Best Articles Read in 2026

See also Best Things of 2025 and Best Things of 2026 and Best Articles Read in 2025.

• "The Necessity of Grinding Through Concrete Examples Before Jumping Up a Level of Abstraction"

(2026)

• A compilation of woke outrages, by Jussim I think.

• "Regression To A Mean Fallacies," Gwern.net

• The Great British Tea Heist" Smithsonian magazine.

• "The Closure of the Internet: The Most Important Social Phenomenon of the Late 2010s," Arctotherium Substack (2026).

• "The Racial Crossroads," Helen Andrews, Compact (2026)

• "Data Centers Are Not the Villain," Substack (2026).

• "Unyoke the Sciences from the Humanities| Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?", MIT Uncancelled (2026).

• "The scourge of ‘lame news’|Journalists as narrative curators." Ed West, Substack (2026).

• "a-monster-and-his-suck-ups " on Castro.

• X thread on marc andreesen on AI tips (2026).
• "A Non-Conformist's Guide to Success in a Conformist World" Bryan Caplan.

• "Why We Lost Trust," Justin Hart (2026). How the public health experts got every single thing wrong about covid, very well organized and cited.

• "When Slavs Rush in" (2026)

The Illyrian city of Sirmium, one of the four capitals of the Empire in the late third century Tetrarchy and birthplace of ten Roman Emperors, is today the modest and obscure Serbian town of Sremska Mitrovica, population 74,000.

• "Are Men Smarter than Women?" Steve Sailer (2026).

• "The State of Canada," JOhn Carter (2026).

• "Here's What Conservative Institutional Capture Looks Like," Aaron Renn (2024).

• "Orbán's War: A dispatch from the Hungarian capital," Christoph Rufo (2023).