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If you're on the political left and you're not reading Discourse Blog, you're missing out on one of the most essential reads of the 2020s. As its name suggests, Discourse Blog harkens back to the golden age of blogging, free from corporate influence or click-through-rate-obsessed headline workshoppery. If you read The Present Age and think, "Oh wow, I wish there was more stuff like this in the world," Discourse Blog should be the very next subscription you add to your reading list.
Without a doubt, Mehdi Hasan is one of the most essential voices in journalism.
Norman Brannon is a great guitarist and just as good of a writer and interviewer. If you're into hardcore music, you should already be well acquainted with Anti-Matter. Go subscribe, enjoy the interviews, etc.
I've been a Thursday fan since high school, so I'm biased, but Geoff's Substack is genuinely one of his more interesting outputs. He's writing personal essays, serializing short stories about life on tour, and sharing unreleased music. He calls it "solo record." His solo record isn't music. It's writing. And it's worth your time.
Taylor is one of the best writers on planet Earth, and if you're not reading her work on influencers, the attention-economy, etc., you're missing out on a big chunk of that world.
