Substacks recommended by The Gene Pool

Recommended by The Gene Pool

Jack Ohman's You Betcha!

By Jack Ohman’s You Betcha!

Commentary, columns, cartoons, and more...

StBeals

By Stephen Beals

Life is like a shopping cart.

DeWitt's End

By Michael DeWitt Jr.

Your home for all types of captivating storytelling, from Southern humor and historical tales to true crime and Southern Gothic fiction.

Dr. Mardy's Substack

By Dr. Mardy Grothe

Weekly E-Newsletter

Counterpoint’s Substack

My personal Substack

Hey Pop

By Dan Stone

About the intersection of family life, work, and creativity. Hey Pop includes a podcast and written posts by me and a wonderful cast of contributors.

Dan Stone is a smart, thoughtful man, an excellent writer, and a Substack executive who has saved my ass 4,000-plus times.

- The Gene Pool

American Crisis

By Margaret Sullivan

A newsletter that explores the crucial relationship between journalism and American democracy.

everyone is entitled to my own opinion

By Jeff Tiedrich

I read the news today, oh boy

A wonderfully vicious Trump hater.

- The Gene Pool

Bully Pulpit

By Bob Garfield

A wry and pointed take on politics, media and society from Bob Garfield.

She is Substack famous. She writes well. She nails everything she writes. A historian with a historian's viewpoint and spot-on analysis.

- The Gene Pool

How to Succeed in Sportswriting (without Really Trying)

By Gare Joyce

The life of a journeyman critic of the perspiring arts. Yes, some of the essays will be sport-ish. Others, however, will delve into matters beyond the sandbox. Writing about writing, sports or otherwise. Trying to avoid self-inflicted type-casting.

The Invitational

By Pat Myers

Links from Pat Myers, Empress of The Invitational, the irreverent weekly humor/wordplay contest recently canceled by The Washington Post but now run by the Empress and Czar Gene Weingarten at GeneWeingarten.substack.com.

Read Max

By Max Read

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.

Starship Casual

By Jeff Tweedy

Jeff Tweedy shares songs, advice, general musings, and whatnot...

Indignity

By Tom Scocca

Essays, inquiries, arguments, advice, and archaic sandwiches for hungry readers.

I Might Be Wrong

By Jeff Maurer

Comedy, politics, and swearing in pretty much equal amounts.

The guy can write, and think, and delivers spanking fresh, wicked similes.

- The Gene Pool

Robert Reich

Daily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused

Your Intermittent Lex

By Lex Friedman

This site has moved. Read this article, subscribe, and find lots more Lex content at the new home for Your Intermittent Lex: https://lexfriedman.com/newsletter/

Culture Shlock

By Malcolm Fleschner's Culture Shlock column

Malcolm Fleschner's award-winning (well, award-*won* anyway) humor column