Substacks recommended by Yassine Meskhout

Recommended by Yassine Meskhout

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

Those Who Tremble As If They Were Mad

By Trembling Mad

A newsletter about The Discourse

A vitally important catalogue of the many ways online discourse stumbles into pitfalls. I want much more of this.

- Yassine Meskhout

Socratic Psychiatrist

By Martin Greenwald

And men go to marvel at the heights of mountains, the great waves of the sea, the broad falls of the rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering...

Inverse Florida

Renegade political sociology(?) focused on trying to drag the hidden engines of our lives and thoughts into the light, so we can shout at them until they shape up.

A bevy of incisive insights on the political subcultures that influence the discourse we marinate in. Criminally underrated and underappreciated.

- Yassine Meskhout

Tracing Woodgrains

By TracingWoodgrains

A former Mormon's chaotic pursuit of order in a world gone mad

Trace is a treasure. Unimpeachable integrity combined with a relentless and indefatigable pursuit of truth, wherever it might lead.

- Yassine Meskhout

First Toil, then the Grave

Politics, Irish culture, aesthetics, rants, musings

The Watch

By Radley Balko

Reporting and commentary on civil liberties and the criminal justice system. Plus other stuff.

Radley Balko's coverage of the criminal justice system has has been an outsized inspiration on why I do what I do for a living.

- Yassine Meskhout

Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Foreign policy, American politics, and social science