My 60 Favorite Substacks of 2025

I am subscribed to 983 newsletters. Here is the small sliver of writers who stand out the most to me.

When I joined Substack a few years ago with a mission to use the platform as the primary home base for our book publishing company, I deliberately set out to try and read widely, to take in a broad variety of perspectives beyond my own.

This did not work very well, I soon discovered. I had cast my net too widely, and now my Substack Notes feed resembled …