Substacks recommended by Daniel W. Drezner

Recommended by Daniel W. Drezner

A Plain Newsletter About Government and Elections in the US with Jonathan Bernstein, Julia Azari, and David S. Bernstein

There's some smart American politics being written here.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Blue Blaze

By Jennifer Lind

International relations and US foreign policy, off the main trail

The world needs these four political scientists to write this kind of stuff way more often.

- Daniel W. Drezner

The Universal and the Vacuous Events

By R Meager

Either rotten or good, or both rotten and good

Programmable Mutter

By Henry Farrell

Technology and politics in an interdependent world

Eventually, one of my claims to fame will be that I co-authored with this gentleman.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Tusk

By Seth Masket

The 2024 Republican invisible primary and beyond, from the perspective of a political scientist

Global Dispatches

By Mark Leon Goldberg

Global Dispatches serves: Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Sustainable Development, Global Health, Crises, Human Rights, International Relations -- and world news that matters "To Save Us From Hell" is our new weekly podcast about the United Nations!

Everything United Nations All At Once.

- Daniel W. Drezner

McFaul's World

By Michael McFaul

Analyzing the fight between democrats and autocrats around the world. Cheering for the democrats to win.

Silver Bulletin

By Nate Silver

Essays and analysis about elections, media, sports, poker, and all the other things I care about.

Nobody's heard of this guy, hope he makes makes it to the big time on Substack!

- Daniel W. Drezner

WORLD GONE WRONG

By J.M. Berger

Extremism, social media, disinfo, technology, dystopia.

One of the most intelligent voices out there analyzing extremism.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Abu Aardvark's MENA Academy

By Marc Lynch

Everything MENA Political Science and Politics

If you want to understand the Middle East, this is the Substack for you.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Comment is Freed

By Sam Freedman

Politics, policy analysis, and foreign affairs from Sam and Lawrence Freedman

So maybe read one of the world's leading experts on strategy is all I'm saying here.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Flack

By Lulu Cheng Meservey

A new playbook for communications

Lulu recruited me to Substack, which is only fair, since back in the day I was recruiting her to the Fletcher School!

- Daniel W. Drezner

Faster, Please!

By James Pethokoukis: Faster

Discovering, creating, and inventing a better world through technological innovation, economic growth, and pro-progress culture.

Pretty good stuff on the future of technological innovation

- Daniel W. Drezner

Laura McKenna's Apt. 11D

Laura McKenna on Politics, Schools, and Life

We all need the perspective of a salt-of-the-Earth blogger from Jersey.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Truth and Consequences

By Michael A. Cohen

A no-holds-barred look at the absurdities, hypocrisies, and surreality of American politics

Chartbook

By Adam Tooze

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.

The best analytic charts in the business.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

Start your day with pragmatic takes on politics and public policy.

Honestly at this point I'm just in awe of the shitposting. He's taken it to the level of art.

- Daniel W. Drezner

Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

Economic history, economics, political economy, finance, & forecasting. Here to try to make you (and me) smarter in a world with many increasingly deep & complicated troubles...

Brad is a old-school political economy blogger who usually knows what he's talking about.

- Daniel W. Drezner