Resources

Reporting

  • The Economist The indispensable global news weekly.
  • The New Yorker The best writing in the English language lives here.
  • The Wall Street Journal The gold standard for what we used to call journalism.
  • The Financial Times The Wall Street Journal for the rest of the world.
  • Real Clear Politics A portal for political writing.
  • The Washington Post Passed the gray lady as our paper of political record.
  • TechCrunch Self-absorbed and measures history in minutes -- but breaks a lot of tech news.
  • Technology Review Accessible technology writing from MIT.

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  • Marginal EconomicsTyler Cowan and team host smart debates.
  • Ann Althouse  University of Michigan law professor who seldom gets fooled.
  • Huffington Post  Yes, the left has a tabloid.
  • Christopher Hitchens  Our foremost rhetorical pugilist.
  • David Brooks  The 700 word wonder.
  • Gary Becker- Richard Posner The power duo of Chicago law and economics.
  • George Will Last of the intelligent monarchists.
  • Jim Fallows Sinophile, aerophile, and Fallowphile.
  • James Surowiecki An economist at the New Yorker -- whoda thunk it?
  • Lawrence Lessig Thoughtful guy on IP law who is oddly drawn to political office.
  • Malcom Gladwell The academics whose work he monetizes wish they could write like he does.
  • Megan McArdle First rate next generation economic thinker.
  • Michael Totten Vagabound war correspondent worth tipping.
  • Mickey Kaus Unmedicated commentary on cars and politics.
  • Robert Kuttner A New Dealer, whether it's in fashion or not.
  • Robert Reich Can popularize any idea good or bad. And probably has.
  • Robert Samuelson Sees around a lot of economic corners.
  • The Onion Yes, you will cry.
  • Tim O'Reilly Tech publisher and zeitgeist monitor.
  • Tom Friedman Knows a lot about the Middle East. Writes about everything.
  • Tom Peters Has more good ideas about organizations each day than most consulting firms do every year.
  • Victor Davis Hanson Conservative classicist farmer with a better sense of history than humor.
  • Virginia Postrel Refreshing, iconoclastic, idiosyncratic.
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