Most blogs and blog-like presences on the Internet include links to other blogs, lists which stretch out into the hundreds. No one reads through them except for other bloggers, hoping to find themselves connected. I’ll spare you the boredom and me the work that’s involved with that kind of list.I will recommend a few web sites, however. These are places where thoughtful, intelligent, articulate, and experienced people publish their work. At any one of them, you’ll discover something new, something important, something interesting.
- At War in Context, Paul Woodward monitors and comments on the truly significant matters of our time.
- Several different people post at Obsidian Wings; most of them are pretty good, but hilzoy is the best.
- The McClatchy newspapers maintain a separate page with articles and brief commentary by their Military Affairs correspondent Joe Galloway.
- The Independent has a separate page where they post articles by Middle-East correspondent Robert Fisk.
- The New York Review maintains an archive of articles by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Frances Fitzgerald.
- Tom Englehardt, writer and editor at The Nation Institute, edits and occasionally writes articles at TomDispatch.
- Free-lance reporter Helena Cobban has a page of her Christian Science Monitor articles and one of her Boston Review articles.
- Scott Horton, lawyer and human rights activist, writes the “No Comment” series at Harper’s Magazine.
- Paul Krugman writes a column for The New York Times on Mondays and Fridays.
- Frank Rich writes a column for The New York Times every Sunday.
There are more, and I’ll add them as they occur to me, and as I have time.
