Compact Magazine's Substack

It's worse than you think

Analysis and criticism of the antiliberal right, social-justice progressivism, and cultural topics

Explorations in Faith

cool but rude

Notes on economics and more

the junk shop of history

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

No-nonsense reporting on the U.S. national security state and politics.

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.