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With the end of the semester and the coming demise of Google Reader, I’m going to take an inventory of my already-thin list of RSS feeds and add and subtract as I deem necessary. Since crowdsourcing is the hip, “in” thing that all the cool kids are doing, I put the question to you, dear readers: to what blogs or other RSS feeds should I subscribe, and why?
I look forward to your suggestions. I’ll reveal my current subscriptions by the end of the week.
READER COMMENTS
Eric Hanneken
May 21 2013 at 11:40am
Obviously, you should avoid feeds for news sites, and you should probably subscribe to EconLog.
Apart from that, I don’t know all of your interests, but here are some other ideas:
F. Lynx Pardinus
May 21 2013 at 11:44am
Disunion from the NY Times has been blogging the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War.
Kevin V
May 21 2013 at 12:21pm
Bleeding Heart Libertarians, because we’re provoking the liberty community to reflect on its most fundamental philosophical and moral commitments.
Jason Sorens
May 21 2013 at 12:46pm
I’ll put in a plug for Pileus — a CL poli sci blog.
RPLong
May 21 2013 at 1:26pm
If you’re not following Jonathan Finegold Catalan’s blog, you should start. That and EconLog are easily the two most thought-provoking blogs on my reel.
I assume you already follow the other ones I read daily (John B. Taylor’s blog, John Cochrane’s blog, Marginal Revolution, etc.)
The Last Psychiatrist is an excellent diversion when you’re tired of economics.
Maximum Liberty
May 21 2013 at 1:29pm
Coyote Blog for a non-academic perspective-correction:
http://www.coyoteblog.com/
Max
inDglass
May 21 2013 at 1:38pm
I have really gotten into The Art of Manliness lately. It covers a whole range of topics that men might find useful and interesting.
Jacob
May 21 2013 at 2:04pm
My favorite non-econ blogs/RSS feeds:
MinutePhysics (http://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics)
XKCD (http://xkcd.com/) and What If? (http://what-if.xkcd.com/)
The Art of Manliness (http://www.artofmanliness.com/)
Hazel Meade
May 21 2013 at 2:30pm
Bleeding Heart Libertarians
Seconded.
Igor Livshits
May 21 2013 at 3:05pm
http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/
(+1 to a suggestion above)
http://www.volokh.com/
http://marginalrevolution.com/
http://www.themoneyillusion.com/
http://cafehayek.com/
http://www.thebigquestions.com/
http://www.overcomingbias.com/
http://www.cato.org/commentary
http://www.cato.org/blog
http://dilbert.com/blog
(he’s really hit or miss, but I find the 5%-10% of hits quite worthwhile)
ColoComment
May 21 2013 at 3:41pm
LOVE Coyote. Warren brings highly educated, small-business, and common-sensical observation to the practical economic world.
Doug
May 21 2013 at 4:58pm
Unqualified Reservations
Sam Wilson
May 21 2013 at 6:17pm
The Munger Family of blogs should form a satellite cluster. In no particular order:
Kids Prefer Cheese
Euvoluntary Exchange
Cherokee Gothic
Not only are Mungowitz and co. entertaining, but they are frequently thought-provoking.
Tony
May 21 2013 at 7:49pm
Xan’s blog: economonomics.blogspot.com
He doesn’t write all the time, but he always seems to have something interesting to say when he does.
Brad D
May 21 2013 at 11:12pm
All these are good.
If you like to follow the Supreme Court, SCOTUS blog is extremely well written.
I also like The Browser @ http://thebrowser.com/
Sam Roggeveen
May 22 2013 at 12:51am
This is shameless self-promotion, so take it for what it’s worth, but the blog I edit on behalf of the Sydney-based Lowy Institute for International Policy has some of the smartest daily commentary around on global political, strategic and economic issues, with an Asia Pacific focus: http://www.lowyinterpreter.org
Joe Cushing
May 22 2013 at 12:54am
Jeffrey Tucker is GREAT on stage and you should YouTube search him but he is also good in text. This blog appears to have other writers with him though. He is a freedom lover with a positive outlook and a great infectious smile.
http://lfb.org/today/
Duane
May 22 2013 at 1:22am
Some you probably already are subscribed to or others have mentioned, but here goes:
– Cafe Hayek
– Arnold Kling
– Megan McArdle
– John B. Taylor
– Keith Hennessey
– Professor (Stephen) Bainbridge
– Simply Statistics
– The Beacon from The Independent Institute
– Foundation for Economic Education
– ThinkMarkets
– The Technium by Kevin Kelly
Dave Tufte
May 22 2013 at 1:33am
I second The Last Psychiatrist.
My favorite one for connecting me to stuff outside my area is bookofjoe.com.
Broadly in businessy sciency areas, try Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed.
David C
May 22 2013 at 1:36am
There are a few smart people from the business world who seem to know a lot about economic issues from a perspective that’s very different from the ones you might get from the academic world. I’d suggest the New York Times Small Business Blog, You’re the Boss, for a very different perspective on economic policy. Check out 20,000 Reasons Not to Hire Someone, particularly the policy recommendation at the end:
http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/20000-reasons-not-to-hire-someone/?gwh=1605CEB69B52B1CED302371A02EB0E40
Paul Crowley
May 22 2013 at 2:03am
I can’t promise it’s relevant to your interests, but Slate Star Codex is one of the most insightful and funniest blogs in the world about philosophy, reason, and argument (among many other things).
FredR
May 22 2013 at 9:49am
Poetry as Socio-Proctology
Best blog on the internet.
drobviousso
May 22 2013 at 1:04pm
The Torch, which is the blog of FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education). Not a page turner, but regular updates from one of the most active education-based civil rights organization out there is worth a subscription if you are in, or care about, higher education.
Peter
May 24 2013 at 1:40am
Johnny come late here and while I subscribe to many above, also enjoy (among others):
Financial Cryptography (https://financialcryptography.com/) – Because I’ve respected the author since back in the cypherpunk days and love his thoughts on matters when he posts (rarely).
Balkinization (http://balkin.blogspot.com/)
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST (http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/)
CounterPunch (http://www.counterpunch.org/) – Yes this is about the opposite of everything you will ever find on the rest of the RRS’s mentioned above BUT every once awhile you find a nugget and it’s nice to see what the other side is saying 🙂
Glenn Greenwald (http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/glenn-greenwald) – Dan Carlin (Hardcore History) turned me on to him. Enjoy him MUCH better than David Brooks
Lawfare (http://www.lawfareblog.com/) – Great legal blog on national security stuff. I would also mentioned Volokh but I assume you already follow them 🙂
Political Calculations (http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/) – Great visuals
Rocketpunk Manifesto (http://www.rocketpunk-manifesto.com/) – Because I’m a hard science scifi geek 🙂
That being said been work rrs feeds (vendor announcements, etc), non appropriate feeds, and news/politics/thinker feeds have WAY TOO MANY (around a 100) and TBH, I end up missing stuff as only dedicate an hour a day to reading them, i.e. quick scans usually unless a headline REALLY grabs me. Thanks folk above as I added another couple 🙂
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