List of political authors

This is a list of authors of writings on political subjects.

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A–M

• Gheorghe Alexandrescu (1912–2005)
• Andrej Amalrik (1938–1980)
• Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940)
• Aristotle (384 BC–322 BC)
• Emily Rose Bleby (1849–1917)
• David Bollier (living)
• Harry Browne (1933–2006)
• William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–2008)
• Andrzej Ciesielski
• Noam Chomsky (born 1928)
• Ann Coulter (born 1961)
• Andy Croft (born 1956)
• Elizabeth Drew (born 1935)
• Dinesh D'Souza (born 1960)
• Thomas R. Dye (born 1935)
• Koenraad Elst (born 1959)
• Filip Erceg (born 1979)
• David D. Friedman (born 1945)
• David Gauthier (1932–2023)
• Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003)
• Jürgen Habermas (born 1929)
• Chaudhry Afzal Haq (1891–1942)
• Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803)
• Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
• Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
• Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
• Jane Jacobs (1916–2006)
• Alireza Jafarzadeh
• Michael Johns (born 1964)
• Agha Shorish Kashmiri (1917–1975)
• Frances Moore Lappé (born 1944)
• Lawrence Lessig (born 1961)
• John Locke (1632–1704)
• Józef Mackiewicz (1902–1985)
• Karl Marx (1818–1883)
• Richard Maybury (born 1946)
• David McCullough (1933–2022)
• John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
• Janbaz Mirza
• Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973)

N–Z

• Jan Narveson (born 1936)
• George Orwell (1903–1950)
• Greg Palast (born 1952)
• Plato (c. 427 BC –c. 347 BC)
• Carleton Putnam (1901–1998)
• Roberto Quaglia (born 1962)
• John Rawls (1921–2002)
• Jeremy Rifkin (born 1946)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
• Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980)
• Henriette Sauret (1890–1976)
• Roger Scruton (1944–2020)
• Amartya Sen (born 1933)
• Vandana Shiva (born 1952)
• Arun Shourie (born 1941)
• Charles E. Silberman (1925–2011)
• Guy Smith (born 1957)
• Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019)
• Lysander Spooner (1808–1887)
• Ram Swarup (1920–1998)
• George Thayer (1933–1973)
• Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005)
• Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
• Berhanu Zerihun (1933/4–1987)
• Slavoj Žižek (born 1949)
• Alexander Hamilton (1755–1805)

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