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- Sources
- 140
- Posts and episodes
- 44,309
- Podcasts
- 34
- Newsletters
- 92
- Latest post
- 12 hours ago
Who publishes here — active in the last 90 days
Ted Gioia
1,495 posts
Writer, jazz pianist and cultural critic who covers music, books, film and the culture business. Author of 12...
Melvyn Bragg
1,071 posts
Broadcaster and novelist known for In Our Time, the BBC Radio 4 academic discussion series he took over in 199...
David Gemeinhardt
1,062 posts
I write about what I call the Versailles Century (1682-1789), that period when the Kings of France resided in...
Allan John (What Is Stoicism?)
1,050 posts
Practical philosophy to help you (and me): 💀LEARN from the past ⏳PLAN for the future 🌷LIVE in the present
Ryan Holiday
1,033 posts
Author focused on marketing, culture and Stoic philosophy. His books include Trust Me, I'm Lying, The Obstacle...
Neil deGrasse Tyson
1,006 posts
Astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, who explains...
Noah Smith
995 posts
Econ blogger
Scott Alexander
994 posts
Psychiatrist and writer who covers AI safety, effective altruism, economic growth and forecasting, and author...
Tyler Cowen
951 posts
Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also Faculty Director o...
Stephen J. Dubner
870 posts
Author and journalist who co-wrote the Freakonomics books with economist Steven Levitt and previously wrote fo...
Lawrence M. Krauss
824 posts
Theoretical physicist and author whose research spans elementary particle physics and cosmology, with a public...
Simon Haisell
772 posts
Newcastle-upon-Tyne writer who produces slow-read guides and read-alongs for long literary works, including Wa...
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What they're talking about — the last 90 days
Who advertises here — active in the last 90 days
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Every source in this collection — 140 of them
| Source | Type | Posts | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| StarTalk Radio | Podcast | 1,136 | 6 days ago |
| In Our Time (BBC) | Podcast | 1,113 | 4 days ago |
| Versailles Century | Newsletter | 1,062 | 3 days ago |
| What Is Stoicism? 🌷 | Newsletter | 1,059 | 1 day ago |
| The Daily Stoic | Podcast | 1,037 | 21 hours ago |
| Astral Codex Ten | Newsletter | 1,035 | 3 days ago |
| Noahpinion | Newsletter | 1,027 | 1 day ago |
| The Honest Broker | Newsletter | 1,019 | 2 days ago |
| Freakonomics Radio | Podcast | 941 | 3 days ago |
| Footnotes and Tangents | Newsletter | 835 | 13 hours ago |
| Marginal Revolution | Blog | 729 | 1 day ago |
| Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning | Podcast | 706 | 1 day ago |
| Radiolab | Podcast | 674 | 3 days ago |
| Into the Impossible With Brian Keating | Podcast | 637 | 3 days ago |
| Hidden Brain | Podcast | 629 | 1 week ago |
| The Walrus | Newsletter | 628 | 17 hours ago |
| Austin Kleon | Blog | 593 | 3 days ago |
| Slow Boring (Matt Yglesias) | Blog | 593 | 1 day ago |
| Hermitix | Podcast | 590 | 5 days ago |
| Proud to be an American, by Tara Ross | Newsletter | 549 | 15 hours ago |
| World War II Today | Newsletter | 549 | 1 day ago |
| Bentham's Newsletter | Newsletter | 544 | 12 hours ago |
| The Ezra Klein Show | Podcast | 541 | 3 days ago |
| Arts & Letters Daily | Newsletter | 534 | 3 days ago |
| Not Boring | Podcast | 530 | 3 months ago |
| Civil War Memory | Newsletter | 529 | 1 day ago |
