Among other print publications and a slew of books in his collection, this author hardly keeps up with the following web-based readings (rss feeds): Agoraphilia, Asian Times (Platonic regard for opponents), Atlantic Monthly, Bosphorous Reflections, Buffalo Lake-Effect Philosophy, Cato Institute, Council on Foreign Relations, Heritage Foundation, Brookings Institute, Edge, Knowledge Problem, Language Log, Financial Times, Center for Inquiry, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Leiter’s Philosophy and Law Reports, Library of Economics and Liberty, Marginal Revolution, Mises Economics, Prospect Magazine, Public Reason, Reason Magazine, Slate, ScienceDaily, Philosophers Anonymous, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Economist, New Yorker, Vanity Fair.
He likes, to different degrees, the following thinkers and do-ers, in no appreciable order, dead or alive: Christopher Hitchens, Charles Krauthammer, George Will, Niall Ferguson, Stephen Hawking, Achille Varzi, Barry Smith, Thomas P.M. Barnett, David Horowitz, Daniel Dennett, Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Dawkins, David Brooks, Lysander Spooner, Randy Barnett, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Baruch Spinoza, Ludwig Wittgenstein, AJ Ayer, Confucius, Carlos Castaneda, David Hume, Karl Popper, Plato, Aristotle, Blaise Pascal, Gottfried Leibniz, Alexis de Tocqueville, Carl Jung, Thucydides, Marcus Aurelius, JL Austin, Adam Smith, Michel de Montaigne, Ayn Rand, JS Mill, John Locke, Soren Kierkegaard, Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Martin Heidegger, Robert Nozick, CS Peirce. Many more, surely, but they make fewer appearances in his readings.