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Virginia Heffernan has 31,598 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. 56 publications recommend them, and they recommend 50.

Followers read

Last read Nov 1, 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
31,598
read Nov 1
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
15K+
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
100+
bestseller badge 100+
Recommended by
56
none new in 30 days
Recommends
50
Bestsellers rank
not on a board

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. 2 days of readings. 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.

30,50031,00031,50032,00032,500 Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 12 more days to fill this frame 31,598
30,50031,00031,50032,00032,500 Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 8 more days to fill this frame 31,598
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 Virginia Heffernan on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Nov 1, 202631,598+815K+
Oct 31, 202631,59015K+

Leaderboard positions

Not on a category leaderboard right now

Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.

Recommendations

56 publications recommend Virginia Heffernan. Virginia Heffernan recommends 50, and 5 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

Aug 22FebAugFebAugFebAugFebAug
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 Mar 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
2022-081
2022-121
2023-111
2025-012
2025-021
2025-034
2025-045
2025-054
2025-063
2025-072
2025-083
2025-104
2025-115
2025-123
2026-012
2026-025
2026-032
2026-042
2026-053
2026-071
2026-082

Recommended by

  • E. Jean Carroll222k followers · started Aug 2022 · mutual
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  • Valerie Monroe57k followers · started Mar 2025 · mutual
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  • Omnishamblesstarted Apr 7, 2026 · mutual
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  • Debistarted Dec 12, 2025
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  • Medicine Womenstarted May 2025 · mutual
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  • Hammertownstarted Apr 2025
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Recommends

All 50
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  • Radical Reportsstarted Mar 2024
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  • After Class with Cadencestarted Mar 2024
  • BAD AT KEEPING SECRETSstarted Mar 2024
  • Everything Is A Wavestarted Aug 2023
  • CultureWagstarted Jan 2023
  • The LZ Sunday Paperstarted Sep 2022
  • Throughline by Jill Filipovicstarted Aug 2022
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  • Club Midstarted Jul 2022
  • Retrostarted Jul 2022
  • Model Citizenstarted Jul 2022

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.

Who recommends writers like this one

Publications that recommend at least two other U.S. Politics writers with 10,000 to 50,000 followers (39 writers in that group), but not Virginia Heffernan.

  • Florida For Jolly
    recommends 8 of them
  • Andrea Elizabeth Bell
    recommends 5 of them
  • Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews
    recommends 4 of them
  • Dean Blundell@deanblundell
    recommends 4 of them
  • Liberty's Lens
    recommends 4 of them
  • L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics
    recommends 3 of them
  • Ragpad
    recommends 3 of them
  • UnitedWeStand's Substack
    recommends 3 of them
  • Steve Schmidt@steveschmidt
    recommends 2 of them
  • Miles Taylor@milestaylor
    recommends 2 of them

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