Third Party Watch is a grassroots online journal that has covered American third party and independent candidates since 2005, particularly those affiliated with the Libertarian Party or the wider liberty movement. Its content provides analysis and commentary on third party politics and seeks to offer a snapshot of the inner workings of these organizations. The site is hosted by the Libertarian Party Institute and owned and operated by Professor George Phillies.
Meet the Staff
- George Phillies, D.Sc., Editor
George Phillies is a full-time writer and retired physics professor. He lives in Worcester, Massachusetts with the world’s largest board wargame collection, large technical and science fiction libraries, and extensive flower gardens. His Libertarian books include four technical studies of Libertarian politics: Surely We Can Do Better, Libertarian Renaissance, Funding Liberty, and Stand up for Liberty.
Phillies has been on the ballot for Federal Office twice. For a decade he served as an officer of the Libertarian Association of Massachusetts, at different times as Treasurer and as Chair. He was co-founder of the Pioneer Valley Libertarian Association, Massachusetts’ oldest continuously-existing libertarian political organization. For close to two decades, he edited the PVLA’s monthly magazines, as seen on the web site CMLC.org.
Phillies is President of the National Fantasy Fan Federation, the world’s oldest national SF club, and President of AHIKS, the world’s oldest and largest board wargaming society. He edits four SF magazines, namely Tightbeam (reviews, all genres), The National Fantasy Fan (club news zine), The N3F Review of Books Incorporating Prose Bono, and A Gentle Stroll.
Phillies has to his credit ten SF novels, namely This Shining Sea (tween superheroine), Minutegirls (politics and giant space battles), The One World (Amazon swords against Conquistador matchlocks), Mistress of the Waves (economics), Against Three Lands (not-quite-medieval Japan against not-quite-Europeans), The Girl Who Saved The World (tween superheroine), Airy Castles All Ablaze (more of the tween superheroine), Stand Against the Light (tween superheroine), Of Breaking Waves (tween superheroine), and Practical Exercise (a magical research university), five textbooks on board game design, a statistical mechanics textbook, a freshman mechanics book (Physics One), the definitive monograph on polymer solution dynamics, four books on Libertarian political history and strategy, and more than 170 scientific research papers, most on light scattering spectroscopy and polymer dynamics.