Substacks recommended by The Agonist with Shadi Hamid

Recommended by The Agonist with Shadi Hamid

Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

By Elise Labott of Cosmopolitics

An insider's guide to understanding your world and the people who run it.

Elise Labott is one of the best foreign policy journalists out there. A must-read.

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Theory Matters

By Sam Mace

My posts generally focus on political theory intersecting with practical political matters. Whilst theory is oftentimes archived away, I believe it has a strong place to better understand and explain our political landscape. I hope you enjoy this blog :)

If you're into democratic theory

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*Some Assembly Required

By John Inazu

Reflections on Protests, People, and Pluralism

John Inazu, the author of the influential book Confident Pluralism, is one of the most thoughtful scholars of religion, law, and politics around.

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Cracks in Postmodernity

By Stephen G. Adubato

Cultural commentary that gives precedence to aesthetics and ontology over ethics and politics.

The name says it all.

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Fair For All

By FAIR Substack

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

Proud to be on the advisory board this important organization shining a light on wokeness run amok and mobilizing institutional responses

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Murtaza Hussain

Book reviews, interviews, and social commentary.

Short and sharp book reviews

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Word from the Bird

By Mike Bird with Word

A newsletter about Christian faith, biblical scholarship, and contemporary issues.

The Islamic Triumvirate

By Omar

This is a Substack by three colleagues writing about the world around us.

The Liberal Patriot

By John Halpin

Political and policy analysis from the vital center.

Very, very good. Sensible—almost too sensible.

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The Beinart Notebook

By Peter Beinart

A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.

For all things Israel-Palestine and much more.

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Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

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

Razib, to put it mildly, is legendary. So is his Substack.

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The Weekly Dish

By Andrew Sullivan

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle," - Orwell

Wisdom of Crowds

We are against consensus. // An ideas collective and debate platform co-founded by Damir Marusic and Shadi Hamid.

My other home — a newsletter, podcast, and debate platform focused on "first principles" that I co-founded. Check it out.

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Political Currents by Ross Barkan

This is Ross Barkan's newsletter - original essays on politics, society, and culture

Sharp and pleasantly unpredictable left-y analysis on domestic politics

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Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

One of my favorite reads. Noah is extremely sharp and each of his posts is genuinely informative and entertaining in a way that's getting rarer.

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Wear We Are

By Michael & Melissa Wear

From Michael and Melissa Wear, Wear We Are offers original analysis, exclusive interviews and curated news and content about faith, politics and public life.

Michael and Melissa Wear are fighting the good fight, making the case for why Democrats shouldn't lose their religion

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