Economist Bryan Caplan's newsletter offers sharp, opinionated essays on social science, power, immigration, and public intellectuals, often built around experiments and debates. Readers get original arguments with a clear point of view, plus guest replies and analysis of how commentators express contempt and sentiment.

Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.

Personal essays by a former translator and editor of channeled spiritual material, reflecting on his years in a spiritual group and how he came to see them differently. Each issue pairs a concrete memory or anecdote with reflection on belief, memory and persuasion.

Each issue explains one mental model, such as hostile attribution bias, design thinking through Brunelleschi's dome, or the law of closure, and applies it to the work of people who make things. The writing is vivid, historically grounded and draws concrete lessons for creators.