Who do you always read and respect most, even when you disagree? My list:

Thomas Friedman
David Brooks
Leonard Pitts
Bret Stephens
Gail Collins
Peggy Noonan
Krugman
Kristof


Jf

I think Friedman and Krugman are overrated.


Love Noonan but it could be selection bias. Since I don’t subscribe to the journal I only see the ones that go viral.

Andrew Sullivan has been a favorite for 20 years. Ross Douthat is often insightful.

Tyler Cowen is more interesting about a wider variety of topics than anyone else regularly writing in mainstream outlets today. But I’ll take his blog over his Bloomberg column any day.

Matt Levine but he’s really focused on markets

While I have read pieces from everyone one cited by JF and Jon except Tyler Cowen, there is no columnist whose writing I regularly follow or make it a point to read.

A couple of names I would add are Fareed Zakaria on foreign affairs, and Dana Milbank just because he often drench more sarcastic comedy into his writing among “serious” columnists.

I suppose I can also mention George Will; he seems to have been around forever and likes to extrapolate a universe from an obscure piece of historical fairy cake.

Oh, Megan McArdle, because she applies logic on social issues more coldly than others, and because of, well, Steve Miller.

I like Will and McArdle too.