| Why is this interesting? | Newsletter | 528 | 2 days ago |
| Classical Wisdom | Newsletter | 527 | 1 day ago |
| Journal of Free Black Thought | Newsletter | 523 | 1 week ago |
| Brown History | Newsletter | 517 | 1 day ago |
| Overcoming Bias | Newsletter | 517 | 1 day ago |
| Rob Henderson's Newsletter | Newsletter | 517 | 1 day ago |
| Philosophy Quotes | Newsletter | 516 | 4 days ago |
| Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life | Newsletter | 510 | 4 days ago |
| next BIG future | Newsletter | 510 | 5 days ago |
| Grand Hotel Abyss | Newsletter | 503 | 1 day ago |
| Lex Fridman Podcast | Podcast | 503 | 3 weeks ago |
| https://www.notboring.co | Newsletter | 493 | — |
| The Republic of Letters | Newsletter | 492 | 20 hours ago |
| Washington Review of Books | Newsletter | 491 | 5 days ago |
| The Honest Broker Podcast | Podcast | 490 | 2 months ago |
| Uncharted Territories | Newsletter | 486 | 4 days ago |
| The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss | Podcast | 470 | 2 weeks ago |
| Critical Mass | Newsletter | 466 | 5 days ago |
| MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚 | Newsletter | 455 | 5 days ago |
| The Ruffian | Newsletter | 422 | 2 days ago |
| Fake Noûs | Newsletter | 416 | 2 days ago |
| The Hinternet | Newsletter | 411 | 3 days ago |
| The Marginalian (Maria Popova) | Blog | 408 | 1 day ago |
| Footnotes | Newsletter | 395 | 17 hours ago |
| The Stoic Manual | Newsletter | 378 | 1 day ago |
| Construction Physics | Newsletter | 358 | 2 days ago |
| Very Bad Wizards | Podcast | 358 | 4 days ago |
| The Metropolitan Review | Newsletter | 341 | 1 day ago |
| The Works in Progress Newsletter | Newsletter | 322 | 3 days ago |
| Breaking the News | Newsletter | 319 | 1 week ago |
| The Tim Ferriss Show | Podcast | 312 | 4 days ago |
| Conversations with Tyler | Podcast | 303 | 1 week ago |
| Midbrow | Newsletter | 303 | 15 hours ago |
| Histories | Newsletter | 298 | 3 days ago |
| PBS Space Time | Podcast | 298 | 1 day ago |
| Gastropod | Podcast | 297 | 6 days ago |
| The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish) | Podcast | 290 | 6 days ago |
| The Overlook | Newsletter | 284 | 5 days ago |
| De Geschiedenisreis | Newsletter | 281 | 1 day ago |
| The Redneck Intellectual | Newsletter | 281 | 6 days ago |
| BordoLines | Newsletter | 277 | 2 days ago |
| Conversations with Coleman | Podcast | 264 | 1 week ago |
| Good Thoughts | Newsletter | 262 | 1 week ago |
| More to Hate | Newsletter | 258 | 6 days ago |
| African History Extra | Newsletter | 253 | 1 week ago |
| Hidden Brain | Newsletter | 238 | 6 days ago |
| feminism for all | Newsletter | 222 | 3 days ago |
| Paul Graham: Essays | Blog | 219 | — |
| Wondercabinet | Newsletter | 217 | 4 days ago |
| Aeon | Blog | 215 | 18 hours ago |
| Starts With A Bang | Newsletter | 207 | 2 days ago |
| This Day (A History Show) | Newsletter | 202 | 3 days ago |
| Under the Net | Newsletter | 196 | 2 weeks ago |
| ŽIŽEK GOADS AND PRODS | Newsletter | 195 | 2 days ago |
| Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi | Newsletter | 194 | 6 days ago |
| Stoic Wisdoms | Newsletter | 193 | 6 days ago |
| Mini Philosophy | Newsletter | 185 | 3 days ago |
| Overthink | Podcast | 182 | 1 month ago |
| Small Potatoes | Newsletter | 179 | 1 week ago |
| Make Me Good Soil | Newsletter | 173 | 6 days ago |
| The Believer | Newsletter | 168 | 1 day ago |
| Dan Ariely Looks at Life | Newsletter | 167 | 17 hours ago |
