by Tom Wynter

Created on: June 18, 2010

The blogoshpere is packed with millions of blogs from serious economic policy distribution centres to cat fanciers to 14 year olds' ranting about the woes of been a 14 year old. To navigate through the exorbitant amounts of junk i like to stick to a small number of quality blogs. My favourite 3 blogs are the following, i'll detail some of their key points and why i prefer them to any others.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-f undamentalist

THE SCIENTIFIC FUNDAMENTALIST
This blog is run by London School of Economics evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa. He is pre-eminent in the field of evolutionary biology applying thorough statistical analysis to everyday situation, particularly focussing on why people are liberal/conservative, religious/atheistic, or even the likelihood of procreating a particular gender. Of note is his hypothesis (and subsequent book) that beautiful people have more female babies. While some of his analysis on the gender roles of women and the continuity and change apparent being a touch extreme and more than a little outrageous at times, it is presented with detailed analysis and comes off light-hearted and often humorous.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/

THE CONSCIENCE OF A LIBERAL
Krugman is an intellectual heavyweight also out of the London School of Economics. His blog is much more dry but is vital to keeping up-to-date on issues regarding the economy especially post(or current)-global financial crisis. This blog makes economics easy and accessible by appropriating difficult macroeconomic concepts and applying them to daily examples using specific industries and countries to delineate the root causes, arguments, and responses to crises and the mobility of capital.

http://whyleftisright.blogspot.com/

WHY LEFT IS RIGHT
This blog is written by an Australian student doing a Masters of International Studies. It has an international focus, however, and with a liberal angle aims to highlight the causal factors leading to the rise of Conservatism in the US and throughout the world. The blog further covers issues relating to religion as an entity and further as a consequence or cause of conservatism particularly in the post-1980s US governmental system. Further issues that have become standard to disputes between Conservatives and Liberals such as Same-Sex marriage rights, corporate taxation, Conservapedia (very funny), and Censorship.

The best way to know which one is right for you is to READ them! it won't take you long to figure out if they're for you or not. :)

LINKS

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-f undamentalist
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
http://whyleftisright.blogspot.com/

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