My 21 Favorite Posts on Substack So Far This Month

Here are a few that grabbed my attention since Monday.

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Apr 07, 2024

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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, “The Second War of Attrition, that’s what we should call this war.” Israel had a War of Attrition along the Suez Canal at the end of the 1960s…

a year ago · 20 likes · 3 comments · 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…

a year ago · 6 likes · 1 comment · 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…

a year ago · 77 likes · 7 comments · Brian Klaas

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…

a year ago · 14 likes · 2 comments · 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 …

a year ago · 44 likes · 5 comments · Daniel J. Arbess

A Review Of Some Of The Contents Of My House By A Domesticated Moorland Pixie

“Pixy/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…

a year ago · 190 likes · 27 comments · 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 …

a year ago · 57 likes · 18 comments · 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…

a year ago · 39 likes · 10 comments · 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 “liberalism.” (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 …

a year ago · 12 likes · Robert Tracinski

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…

a year ago · 47 likes · 44 comments · 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…

a year ago · 23 likes · 7 comments · Simon Owens

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…

a year ago · 217 likes · 13 comments · Alexander Vindman

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 “international law” 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 “criticism…

a year ago · 219 likes · 44 comments · Eve Barlow

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 “Apocalyptic Systems Thriller” 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…

a year ago · 45 likes · 39 comments · 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…

a year ago · 38 likes · 16 comments · S Peter Davis

Joe Biden Is Not a “Genocidal Maniac”

a year ago · 404 likes · 507 comments · 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…

a year ago · 36 likes · 16 comments · Chris Dalla Riva

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…

a year ago · 10 likes · 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…

a year ago · 49 likes · 19 comments · 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…

2 years ago · 47 likes · 71 comments · Amran Gowani

The Right Can't Love America Because it Hates Liberalism

According to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will quickly end the war in Ukraine if he is elected, by refusing “a single penny” of aid and effectively forcing the country’s capitulation to Russia. The statement, which followed Orbán’s meeting with Trum…

2 years ago · 50 likes · 33 comments · Cathy Young

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I Read This Over Shabbos

Hi David! Thank you so much for the mention and recommendation, I am so beyond honored. And thank you for the other recommendations, there are some here that I have not seen before. Excited to discover new writers.

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