Libertarianism is often associated with the discipline of economics, but here at the consortium we try to bring a variety of libertarian-ish views to the table. Here are a few political science blogs that I frequent:
- Crooked Timber. This blog is largely considered to be the standard-bearer for political science blogs. Recommended.
- Pileus blog. This is the polisci blog with the hardest libertarian slant, although I still haven’t found any anarchocapitalists lurking about.
- Mischiefs of Faction. This is a new blog and I really like what I’ve read so far.
- Duck of Minerva. International relations blog. IR is not explicitly associated with political science, of course, but in traditional undergraduate programs it often falls under the polisci rubric.
- The Monkey Cage. “Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.” – H.L. Mencken.
- The Reality-Based Community. A humble blog composed of mostly political scientists, but it has some economists and lawyers on board as well.
Political science, of course, is one of the many disciplines that is fairly hostile to libertarianism, although most political scientists I’ve studied under have still been liberals. This is in contradiction to other scholarly disciplines like anthropology and sociology – as well as all of the humanities disciplines – which still embrace classical and post-Marxist arguments in their undergraduate programs.
There are a ton of blogs around the web that are manned by consortiums of political scientists, but these six can be counted on to be fairly balanced and well thought-out most of the time. I learn from them every time I visit.