Some quick ones:
- Stay Tuned with Preet (legal policy stuff)
- Persuasion with Yascha Mounk (nuanced policy and politics, liberalism)
- Making Sense with Sam Harris (nuanced discussions on culture war topics, but other interesting stuff too).
- Noah Smith Substack
- Money Stuff with Matt Levine (finance)
- Stratechery (best tech analysis)
- Rationally Speaking with Julia Galef
- The Diff (more financial and company analysis)
- The Weekly Dish with Andrew Sullivan (center right, but reasonable - gives me a nuanced perspective on issues I may hold different positions on)
- Coleman Hughes has been interesting too.
- Astral Codex Ten (not really news, but an insightful blog on a wide variety of topics).
- Tyler Cowen and Marginal Revolution
- Balaji Srinivasan on Twitter (not news, but usually interesting and forward looking), same thing applies to others on Twitter if you can find them.
Any of these is 10x better than something like the NYT, on a regular basis. The MSM writing and discussion isn’t even close in complexity or depth. MSM anchors don’t seem as smart (imo) and are mostly preaching to their own choir with whatever motivated reasoning they need to do so.
Thanks again!
Some others that I forgot are the 538 podcast, Bari Weiss, and the new Joe Lonsdale YouTube channel.