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April 14 2023 · Edited Feb 18, 2026

Substack’s CEO Would Rather Not Think About the Racist Stuff. Okay?

Substack chief Chris Best said he didn't want to "engage in speculation" about statements like “all brown people are animals."

by anon

December 21 2023 · Edited Feb 18, 2026

Hamish McKenzie (@hamish)

Hi everyone. Chris, Jairaj, and I wanted to let you know that we’ve heard and have been listening to all the views being expressed about how Substack should think about the presence of fringe voices on the platform (and particularly, in this case, Nazi views). I just want to make it clear that we don’t like Nazis either—we wish no-one held those views. But some people do hold those and other extreme views. Given that, we don't think that censorship (including through demonetizing publications)

by anon

December 13 2023 · Edited Feb 18, 2026

Substack shouldn’t decide what we read

We should.

by anon

December 14 2023 · Edited Feb 18, 2026

Substackers Against Nazis

A collective letter to Substack leadership

by anon

January 12 2024 · Edited Feb 18, 2026

There Are Major Factual Issues With Jonathan M. Katz’s ‘Atlantic’ Article, “Substack Has A Nazi Problem”

Plus some other thoughts on this profoundly myopic moral panic

by anon

February 10 2025 · Edited Feb 18, 2026

Reforming the DEI Reforms

MEI: Merit, Economics, and Ingenuity as a solution

by anon

December 31 2025 · Edited Feb 18, 2026

Progressives Must Apologize (Before It’s Too Late)

A reckoning with 21st century progressive excess and the imperative for reform

by anon

December 19 2025 · Edited Feb 18, 2026

DEI, the Dispossessed Generation, and the Digital Koryos

Young white men should be furious about what has been done to them, but begging for victim status will get them nowhere

by anon

December 31 2025 · Edited Feb 18, 2026

Highlights From The Comments On Vibecession

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by anon

December 4 2025 · Edited Feb 18, 2026

Vibecession: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

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by anon

December 4 2025 · Edited Feb 18, 2026

You can afford a tradlife

It’s rising, not falling, wages and incomes that make full-time homemaking rare.

by anon

November 26 2025 · Edited Feb 18, 2026

How Not to Redefine Poverty

Debunking the Worst Poverty Analysis I Have Ever Seen

by anon

December 2 2025 · Edited Feb 18, 2026

Below the $140,000 "poverty line"? Give anyway.

A few hundred dollars isn't going to change how financially strapped the upper middle class feels.

by anon

December 5 2025 · Edited Feb 18, 2026

Why Do People Feel Like They Are Falling Behind?

A different way of understanding arguments about single-income mid-century families.

by anon

October 10 2025 · Edited Feb 15, 2026

Ingots We Trust - 금괴를 믿나이다 (원문: 2025년 10월 8일)

급등하는 금값, 우리에게 중요한 메시지를 전하고 있는가?

by anon

March 30 1924 · Edited Feb 15, 2026

Mr. Keynes on the Mysteries of American Finance; The Gold Standard "a Barbarous Relic," and Other Opinions in His "Monetary Reform"

Keynes, J M, Monetary Reform

by anon

November 14 2014 · Edited Feb 15, 2026

Inflation Truth, Really

We are not Argentina, and Argentina is not us.

by anon

February 15 2026 · Edited Feb 15, 2026

Who Is Paying the Trump Tariffs?

A wonkish guide for the confused

by anon

February 12 2026 · Edited Feb 15, 2026

Who Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs? - Liberty Street Economics

Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the tariffs were paid by the U.S., using import data through November 2025. We find that nearly 90 percent of the tariffs’ economic burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers.

by anon

January 25 2025 · Edited Feb 15, 2026

No, Trump Can’t Make Manufacturing Great Again

We’re a service economy now — and that’s OK