Eventually, the Substack founders had to respond. They couldn’t stare off into the distance like Best did during the Nilay Patel interview in April. So another founder, Hamish McKenzie, finally published a Note saying “yes, we allow Nazis and we’re not going to stop.” Of course, as is too often the case on these things, he tried to couch it as a principled stance
- Robert Reich
- Michael Moore
- Steven Beschloss
- Virginia Heffernan
- Mary L. Trump
- Joyce Vance
- Michael McFaul
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Platformer (Casey Newton)
This is a list of folks I’ve been following on Substack. I currently pay for one of those subscriptions and I will no longer be doing that.
There are a lot of wonderful writers and thinkers in that list and I’m shocked they’ve chosen to hang out in the Nazi bar. It’s disgusting.
I’m sure there are many other great writers I don’t know about using Substack but it’s time to move on people. Start your own blog and offer a newsletter from there. Want to monetize it? Hanging out with Nazis to get a paycheck is still hanging out with Nazis and it means you support them.
Try WordPress, Ghost, or Buttondown.
There are others