Claire’s Substack

By Claire Lehmann

My personal Substack

I admire Claire's intelligence and her unwavering and consistent defense of liberalism. Launched amid the Great Awokening, her magazine Quillette was prescient and clear-eyed about the spread of a stifling new ideology across campuses and other progressive spaces. But as lot has changed since then. As the Right escalated its attacks on liberal norms, free speech, and universities, Quillette has taken them to task too. Claire has never wavered in her defense of classical liberal values.

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