Substacks recommended by Mary Poindexter McLaughlin

Recommended by Mary Poindexter McLaughlin

The Critical Middle

a refreshing dose of rational thought

Essays to point the way back to a long-forgotten place... yep, you guessed it, the Critical Middle.

- Mary Poindexter McLaughlin

The Quaking Poplar 🌳

By Barbara Sinclair

Whatever's on my mind that makes it to the page. Usually, Nature is involved. 🌿

Step into the woods with Barbara and you'll never want to leave.

- Mary Poindexter McLaughlin

Juvenescence with Leah McLaren

A newsletter by the journalist and author Leah McLaren. Weekly essays on life, love, the creative unconscious and the tragicomedy of being alive -- plus regular video interviews with writers.

World in Transition

By Michael Warden

Discerning bigger patterns in turbulent events everywhere unfolding

Reading Michael's writing feels like pulling up a chair next to your super-smart, compassionate friend, and listening to him connect all the dots.

- Mary Poindexter McLaughlin

The Forgotten Side of Medicine

By A Midwestern Doctor

The Forgotten Side of Medicine is a leading Substack newsletter. Here I expose pharmaceutical corruption and remarkable therapies lost to time for the health of humanity.

Outspoken with Dr Naomi Wolf

Essays, updates and arguments from an eyewitness to a new dark age, with thoughts on how to keep liberty, justice and human rights alive.

Kathleen Devanney's Newsletter

By Kathleen Devanney. A human.

Reflections and commentary on The Great Unraveling, and Why the future for humanity is positive on the other side of the current collapse.

Third Paradigm

By Tereza Coraggio

A woman's pov on Global Economics, Geopolitics, Psyops & Propaganda, Spirituality, A Course in Miracles, Community Sovereignty. Author of How to Dismantle an Empire.

Dr. Lindsay Mumma’s Newsletter

By Lindsay Mumma

Using optimistic skepticism to deliver a full serving of health-related info with a healthy dose of sarcasm to chase it down

Visceral Adventure

Musings on our humanity, culture, and transcendence.

Slowdown Farmstead

By Tara

Cultivating authenticity in a synthetic world. Ruminations on ancestral food, healthy living, family, homesteading, connection to the natural world, life, death and this radical little thing called "sovereignty".

Tell Me How This Ends

By Chris Bray

Elite class ritual performance, cultural and political decline, military culture, and the dismal state of American journalism.

uTobian

By Dr. Toby Rogers

It doesn't have to be like this.

VeganWeekly

By Jack McNulty

VeganWeekly is committed to inspiring people to create delicious, accessible, and healthy plant-based food as frequently as possible.

Charles Eisenstein

Essays on civilization. myth, politics, ecology

Down the Wombat Hole

By Isaac Middle

Wholesomely Conspiratorial Astrology

Margaret Anna Alice Through the Looking Glass

Unmasking totalitarianism and awakening the sleeping before tyranny triumphs by examining media narratives, propaganda, psychology, framing, philosophy, history, politics, language, literature, film, music, culture, and health with a focus on COVID.

Margaret Anna Alice, like Alice in Lewis Carroll's masterpiece, is an intrepid explorer. There is no darkened corner of this fearsome world that she will not shine her light of truth upon, with intelligence, wit, and heart.

- Mary Poindexter McLaughlin

Solace for Sensitive Souls Newsletter

By Rev Katie Grace

Nuggets of wisdom on self-care, parenting and relationships that help Sensitive Souls access their spiritual superpowers.

I love reading Rev Katie Grace's newsletter, because just like her, it's both completely grounded AND spiritually-savvy.

- Mary Poindexter McLaughlin

The Truth Barrier

By Celia Farber

Writings present and past by Celia Farber

Racket News

By Matt Taibbi

News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.