Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Scrawling socialism on walls.

A newsletter about class, news, and more

your flagship web site for my damned posts

Cultural and literary essays. Flavour profile: hints of bitterness, notes of saltiness.

Reflections on writing, creativity, and the insights I’m learning on my journey toward the publication of my debut novel in March of 2024 and beyond.

drawings from nightclubs and warzones

Essays and analysis about elections, media, sports, poker, and all the other things I care about.

A newsletter committed to exploring how and why democracy produces "bad" outcomes—and what to do about it. And other things that may or may not be completely unrelated to that.

Anything and everything.

Looking at the intersection between the new media trends of now and the legacy media trends of yesterday.

One man's commentary on politics, culture and society

Criticism, essays, etc.

literature & culture

It's a wonderful world—meet the inhabitants!

Sports, Business, Politics, Culture

All politics is local.

Congress is the engine to our democracy that keeps America running. However, little is understood about what goes on inside this beautiful place.

A little Substack for big fiction

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

cool but rude

Think of these as signatures, unbound. Thoughts, explanations, and screeds about the publishing industry by Anne Trubek, founder of Belt Publishing. For the bound version, pick up "So You Want To Publish A Book?" Belt Publishing, July 2020.

Will Leitch's weekly free newsletter with an original essay, and links to everything he writes.

The history and politics of monopoly power.