Substacks recommended by Shadi Hamid

Recommended by Shadi Hamid

Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

By Elise Labott of Cosmopolitics

An insider's guide to understanding your world and the people who run it.

Elise Labott is one of the best foreign policy journalists out there. A must-read.

- Shadi Hamid

Theory Matters

By Sam Mace

My posts generally focus on political theory intersecting with practical political matters. Whilst theory is oftentimes archived away, I believe it has a strong place to better understand and explain our political landscape. I hope you enjoy this blog :)

If you're into democratic theory

- Shadi Hamid

*Some Assembly Required

By John Inazu

Reflections on Protests, People, and Pluralism

John Inazu, the author of the influential book Confident Pluralism, is one of the most thoughtful scholars of religion, law, and politics around.

- Shadi Hamid

Cracks in Postmodernity

By Stephen G. Adubato

Subverting subversiveness through pretentious and ironic cultural commentary that gives precedence to aesthetics and ontology over ethics and politics.

The name says it all.

- Shadi Hamid

House of Strauss

By Ethan Strauss

Sports, Business, Politics, Culture

Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism

By FAIR Substack

Promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding, and humanity.

Proud to be on the advisory board this important organization shining a light on wokeness run amok and mobilizing institutional responses

- Shadi Hamid

Murtaza Hussain

Book reviews, interviews, and social commentary.

Short and sharp book reviews

- Shadi Hamid

The Islamic Triumvirate

By Omar

This is a Substack by three colleagues writing about the world around us.

The Liberal Patriot

By John Halpin

Political and policy analysis from the vital center.

Very, very good. Sensible—almost too sensible.

- Shadi Hamid

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.

For informed, deep analysis on economic history

- Shadi Hamid

Glenn Greenwald

Independent, unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction.

Glenn Greenwald. Enough said. Challenging and combative, you don't have to agree with Glenn to benefit from his writing.

- Shadi Hamid

The Beinart Notebook

By Peter Beinart

A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.

For all things Israel-Palestine and much more.

- Shadi Hamid

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

Conversations on genetics, history, politics, books, culture and evolution

Razib, to put it mildly, is legendary. So is his Substack.

- Shadi Hamid

The Weekly Dish

By Andrew Sullivan

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle," - Orwell

Political Currents by Ross Barkan

This is Ross Barkan's newsletter - original essays on politics, society, and culture

Sharp and pleasantly unpredictable left-y analysis on domestic politics

- Shadi Hamid

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

One of my favorite reads. Noah is extremely sharp and each of his posts is genuinely informative and entertaining in a way that's getting rarer.

- Shadi Hamid

Wear We Are

By Michael & Melissa Wear

From Michael and Melissa Wear, Wear We Are offers original analysis, exclusive interviews and curated news and content about faith, politics and public life.

Michael and Melissa Wear are fighting the good fight, making the case for why Democrats shouldn't lose their religion

- Shadi Hamid