SNF Agora, Johns Hopkins SAIS. Monkey Cage. Crooked Timber. But none of this is their fault.
Worth reading
As an aside - some claims in Pascal Boyer’s Minds Make Societies that I’m not at all sure I agree with - but it is an essential book for social scientists to read.
Lots of good stuff in this book.
On the report that Yale is pulling out of the US News and World Report rankings, lots of good stuff on the role these rankings play in Wendy Espeland and Michael Sauder's book, Engines of Anxiety.
Not really what you are looking for but Fareed Zakaria’s book-of-his-dissertation is quite interesting on this.