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Recommended by Steve Stewart-Williams

A space for those interested in human behavior, warts and all, to delight in unadulterated psychological science. All content is 100% free to subscribers.

Matt Ridley

Author of The Rational Optimist and co-founder of Rational Optimist Society

Yascha Mounk

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

Symbolic Capital(ism)

By Musa al-Gharbi

Exploring the relationships between social justice discourse, inequality, and the rise of the symbolic professions.

Bold Reasoning with Peter Singer

By Suzi Jamil

Explore the intersections of ethics, philosophy, and impactful living.

The Eternally Radical Idea with Greg Lukianoff

A blog about freedom of speech and both the Coddling & Canceling of the American Mind.

An excellent blog by one of the great defenders of free speech of our time: Greg Lukianoff!

- Steve Stewart-Williams

Small Potatoes

By Paul Bloom

Psychology, philosophy, jokes, and more

Optimally Irrational

By Lionel Page

Deciphering why people and society work the way they do

Lionel writes extremely readable, extremely insightful posts on one of the most important theories in the behavioral sciences: game theory. Highly recommended!

- Steve Stewart-Williams

My personal Substack

Free the Inquiry brings you fresh news, smart commentary, original research, and expert analysis from the Heterodox Academy staff to keep you informed on what's happening at the intersection of open inquiry and viewpoint diversity in higher ed.

One of the most important organizations working in academia today.

- Steve Stewart-Williams

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.

Off Label

By Sally Satel

Alternative takes from Sally Satel MD. Sally Satel is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, medical director at a methadone clinic, and lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine

Coleman’s Corner

By Coleman Hughes

Searching for truth in an uncertain world

After Babel

By Jon Haidt

A free weekly newsletter from Jonathan Haidt and his team using moral psychology to explain why so much is going wrong

One Useful Thing

By Ethan Mollick

Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

The Nuzzo Letter

By James L. Nuzzo

The newsletter of Dr. James L. Nuzzo, discussing exercise science, men's health, sex differences, problems in academia, and romantic realism in movies.

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 is one of the clearest, fairest, most fearless thinkers writing today - and also possibly a genius. Her writing will make you think better!

- Steve Stewart-Williams

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

The safe space for dangerous ideas.

Fake Noûs

By Fake Nous

Reasonable thoughts about philosophy, politics, and other interesting stuff.

Provoked with Dr. Todd Kashdan

By Provoked by Dr. Todd Kashdan

Get sophisticated content on well-being and human performance. Access new psychological angles on how to get the good stuff in life.

Todd is one of the world experts on well being, and an insightful and independent thinker. His Substack will help you to lead a better life, while also challenging and enriching your thinking. Highly recommended!

- Steve Stewart-Williams

Bet On It

By Bryan Caplan

Caplan and Candor

Rob Henderson's Newsletter

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

Of Boys and Men

By Richard V Reeves

rising to the challenges faced by the modern male

Unsafe Science

By Lee Jussim

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

The Prism

By Gurwinder

A guide to navigating the digital age

Deep and original insights from a deep and original thinker.

- Steve Stewart-Williams

Skeptic

By Michael Shermer

Examining the World Through a Scientific Lens

Sam Harris

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

Secrets of Grimoire Manor

By Christopher J Ferguson

A novel of gothic horror and suspense. Also...stuff about science, Dungeons and Dragons, video games and more science.

Sharp thinking and original takes from an excellent researcher and prolific writer.

- Steve Stewart-Williams

Fair For All

By FAIR Substack

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

This reminds me of that tragedy...

By Clyde Rathbone

Thoughts in my head that could be in yours too...

The Power of Us

By Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel

Our newsletter is designed to help people get smarter about groups and make groups smarter. Each week, we share science and the stories of social identity, group dynamics, and collective behavior in organizations and society.

Freddie deBoer

cool but rude

The Free Press

By Bari Weiss

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

Reality’s Last Stand

By Reality's Last Stand

Holding the line on free speech, science, and reality.

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

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

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

Conversations on genetics, history, politics, books, culture and evolution

Astral Codex Ten

By Scott Alexander

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

Persuasion

By Yascha Mounk

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

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

Singal-Minded

By Jesse Singal

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.