The best Political Philosophy newsletters

Long-form essays on the history of ideas, liberal philosophy, religion and political thought, centered on pluralism and productive disagreement. Readers get richly sourced narratives about figures such as Boyarynya Morozova, Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper and Jürgen Habermas.

Long-form essays on moral philosophy, culture and society, and literary history, with pieces on Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Schulz's Peanuts, and the poet Roy Campbell. The writing combines personal reflection with close reading of ideas and texts.

Dennis Stevens writes long-form essays that apply political philosophy, journalism theory and the history of American constitutionalism to contemporary politics. Readers get careful, citation-backed arguments about fear, executive power, objectivity and the moral frameworks behind political news.

A newsletter on American history, the founding, and constitutional government, written from a conservative perspective critical of the administrative state. Issues mix narrative history, summaries of scholars' arguments, and promotion of the author's own documentary film.

Progress.org republishes essays on land value taxation and Georgist economics from sources such as the Henry George Foundation and Progress and Poverty. Readers get explanations, rebuttals to common objections, and philosophical and historical context on how sharing land value could affect inequality, wages and housing costs.

Essays on power, statecraft and the rise and fall of civilizations, drawing on thinkers like Spengler and Tocqueville and on historical themes. It also includes fictional epistolary series such as The Oligarchs' Lost Letters, with extra content for paid subscribers.

A podcast-style newsletter applying anarchist philosophy to everyday life through mutual aid, usually via interviews and talks. Recent issues cover Thomas Paine's basic income proposal, Tolkien's anarchism, and a book on the nature of money.