The Newsletter Underclass 🖋
When I saw The Atlantic taking in a whole slew of major writers under its brand name as a part of a major experiment in newslettering, I have to admit that I was happy to see a brand that big make such an ambitious bet.But I also sort of felt like it reinforced a precedent around newsletters that wasn’t true when I personally started—Tedium came to life around 2015, nearly three years before Substack and two years before Revue—but has become increasingly true thanks to things like venture capit…