The Broken Hand Dispatches is a personal newsletter of essays and reflections on resisting the pressures of modern work and consumer life, such as a profile of a man building a sandcastle-style fortress on a New Zealand beach. Its issues also share poetry and contemplative writing about slowing down, paying attention, and finding meaning outside economic routines.
Website: https://www.brokenhand.nz/
Astral Codex Ten publishes long-form essays on AI safety, rationality, politics, science and culture, alongside reader-written book reviews and weekly open threads. Readers get argumentative, carefully reasoned analysis plus community news such as meetups, surveys and grant-related projects.
Sub Umbra publishes essays on the history of esoteric and occult thought, tracing how ideas such as enchantment, the occult and the monad changed meaning across eras. Readers get carefully sourced historical and philosophical analysis that challenges common narratives.
A Catholic theology publication that explains and defends doctrine using the Scholastic and Thomistic method, including responses to contemporary debates and multi-part series on topics like penal substitution and Protestantism. Readers get long, citation-heavy articles drawing on papal teaching, councils and Scholastic authors.
Poems, essays and commentary from poet David Whyte, with context on how and where each piece was written. Readers get reflective writing on love, resentment, nature and everyday human experience, plus material from his Three Sundays Series.
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