FeedSpot, a website aggregator, has released its updated list of the “60 Best Libertarian Blogs and Websites in 2025.”
The Libertarian Futurist Society and its Prometheus Awards blog, launched just six years ago, is ranked 39th on the FeedSpot list, which ranks 399 libertarian websites.
That’s relatively high up on the list, one of many ranked by Feedspot, an online platform that aggregates and organizes content from a wide variety of websites on many different subjects and themes.
THE BREADTH OF THE MOVEMENT
Feedspot, a personalized content reader, is designed to make it easy for users to keep up with favorite sources by allowing users to read and share news, articles and blog posts in one place.
Feedspot includes convenient web links to each ranked blog, as well as descriptions of each organization’s focus and goals. Several of the most interesting and relevant libertarian blogs/websites are linked and described below.
Overall, Feedspot’s rankings demonstrate the breadth, depth and immense variety of the libertarian movement, which has developed, evolved and survives even in these troubled and increasingly illiberal times.
The Libertarian Futurist Society’s ranking within the top 10 percent of libertarian websites and blogs is pretty respectable, I think, especially given our limited resources and the specialized focus of the LFS website and Prometheus blog on fantastical fiction that explores and illuminates the value of liberty and the dangers of tyranny.
One ongoing challenge for the LFS, in attracting attention and support, can be viewed as a sort of double whammy: Libertarians and other freedom-loving individuals make up only a small subset of SF/fantasy fans, while simultaneously SF/fantasy fans only comprise a small percentage of libertarians. Thus, it’s harder to identify and reach out to that small group of people who identify with both areas of interest: imaginative literature and the ideals of liberty.
Our ranking also seems respectable, given our limited resources compared to many other heavy hitters on the list – think tanks, organizations that often have sizable budgets and full-time staff, in some cases spending more than a million dollars annually in programs and outreach.
HOW OUR RANKING COMPARES
For instance, the LFS/Prometheus Awards blog is ranked above many older and far larger pro-freedom organizations, such as the Institute for Humane Studies and the Mises Institute.
It’s not ranked that far below The Advocates for Self-Government (at #34), another nonprofit group that’s roughly as old as the LFS but has a much broader focus on educating the public about the benefits of self-government. The Advocates provides educational resources to teachers and students, and may be best known for its implementation of the Nolan Chart and the World’s Smallest Political Quiz, which help people identify what quadrant of political viewpoints they match best (Libertarian, Progressive, Conservative, Authoritarian and Moderate.)
Among the higher-ranked organizations are many well-funded think tanks – including The Libertarian Institute (#27), Competitive Enterprise Institute Blog (#26), the Independent Institute (#22), and the Future of Freedom Foundation (#18).
OTHER IMPORTANT AND ILLUMINATING WEBSITES
One of the websites that the general public, as well as LFS members, should find most interesting and illuminating to visit is Libertarianism (#15), at https://www.libertarianism.org).
This blog is the Cato Institute’s invaluable treasury of resources about the theory and history of liberty. It offers original essays and classic reprints by great classical liberals and libertarians from previous centuries as well as articles from modern-day thinkers, book reviews and a libertarian encyclopedia.
Reason magazine and its blog are ranked at #8, but probably should be ranked higher, at least in terms of topnotch commentary, relevant articles and investigative reports.
After all, Reason is the leading libertarian magazine, published for more than half a century, and is published by the Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank that in addition offers detailed policy analysis of many U.S. government programs and policies and was a pioneer in conceiving the concept of privatization as a way to improve services while rolling back government.
So what blogs and organizations are ranked highest?
The top five blogs are Liberty International (#4), Students for Liberty North America (#3), Law & Liberty (#2) and the Cato Institute, the largest libertarian think tank, at No. 1.
Those top rankings are no surprise to anyone familiar with the history and evolution of the libertarian movement. But the list includes some names and links that will be new even those libertarians who’ve been around (like me) since the 1970s and are pretty familiar with the leading publications, think tanks and other organizations.
OTHER TOP BLOGGERS
The web page also separately lists, without rankings, the “top bloggers, editors and contributors covering Libertarians.”
That list of 528 “Libertarian Bloggers” includes many widely recognized writers, editors and contributing editors at Reason.com, including Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason editor in chief, and book editor Jesse Walker, who have participated in a Prometheus Awards-related panel discussion on “SF, Liberty, Alternative Publishing Trends and the Prometheus Awards” following the 2021 Prometheus Awards ceremony.
For those interested in exploring other lists, the Feedspot website also offers links to the Best 100 Political Blogs, Best 30 Anarchist Blogs, Best 100 Liberal Political Blogs and Best 80 Conservative Blogs.
ABOUT THE LFS AND PROMETHEUS AWARDS
* Join us! To help sustain the Prometheus Awards and support a cultural and literary strategy to appreciate and honor freedom-loving fiction, join the Libertarian Futurist Society, a non-profit all-volunteer association of freedom-loving sf/fantasy fans.
Libertarian futurists understand that culture matters. We believe that literature and the arts can be vital in envisioning a freer and better future.
In some ways, culture can be even more influential and powerful than politics in the long run, by imagining better visions of the future incorporating peace, prosperity, progress, tolerance, justice, positive social change, and mutual respect for each other’s rights, human dignity, individuality and peaceful choices.
* Prometheus winners: For a full list of Prometheus winners, finalists and nominees – including in the annual Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame) categories and occasional Special Awards – visit the enhanced Prometheus Awards page on the LFS website. This page includes convenient links to all published essay-reviews in our Appreciation series explaining why each of more than 100 past winners since 1979 fits the awards’ distinctive dual focus on both quality and liberty.
* Watch videos of past Prometheus Awards ceremonies, Libertarian Futurist Society panel discussions with noted sf authors and leading libertarian writers, and other LFS programs on the Prometheus Blog’s Video page.
* Read “The Libertarian History of Science Fiction,” an essay in the international magazine Quillette that favorably highlights the Prometheus Awards, the Libertarian Futurist Society and the significant element of libertarian sf/fantasy in the evolution of the modern genre.
* Check out the Libertarian Futurist Society’s Facebook page for comments, updates and links to the latest Prometheus Blog posts.
Libertarian science fiction has been around as a recognized subgenre since The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress came out in 1966—and was generally acclaimed as one of Heinlein’s best novels. Those were back in the days when science fiction readers prized “variant thought” stories generally, not just stories that endorse currently trendy academic social theories.
Wonderful news and well deserved! Congratulations, Michael and all our contributors… this is an amazing accomplishment. Just look at this stellar list – and there you are!
That’s a good point about the audience size: I would not have suspected an organization to have existed that overlaps SF and liberty. In fact, I often find many people in the SF world (both authors and readers) to be very totalitarian in their views of how society should be run (though they see it as simply being charitable with other people’s money, time and property).