
A newsletter devoted not to polemic, but to trying to make sense of today's world.
| Platform | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issues | 252 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
| Active | |||||

A spectre is haunting the Professional and Managerial Caste (PMC) of the western world, together with their captive media, and their political expression, The Party. There have been similar spectres in the past—notably of Revolution, Commun...
Towards the end of the 1970s, there was a movement in Britain called Punk, mostly expressed in music, but in some other forms of art as well. I never much cared for it, although it’s true that it was a useful corrective to the inane pomposi...
Our politicians and our media, it appears, find it difficult to handle more than one conflict at a time. So as Mr Trump’s lunatic military escapade in and around Iran has stumbled on, the fighting in Ukraine has largely been forgotten, apar...
Last week, we looked at the grip that the western Professional and Managerial Caste (PMC), and its political expression, The Party, has progressively acquired on western political life, and how it happened. We noted that many traditional po...
I don’t know what ideas Festival of Humanity would conjure up in the mind of the average Anglo-Saxon. Happy-clappy guitars, perhaps, peace and love? Desmond Tutu and Ursula von der Leyen? In fact, it’s all to do with a newspaper.
L’Humanit...
Subscribers, engagement, traffic and sponsorship for Trying to Understand the World.
| Subscribers | Engagement | 82 | Monthly Web Visits | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accepts Sponsors | Estimated Cost per Ad | ||||
Where Trying to Understand the World ranks on Google, and how much search traffic it brings in.
| Ranked Keywords | 42 | Monthly Search Traffic | Top Keywords |
|---|
How this newsletter ranks in the official Substack charts.
| #40 | |
| #61 |
The writers behind this newsletter.
Been there, done most of it. Time to write about it now.
You can find recent issues that have been published by Trying to Understand the World on Reletter by scrolling up to where it says Latest Issues. Tap on the link for any of the most recent emails or hit More Issues to see older ones.
To see how many people subscribe to Trying to Understand the World, simply upgrade your Reletter account. We provide readership numbers and lots of other stats for this newsletter so you can decide if it's worth reaching out to.
Newsletter advertising can be extremely effective when it's done right. Before you pitch Trying to Understand the World as a potential sponsor or partner, make sure that you've done your research and checked its newsletter stats with Reletter.
Then, personalize one of our winning pitching templates and send it to the right person using the contact info provided.
Newsletter ad rates (or CPM) vary depending on many factors, including industry, number of subscribers, open rate, ad placement and more.
To find out how much an ad will cost, contact Trying to Understand the World using the contact information provided and ask for a copy of their media kit.
Scroll up to where it says Related Newsletters to see other publications like Trying to Understand the World. You can also search our email newsletter directory to discover other newsletters that cover the topics you're interested in.
Reletter provides this newsletter's website URL above, where you will often find their contact information. We also provide links to associated social media accounts and pitching templates so you can reach out fast.