| Within Reason | Podcast | 162 | 2 weeks ago |
| Asterisk Magazine | Newsletter | 157 | 5 days ago |
| Granted | Newsletter | 153 | 1 week ago |
| Coffee with Clio | Newsletter | 145 | 4 days ago |
| How to Take Over the World | Podcast | 142 | 2 months ago |
| Historielunden - en podcast om historia från Kulturen i Lund | Podcast | 140 | 3 days ago |
| Michael Meade | Newsletter | 138 | 2 days ago |
| Alex O'Connor | Newsletter | 120 | 1 week ago |
| Aquinas and Beyond | Newsletter | 120 | 3 days ago |
| Quillette | Newsletter | 114 | 1 day ago |
| Metatrends | Newsletter | 109 | 2 weeks ago |
| My Life in the Past | Newsletter | 108 | 4 days ago |
| Science History Podcast | Podcast | 104 | 1 day ago |
| Derek Thompson | Newsletter | 103 | 18 hours ago |
| Living Proof: the Isaac Newton Institute podcast | Podcast | 95 | 1 week ago |
| Compact | Blog | 88 | 3 days ago |
| Russian Art & Empire | Newsletter | 86 | 5 days ago |
| Andy Masley | Newsletter | 80 | 3 days ago |
| Stoic Reset | Newsletter | 75 | 1 week ago |
| Uncharted Territories (Tomas Pueyo) | Blog | 74 | 4 days ago |
| Cabinet of Wonders | Newsletter | 73 | 1 week ago |
| The H Files by Helen Castor | Newsletter | 68 | 1 week ago |
| The Morning News | Newsletter | 65 | 14 hours ago |
| Botany One | Newsletter | 59 | 22 hours ago |
| Living Myth | Podcast | 58 | 5 days ago |
| Liberties Journal | Newsletter | 52 | 3 days ago |
| Works in Progress Podcast | Podcast | 43 | 1 week ago |
| @jasmine’s substack | Newsletter | 35 | 5 days ago |
| The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss | Podcast | 35 | 1 day ago |
| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry | Blog | 30 | 3 days ago |
| Farnam Street | Blog | 29 | 4 days ago |
| Love of All Wisdom | Blog | 29 | 1 day ago |
| Sinead Bovell | Newsletter | 27 | 1 week ago |
| Skeptic | Newsletter | 27 | 6 days ago |
| Data: Made Not Found (by danah) | Newsletter | 26 | 2 weeks ago |
| Meditations in an Emergency | Newsletter | 26 | 3 days ago |
| Verso: An Art History Podcast | Podcast | 26 | 1 week ago |
| Cal Newport | Blog | 23 | 2 weeks ago |
| Behavior Follows Rewards | Blog | 21 | 1 month ago |
| Sentiers | Newsletter | 21 | 1 day ago |
| Beyond Proof: Stories in Mathematics | Podcast | 20 | 2 months ago |
| Beautiful Public Data | Newsletter | 16 | 3 weeks ago |
| Behavioral Scientist's Book Club | Newsletter | 16 | 1 week ago |
| How To Read This Chart | Newsletter | 16 | 3 weeks ago |
| Scope of Work | Newsletter | 16 | 2 weeks ago |
| Touch Grass | Newsletter | 15 | 1 month ago |
| The Marginal Revolution Podcast | Podcast | 13 | 10 months ago |
| What We Call the Future | Newsletter | 12 | 2 weeks ago |
| Wait But Why | Blog | 10 | 10 months ago |
| Works in Progress Out Loud | Podcast | 10 | — |
| Conversations with AI | Newsletter | 5 | 3 months ago |
| Lex Fridman | Newsletter | 0 | — |
Where these numbers come from
- Sources are hand-picked by us for this market. Post and episode counts are everything we have indexed for them, back to whatever archive the source publishes.
- People and advertisers are everyone credited or heard on these sources in the last 90 days, ranked by every post they have appeared on here. Topics are counted over the last 90 days only.
- A person is counted once per post, whether they wrote it, hosted it, or appeared on it as a guest. Podcast credits come from the transcript.
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