Unpopular Front

weekly evidence of my listening and reading.

Comments on life, literature, parties, and basketball.

Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith, two former senior government lawyers from different political backgrounds and administrations, decode the presidential power issues and controversies of the day.

I write gift guides for people who read books. I link to all sorts of things.

The food I make and what I think about it

Anastasia's posting

Political philosophy, psychoanalysis, spirituality. literature. Not necessarily in that order.

Weekly dispatch on Israel/Palestine, with on-the-ground reporting from the West Bank and the occasional longread. I read everything so you don’t have to.

Reflections on American democracy and its discontents

News and views on Japan's politics

Analysis and criticism of the antiliberal right, social-justice progressivism, and cultural topics

In-depth about the Kremlin

Criticism, essays, etc.

20th century history and 21st century political economy

deep dives into trains, transit and politics (usually outside US)

Explaining the weird new future, one newsletter at a time. Subscribe for a twice weekly delivery of internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come.

A newsletter about money, politics and power.

reading the American past into the American crisis--and vice versa

From the author of Surveys, Sleeveless, and Artless: more missives from a life of freelance in the one and only New York City.

Essays about books, opera, and whatever else I'm interested in.

Continuous Variation is a journal of the current past.

Economic history, economics, political economy, finance, & forecasting. Here to try to make you (and me) smarter in a world with many increasingly deep & complicated troubles...

A newsletter and podcast for all the good kids.

About books, TV, movies, and higher etiquette. Also God sometimes. Also Taylor Swift.