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My 21 Favorite Posts on Substack So Far This Month

Here are a few that grabbed my attention since Monday.

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Here’s an experiment with a new style of post here at GOTD. I’ve done round-ups of Substacks that I like, but I’m not sure there’s been one yet of posts from a particular period. Well, now seems like a good time to go through the week and see what jumped out and merits a recommendation.

I hope you enjoy:

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis
Today is six months. Six months of war, of sadness, of fear. "I'm stepping on the pain and creating something new."
At synagogue a week or two ago, someone I know sat down next to me. We looked at each other, and sighed. What, really, is there to say? Then he turned to me again and said, ā€œThe Second War of Attrition, that’s what we should call this war.ā€ Israel had a War of Attrition along the Suez Canal at the end of the 1960s…
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2 years ago Ā· 20 likes Ā· 3 comments Ā· Daniel Gordis
I Read This Over Shabbos
6 Books To Make You Fall in Love With Books Again
Hi friends, This week, we're fortunate to feature a selection of books curated by one of our cherished friends and esteemed members of the 18Forty/I Read This Over Shabbos team, Yehuda Fogel. Yehuda is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at LIU Post and editor at 18Forty…
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2 years ago Ā· 6 likes Ā· 1 comment Ā· I Read This Over Shabbos
The Garden of Forking Paths
Why We Need Fools: Jesters, Power, and Cults of Personality
Thank you for reading The Garden of Forking Paths. If you’d like to support my research and writing, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription (it’s only $4/month). Alternatively, you can support me by ordering my new book, FLUKE: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters…
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2 years ago Ā· 77 likes Ā· 7 comments Ā· Brian Klaas
Flux
Upcoming solar eclipse heralded as sign of Jesus’s return by fundamentalist Christians
By Eric Vanden Eykel Does the upcoming solar eclipse signal the second coming of Jesus? In all likelihood, no, but that hasn’t stopped people from speculating that it does.Flux is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free…
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2 years ago Ā· 14 likes Ā· 2 comments Ā· Flux
Future of Jewish
Israel's existential war is a favor to humanity.
Future of Jewish is the ultimate newsletter by and for people passionate about Judaism and Israel. Subscribe to better understand and become smarter about the Jewish world. Please consider supporting our mission to help everyone better understand and become smarter about the Jewish world. A gift of any …
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2 years ago Ā· 44 likes Ā· 5 comments Ā· Daniel J. Arbess
The Villager
A Review Of Some Of The Contents Of My House By A Domesticated Moorland Pixie
ā€œPixy/Piskie: This is the standard term in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset for a fairy, though many writers from the early 19th Century onwards have insisted that the two races are quite distinct.. (A pixie’s) best-known characteristic is causing…
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2 years ago Ā· 190 likes Ā· 27 comments Ā· Tom Cox
Future of Jewish
Stop expecting Israel's army to be perfect.
Future of Jewish is the ultimate newsletter by and for people passionate about Judaism and Israel. Subscribe to better understand and become smarter about the Jewish world. Please …
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2 years ago Ā· 57 likes Ā· 18 comments Ā· Joshua Hoffman
Future of Jewish
The Final Battle for the Holocaust
Future of Jewish is the ultimate newsletter by and for people passionate about Judaism and Israel. Subscribe to better understand and become smarter about the Jewish world. Please consider supporting our mission to help everyone better understand and become smarter about the Jewish world. A gift of any amount helps keep our platfo…
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2 years ago Ā· 39 likes Ā· 10 comments Ā· Michael Oren
The Tracinski Letter
Man at the Center of a Godless World
I already cross-posted to this list my recent piece in The UnPopulist on atheism as a foundation for ā€œliberalism.ā€ (I think I have already trained my readers to interpret that word, not in its partisan 20th-Century usage, but in the political philosopher’s meaning: advocacy of a free society.) I wanted …
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2 years ago Ā· 12 likes Ā· Robert Tracinski
The UnPopulist
The Faithless Are the More Reliable Liberals
The UnPopulist has published a series of articles on how political liberalism is compatible with and supported by the world’s major religious traditions: Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists. With such solid support from every major faith, you would think liberalism ought to be winning hands-down…
