They're interesting because they show exactly the sort of vacuous garbage one can expect when an amateur is is trying to make a name for themselves as a writer and has no editor to slap their hand or even ask for some sort of coherence.
> In addition to teaching nonfiction writing at the University of Montana, Kirn was the 2008–09 Vare Nonfiction Writer in Residence at the University of Chicago. He graduated with an A.B. in English from Princeton University in 1983 after completing a 22-page-long senior thesis entitled "Entangling Breaths (Poems)." Following that, he obtained a second undergraduate degree in English Literature at Oxford University, where he was a Keasbey Scholar.
You don't think this guy can get a job as an editor?
Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibi, Andrew Sullivan, The Dispatch are all fine Substack publications.
Their audiences are really small however, it's the total opposite of populist, I'm not sure how much influence they could possibly have.
Where you have what passes for freedom of speech, the corrollary is that everyone has the freedom to oppose your views.