Better Strangers
Matt HershbergerFacing a bleak world with hope, imagination, and curiosity. betterstrangers.substack.com
Integrity and "the last inch of us" in the fight against fascism
Apr 17, 2024 • 10m
On the sanity of worshipping sock puppets
Mar 27, 2024 • 13m
How to build a community fridge
Feb 21, 2024 • 12m
Did COVID really prove that humans are terrible?
Feb 7, 2024 • 10m
Is mutual aid inherently revolutionary?
Jan 24, 2024 • 15m
Santa Claus, Godkiller and Mushroom Shaman
Dec 25, 2023 • 6m
Best Books of 2023 (for people who had a rough year)
Dec 20, 2023 • 12m
Britt Hartley on helping people step back from the void
Dec 13, 2023 • 11m
A user's guide to overcoming nihilism
Dec 6, 2023 • 13m
How do you survive the death of a dream?
Nov 29, 2023 • 7m
How to fight political despair
Nov 15, 2023 • 9m
Round-up: The Peace-to-War Pipeline in Two Poems
Nov 10, 2023 • 5m
Meet an Activist: Revolution from within the system
Nov 8, 2023 • 10m
What would an anarchist revolution look like?
Nov 6, 2023 • 11m
Revolutionary Round-Up
Nov 3, 2023 • 8m
Can the earth be saved with nonviolence?
Nov 1, 2023 • 9m
Revolutionary Horror: John Carpenter's "They Live"
Oct 30, 2023 • 12m
Welcome to Better Strangers!
Oct 27, 2023 • 8m
Book Rex: On psychedelics and depression
Oct 17, 2023 • 8m
Why the Spanish Civil War matters
Oct 12, 2023 • 14m
Book Rex: The Queen of Horror
Oct 10, 2023 • 4m
Music Rex: Bruce Springsteen on those who never made it big
Oct 3, 2023 • 6m
Tattoos as a form of self-love
Sep 28, 2023 • 5m
TV Rex: Into the Cartooniverse
Sep 26, 2023 • 5m
Book Rex: Contact
Sep 19, 2023 • 6m
You are what you hate
Sep 7, 2023 • 6m
Book Rex: How to Be a Stoic
Sep 5, 2023 • 6m
Book Rex: Helgoland
Sep 5, 2023 • 6m
Book Rex: The KLF by John Higgs
Aug 29, 2023 • 4m
Your body in the fight against Fascism
Aug 29, 2023 • 8m
Seize the memes of production!
Aug 24, 2023 • 6m
Have you considered going on a internet cleanse?
Aug 23, 2023 • 6m
Book Rex: Traffic
Aug 22, 2023 • 10m
Using curiosity to combat fear
Aug 17, 2023 • 10m
Book Rex: An Immense World
Aug 15, 2023 • 5m
Book Rex: Philosophies for Chaotic Times
Aug 14, 2023 • 5m
Book Rex: The Body Keeps the Score
Jun 26, 2023 • 4m
Hey, it's okay to feel angry and sad about the state of things
Jun 14, 2023 • 6m
Book Rex: How to start taking action
Jun 12, 2023 • 4m
The Jimble-Jamble: Different Perspectives on Time
Jun 9, 2023 • 6m
In defense of moral relativism
May 31, 2023 • 7m
Book Rex: Small is Beautiful
May 29, 2023 • 3m
Jimble-Jamble: Oil ain't gonna save the whales
May 26, 2023 • 6m
How a different understanding of time can help you cope
May 24, 2023 • 5m
Hope vs. Optimism
May 15, 2023 • 5m
On thriving in chaos
May 12, 2023 • 28m
Why it's a good time to visit your local library
May 3, 2023 • 7m
Book Rex: A Psalm for the Wild-Built
May 1, 2023 • 6m
"The Revolution of Everyday Life"
Apr 28, 2023 • 25m
A world of conspiracies
Apr 26, 2023 • 6m
Explaining bad climate politics with the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Apr 19, 2023 • 12m
What's it like to live through collapse?
Apr 14, 2023 • 17m
Misanthropy is a choice
Apr 12, 2023 • 7m
Book Rex: A Paradise Built in Hell
Apr 10, 2023 • 6m
Book Rex: Our Share of Night
Apr 3, 2023 • 5m
On trying to be a straight, cis dude that doesn't suck
Mar 31, 2023 • 22m
Death vs. Sex in America
Mar 29, 2023 • 6m
Is there such thing as anti-capitalist travel?
Mar 27, 2023 • 7m
Against dystopias
Mar 22, 2023 • 6m
Book Rex: Say Nothing
Mar 20, 2023 • 6m
Your dog knows when you masturbate (and other inspiring facts)
Mar 17, 2023 • 19m
Why you'll get more informed from books than the news
Mar 15, 2023 • 6m
Notes from the front lines of the mental health crisis
Mar 10, 2023 • 19m
Happy Russian Revolution Day!
Mar 8, 2023 • 17m
On the 23 Enigma (and how human belief works)
Mar 1, 2023 • 8m
Book Rex: Short Story collections (for the distracted reader)
Feb 27, 2023 • 4m
Against Forgiveness
Feb 24, 2023 • 15m
On the morality of having kids in bleak times
Feb 22, 2023 • 11m
Book Rex: 5 books that will kill your inner patriot
Feb 21, 2023 • 7m
Reading hard books as an extreme winter sport
Feb 17, 2023 • 19m
Where to start with Vonnegut
Feb 15, 2023 • 14m
Book Rex: Transcendent Comics
Feb 13, 2023 • 5m
The internet is the reason you're depressed
Feb 10, 2023 • 26m
On my sudden mid-30s obsession with birds
Feb 8, 2023 • 8m
Book Rex: Nature books that aren't stone-cold bummers
Feb 6, 2023 • 5m
Should parents post pictures of their kids online?
Feb 3, 2023 • 15m
Your helplessness is a delusion
Feb 1, 2023 • 15m
Book Rex: Everything's a cult!
Jan 30, 2023 • 4m
Bad political habits to stop in 2023
Jan 25, 2023 • 7m
Book Rex: How to defeat the Internet
Jan 23, 2023 • 6m
A non-believer's guide to loving cryptids and ghosts
Jan 18, 2023 • 8m
I love libraries
Jan 16, 2023 • 20m
An atheist argument for the existence of gods
Jan 9, 2023 • 15m
Better Strangers #1: Be More Biased!
Jan 2, 2023 • 21m
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