The Top 30 Libertarian Blogs

Here is a list of the 30 most influential liberty-oriented blogs. The list is sorted on the second column, which is the Alexa 3-month average reach per million users. The third column is the Technorati count of the number of blogs that link in. The more influential a blog is, the less generally liberty-oriented it has to be to make the list. Reynolds, Sullivan, and Becker/Posner aren't very self-consciously libertarian, but their influence is vast enough to compensate. Antiwar.com is more singleissuetarian than libertarian, and the site mentions Chomsky over 500 times, but its libertarian roots are undeniable. For EconLog, I attempt to break out the blog's Alexa reach from the reach of EconLib as a whole.

Glenn Reynolds: Instapundit	306	6945	"The Blogfather" is a liberventionist who ignores the LP as "trivial" and "a net negative"
Raimondo & Garris: antiwar.com	244	3005	2 Rothbardians have flitted among 4 parties, backing Buchanan 2000 & Nader 2004
Andrew Sullivan: The Daily Dish	205	3106	Time hired the gay Catholic New Republic ex-editor who coined "South Park Republican"
Lew Rockwell	198	2950	Culturally conservative anarcho-capitalist paleolibertarians who disdain the LP
Reason	120	1280	60K-circulation techno-optimistic libertarian magazine bemused by the LP
Neil Boortz	112	1148	The libertarian-leaning conservative talk radio personality
Volokh Conspiracy	84	2705	Law school profs who say the LP makes major parties less libertarian at the margin
Marginal Revolution	68	1606	Brilliant GMU economists/philosophers/aesthetes ignore the LP
Homeland Stupidity	56	1073	A libertarian look at technology and privacy
Hammer of Truth	34	721	Most important LP-friendly blog; Stephen Gordon is now LP Comm Director
Jane Galt: Asymmetrical Information	31	800	Libertarianish economics-literate journalism; McArdle hired away by The Economist
Daniel Drezner	28	1101	Tufts PoliSci prof gets 58/160 on the libertarian purity test
Radley Balko: The Agitator	23	797	Cato Institute policy analyst says "the LP is bad for libertarianism"
Vodkapundit	20	1021	Liberventionist who criticizes "doctrinaire libertarianism"
Samizdata	20	1006	Broad US/UK/Australian perspective from liberventionists who call the LP "turgid"
Jon Henke et al: QandO	19	1016	Interventionist neolibertarian Republicans who have given up on the LP
Strike the Root	19	245	"A libertarian / market anarchist perspective" that says the LP isn't radical enough
EconLog	13?	459	2 brilliant economists, including anarcho-capitalist theorist Bryan Caplan
Becker-Posner Blog	10	2040	Chicago's economics Nobel laureate and brilliant federal appellate judge
Catallarchy	10	455	Founding liberventionist Brian Doss says the LP's job is to discipline the GOP
Virginia Postrel: Dynamist	9	539	Former Reason editor, NY Times columnist, and Future And Its Enemies author
Cato At Liberty	7	521	Official Cato Institute blog
Cafe Hayek	7	460	2 more brilliant GMU economists who focus on ideas, not politics
Vox Populi	6	309	"the Christian Libertarian commentator from WorldNetDaily"
Technology Liberation Front	5	279	Libertarian perspectives on technology
Rational Review	4	79	Tom Knapp's web journal seeks a radical LP for this "revolutionary era"
Cato Unbound	3	387	Monthly big-idea essay and reaction essays by big thinkers
Positive Liberty	2	226	Intelligent libertarians embarrassed by the LP's anarchist silliness
Kn@ppster	2	208	ZAPsolutist anarchist Knapp is hedging his LP bet with a new protest party
Coyote Blog	2	203	Capitalist libertarian thinks the LP is too kooky
Will Wilkinson: Fly Bottle	2	198	Ex-GMU Cato Institute policy analyst
Free Liberal	2	87	"non-partisan left-libertarian journal of politics and economics"
David Friedman: Ideas	1	180	Milton Friedman's son is the world's leading consequentialist anarcholibertarian theorist