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Middle East Uncovered

Voices from the ground. Perspectives that matter.

Escape the herd.

Independent, citizen-funded journalism

Deeply Problematic

By Jonathan Kay

A substack newsletter from Jonathan Kay

This Substack by FAIR Advisory Board member Jonathan Kay to stay updated on what's happening in Canada

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The TERF Report

By Kara Dansky

Your go-to resource for all things related to the radical feminist movement to protect the sex-based rights of women and girls and to stop the abolition of sex in the United States (and occasionally in other parts of the world).

The Free Press

By Bari Weiss

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

THE EQUIANO PROJECT

By The Equiano Project

The Equiano Project promotes freedom of speech and open dialogue on race, culture and politics.

Discourse

By The Mercatus Center

Where Ideas Meet. Subscribe now to receive your free digital copy of Discourse's Abundance Agenda print edition.

Beyond Intractability

By Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess

Free updates about BI’s exploration of strategies for more constructively handling all types of intractable conflict, including the hyper-polarized, political conflicts that are tearing society apart. Click "No Thanks" to read without subscribing.

Free the Inquiry

By Heterodox Academy

Free the Inquiry brings you fresh news, smart commentary, original research, and expert analysis from the Heterodox Academy staff to keep you informed on what's happening at the intersection of open inquiry and viewpoint diversity in higher ed.

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

Heal the West

By Julian Adorney

Focused on combating illiberalism and extremism via spiritual formation and rebuilding the American community.

Dissident Muse Journal

By Franklin Einspruch

A consideration of art, freedom, and civilization.

Informed Dissent

By LGB Courage Coalition

A weekly news podcast: Dispatches from the gender culture war with Cori Cohn, Jamie Reed and Lauren Leggieri.

The International Correspondent

By Faisal Al Mutar

The International Correspondent is home to thoughtful, well-informed, bold foreign policy analyses, as well as stories of the triumph of the human spirit in the pursuit of freedom.

Heterodoxy in the Stacks

By HxL Substack

Intellectual freedom, library neutrality, and libraries in democracy

Skeptic

By Michael Shermer

Examining the World Through a Scientific Lens

Journal of Free Black Thought

Black viewpoint diversity

The Coddling of the American Mind Movie

By Ted Balaker

AN ANXIOUS GENERATION SEARCHES FOR HAPPINESS. Substack presents the feature documentary based on The New York Times bestselling book by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. Produced by Courtney Moorehead Balaker. Directed by Ted Balaker.

"The Coddling of the American Mind" movie is now available for viewing on all streaming platforms. FAIR is proud to have collaborated with Ted Balaker for its release.

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The State of the Arts

By Clifton Duncan

Fostering a Cultural Revolution.

Courage Coalition

By LGB Courage Coalition

Lesbian, gay, bisexual adults concerned with pediatric gender medicine and the censorship of dissent. We won't be silenced.

The Same Drugs

By Meghan Murphy

Conversations outside the algorithm

Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Human nature, psychology, social class, luxury beliefs, and more.

Beyond Plastic MD

By Richard Tavares Bosshardt

Welcome to my substack. As a lifetime reader, I felt it was time to get out of the stands and onto the playing field by writing my own stuff. My interests are wide ranging so you might find anything on my site. Medicine, of course is close to my heart.

Man of Steele’s Substack

By Eli

We are writers, thinkers, and filmmakers caught up in the culture wars of our times.

Reality’s Last Stand

By Reality's Last Stand

Holding the line on free speech, science, and reality.

The Agonist with Shadi Hamid

A home away from home. Arguments, thoughts, first drafts.

Konstantin Kisin

Politically Non-Binary Opinions on Culture, Politics and Comedy

Musings with Chloé Valdary

By Chloé Simone

Wherever Muse is, there I will follow. ✨

The American Saga

By Zaid Jilani

News and views covering America's story from a decidedly anti-partisan perspective.

I N Q U I R E

By INQUIRE

Examining America's political, media, and elite class discourse with Zaid Jilani and Shant Mesrobian.

Glenn Loury

Race, inequality, and economics in the US and throughout the world, by Glenn Loury.

Habits of a Free Mind

By Pamela Paresky

Habits of a Free Mind™ is a toolkit for engaging across lines of difference without feeling traumatized and without dehumanizing others.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

By Restoration

Decades ago, I escaped the Islamic world and came to the West. Many don't know how good the West is, or how fragile. I fight for the restoration of what made the West great.

Restore Childhood’s Newsletter

By Natalya Murakhver

Let’s prioritize and protect our children. One story at a time.

BROADview

By Lisa Selin Davis

A newsletter about the gender culture wars, & the history, science, psychology & politics of gender nonconformity—misunderstood by the Right and Left. Where do our ideas of normal for boys and girls come from? Speaking the unspeakable. Pro-complexity.

Public

By Michael Shellenberger

Reporting on free speech, civilization, and humanity.

"Public" by FAIR Advisory Board member Michael Shellenberger is one of the best sources for news and information on censorship, anti-authoritarian government control, government and institutional promotion of illiberal gender and DEI ideologies, practical approaches to climate change, and more.

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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.

Sey Everything

By Jennifer Sey

A newsletter about woke capitalism and standing up to group-think. And anything else I feel like writing about.

It Bears Mentioning

By John McWhorter

Sometimes race, sometimes language, sometimes something else. Every week.

James Esses

Fighting back against the ideological capture of society - one article at a time.

Singal-Minded

By Jesse Singal

A newsletter about science, social-justice-activism, why they sometimes fight, and how to help them get along better -- plus a good deal of other, more random stuff.

The Weekly Dish

By Andrew Sullivan

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

The Bigger Picture

By Monica Harris

A home for independent thinkers who question their social, economic, and political reality.

After Babel

By Jon Haidt

A free weekly newsletter where Jon Haidt and his team make sense of how technology is reshaping society — and offer practical guidance on how we can respond.

Substack by FAIR Advisory Board member Jonathan Haidt, where he shares his views and uses moral psychology to explain why so much is going wrong.

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Yascha Mounk

Essays and conversations about big ideas that don't need a news hook.

Persuasion

By Yascha Mounk

The community for those who believe that a free society is worth fighting for.

Notes of an Omni-American

By Thomas Chatterton Williams

Reading, Writing, Thinking, Improving, Traveling, Seeing, Tasting

Fair For All

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