Substack Attack
20th March 2021
Different sorts of writers have found a home there: right-leaning commentators like Jonah Goldberg and Erick Erickson, left-wing journalists such as Judd Legum and Luke O’Neil, and a swelling pool of progressive authors who have struggled to fit in at ideologically conformist progressive publications. Among these are Matt Yglesias, Andrew Sullivan and Glenn Greenwald, who left Vox, New York magazine and the Intercept respectively to build their own platforms.
This development has not gone down especially well among progressives, with inevitable results. As The Spectator’s own Stephen L. Miller said in November, ‘It’s only a matter of time before the media tech hall monitors turn their attention to Substack.’
Well, here they come — sizing up the platform like mobsters sizing up a shop that has just opened in their neighborhood.