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2 years ago Ā· 47 likes Ā· 44 comments Ā· Robert Tracinski
Simon Owens's Media Newsletter
Not all traffic sources are created equal
Welcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my media industry newsletter. If you've received it, then you either subscribed or someone forwarded it to you. If you fit into the latter camp and want to subscribe, then you can click on this handy little button…
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2 years ago Ā· 23 likes Ā· 7 comments Ā· Simon Owens
Why It Matters
Ukraine's Victory Remains in Reach
The negative news coverage of the Ukraine-Russia conflict has unleashed a flood of dire predictions. However, doomsayers’ forecasts are overly grim and the outcome can be much more favorable for Ukraine with the right support and proper adjustment of both the United States’ and Ukraine’s strategy…
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2 years ago Ā· 217 likes Ā· 13 comments Ā· Alexander Vindman
Blacklisted
Hear us
It is six months since October 7. For six months, IRI proxy Hamas has had the upper hand in our mainstream media, in the realm of ā€œinternational lawā€ and in the eyes of NGOs, and Iran has used this moment on the world stage to galvanize as much attention as possible to indoctrinate the world with blood libel and classic antisemitism masked as ā€œcriticism…
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2 years ago Ā· 219 likes Ā· 44 comments Ā· Eve Barlow
Read Max
What is "Substackism" and where does wellness fit in?
Greetings from Read Max HQ! In today’s newsletter, two items: The burgeoning Substackist ideology and the place of woo and alternative wellness inside it; the genealogy of the ā€œApocalyptic Systems Thrillerā€ and a call for recommendations. A reminder: Read Max is my sole source of income and is supported almost entirely by the still somewhat confusing gener…
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2 years ago Ā· 45 likes Ā· 39 comments Ā· Max Read
Plato Was a Dick
Agnostic Extremism: How Neutral Questions Become Political
The novelist, comedian, TikTok guy Jason Pargin has a bit that he’s been doing for as long as I can remember. Every couple of years he brings it up again, on TikTok or on Twitter or wherever he wants to stir shit, and I’m pretty sure he does it just to watch the world burn…
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2 years ago Ā· 38 likes Ā· 16 comments Ā· S Peter Davis
The Bulwark
Joe Biden Is Not a ā€œGenocidal Maniacā€
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2 years ago Ā· 404 likes Ā· 507 comments Ā· Tim Miller
Can't Get Much Higher
The Land Where the CD Never Died
Each year, we get industry reports from music organizations like the RIAA, the IFPI, and Luminate. The top line numbers for 2023 are worth celebrating. According to the IFPI, total recorded music revenues crossed $28.6 billion in 2023, up 10.5% from 2022 and 58.7% from 2019. Of course, much of this was driven by the global proliferation of streaming, bu…
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2 years ago Ā· 36 likes Ā· 16 comments Ā· Chris Dalla Riva
Rushkoff
Native ecosystems live here
On this week’s Team Human I respond to questions and comments submitted by Team Human members through our Discord server. It’s a test-drive of what we hope will soon be a live-streamed call-in style show. We’re highlighting a question from longtime teammate Brynna, who asked about how we can address ecosystem blindness…
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2 years ago Ā· 10 likes Ā· Douglas Rushkoff
Future of Jewish
The Jewish state’s most vital voices are not Jewish.
Future of Jewish is the ultimate newsletter by and for people passionate about Judaism and Israel. Subscribe to better understand and become smarter about the Jewish world. Please consider supporting our mission to help everyone better understand and become smarter about the Jewish world. A gift of any amount helps keep our platform free and zero-adverti…
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2 years ago Ā· 49 likes Ā· 19 comments Ā· Joshua Hoffman
Amran Gowani's Field Research
A literary hodgepodge
Hey Friends, Welcome back to Field Research, the humor and satire publication written and produced by me, Amran Gowani. It’s been way too long since my last post, which is why I’m thrilled to share tod…
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2 years ago Ā· 47 likes Ā· 71 comments Ā· Amran Gowani
The UnPopulist
The Right Can't Love America Because it Hates Liberalism
According to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor OrbĆ”n, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will quickly end the war in Ukraine if he is elected, by refusing ā€œa single pennyā€ of aid and effectively forcing the country’s capitulation to Russia. The statement, which followed OrbĆ”n’s meeting with Trum…
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2 years ago Ā· 50 likes Ā· 33 comments Ā· Cathy Young
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