Substacks recommended by Schmendrick K

Recommended by Schmendrick K

Creator of The Martyr Made Podcast, and The Unraveling w/Jocko Willink

I don't know why, but I like history best as a podcast; Darryl is something else, full of passionate intensity yet apparently among the best.

- Schmendrick K

Unfolding the World

By J. Daniel Sawyer

Examining fundamental change during tumultuous times.

Some of the best and most cutting online prose I've read since The Last Psychiatrist.

- Schmendrick K

Numb at the Lodge

By Sam Kriss

These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here

Handwaving Freakoutery

By BJ Campbell

This is a song about culture wars, futurism, apocalypta, and gun math.

If you like guns and numbers and generally bucking trends, this is a fun and entertaining community. Sign up and join the slack--I hear it gets weird in there.

- Schmendrick K

Adam's Curse

By Patrick B. Whalen

"There is no fine thing since Adam's fall but needs much laboring." -W.B. Yeats. Literature, leadership, and locale in an age of mass culture.

Astral Codex Ten

By Scott Alexander

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

If you haven't run into Scott before, then I question where you've spent your online time. He's a true master of blogging.

- Schmendrick K

The Upheaval

By N.S. Lyons (The Upheaval)

Exploring the shared upheavals of our era, including technological and cultural change, the ideological revolution consuming the West, the rise of China, and the crisis of liberalism.

The Brass Bull

Recommended by Schmendrick K