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Bentham's Bulldog has 32,153 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #67 on Substack's Philosophy Bestsellers board. 60 publications recommend them, 6 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 33.

Followers read · Boards read

Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers
32,153
read Oct 31
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
13K+
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
100+
bestseller badge 100+
Recommended by
60
+6 in 30 days
Recommends
33
Bestsellers rank
#67
Philosophy

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

31,50032,00032,50033,000 Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 One reading a day from here 32,153
31,50032,00032,50033,000 Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 One reading a day from here 32,153
One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Bentham's Bulldog on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Oct 31, 202632,15313K+

Leaderboard positions

BoardRank nowBest on recordReads on it
Philosophy Bestsellers#67#674 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
WriterOct 3107:00Oct 3113:00Oct 3119:47Nov 621:50Move
Philosophy Bestsellers70707067▲3

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

60 publications recommend Bentham's Bulldog; 5 started in the last 30 days. Bentham's Bulldog recommends 33, and 7 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Apr 23OctAprOctAprOctAprOct
Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear. Substack shows only the 50 newest recommenders, so before Dec 2025 (outlined) I see only those from the 6,392 publications whose full lists I read.
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Recommendations started per month
MonthStarted
2023-041
2024-041
2024-061
2024-071
2025-043
2025-051
2025-125
2026-013
2026-025
2026-031
2026-048
2026-054
2026-065
2026-075
2026-085
2026-095
2026-106

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Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.

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