Substacks recommended by Matthew Stanley

Recommended by Matthew Stanley

Political Theorist from the University of Cambridge. Author of The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut & Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies

Benjamin is a learned, original, and deeply patient thinker who elevates his readers' ability to think clearly about the concepts at play in politics today

- Matthew Stanley

Lee Fang

Investigations and observations about the public interest.

Lee's journalistic work uncovers details you won't hear anywhere else about the effect that money and private networks have on politics today, both left and right

- Matthew Stanley

Theory Underground

By TU HQ

Theory Underground is a seminar, lecture, and book publishing organism for workers with earbuds and professionals who see no hope in existing institutions. Livestreams, podcasts, books, courses, seminars... GET INVOLVED

Dave and the TU team are doing more than anyone else to theorize "the Situation" in the post-class fractured mass, moving through media studies to philosophy to sociology.

- Matthew Stanley

Philosophy Portal

By Cadell Last

Idealism and Psychoanalysis

Cadell is pushing the boundaries of philosophical reflection on our political and technological singularity, bringing Hegel, Lacan, and Žižek into conversation with systems and complexity theory.

- Matthew Stanley

O.G. Rose

Great to meet you! Our work orbits around how the true isn’t the rational, conflicts of mind, ontological ironies, the fate of beauty, belonging again, (re)construction, and some good stories.

prolific and highly interdisciplinary essays wrestling with the constraints of our current social, economic, political, and discursive arrangements.

- Matthew Stanley

Recovering Anarchist

By Kier Adrian Gray

Examining ideology, morality, and social norms on the left.

Kier writes smart, reflective, and insightful pieces about de-radicalizing from leftist and activist circles

- Matthew Stanley