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[[Best Articles 2021]] and [[Candidates for Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2022]].  See also [[Best Things of 2022]].
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(See also [[Best Articles 2021]] and [[Candidates for Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2022]] and [[Best Things of 2022]])
  
 
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**[https://spectator.org/how-george-floyd-actually-died/ "How George Floyd Actually Died,"]  ''The American Spectator'' (2023). This article say fentanyl had nothing to do with it, and suggests heart failure due to adrenal problems.
 
  
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*[https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-left-kidney "My Left Kidney,"] Astral Codex Ten (2023). On donating a kidney to a stranger. Should we all do it? A very challenging article that reveals my selfishness.
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*[http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/10/whose-nature-which-
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law.html  "Whose Nature? Which Law?"] Edward Feser blog (OCTOBER 12, 2012). About what "natural law" means.
  
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*[https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvards-double-standard-on-free-speech "Harvard’s Double Standard on Free Speech,"] John Tierney, ''City Journal'' (2023).
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*[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/scroll/scrollcodex.html  "Scroll and Codex,"]  
  
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*[https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-problem-of-west-bank-settlements?r=dgrr3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email "The Problem of West Bank Settlements,"] Tomas Pueyo Substack (2023). Very good maps and facts, though I disagree with his views.
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*[https://www.takimag.com/article/are-we-what-we-watch/ "We Are What We Watch,"], Steve Sailer.  
  
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*[https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-repaganisation-of-the-west?utm_campaign=email-post&r=fjeib&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email  "Th Repaganisation of the West The return of Greco-Roman values,"] Ed West, The Wrong Side of History substack (October 20, 2023).  
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*[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2000/10/grim-tales "Grim Tales,"] Kari Gold, ''First Things'' (2000).  
  
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*[https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-industrial-revolution/ "Why No Roman Industrial Revolution?"] blog entry (2022).
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*[https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-left-kidney "My Left Kidney,"] Astral Codex Ten (2023). On donating a kidney to a stranger. Should we all do it? A very challenging article that reveals my selfishness. 
  
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*[https://betonit.substack.com/p/shes-the-one?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "She's the One: Measuring female marriageability,"] BRYAN CAPLAN, ''Bet on It'' blog
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*[https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvards-double-standard-on-free-speech "Harvard’s Double Standard on Free Speech,"] John Tierney, ''City Journal'' (2023).
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*[https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-demons-by-fyodor-dostoevsky?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "REVIEW: Demons, by Fyodor Dostoevsky,"] JOHN PSMITH ''Substack'' (JUL 17, 2023).  
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*[https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-repaganisation-of-the-west?utm_campaign=email-post&r=fjeib&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "The Repaganisation of the West The return of Greco-Roman values,"] Ed West, The Wrong Side of History substack (October 20, 2023).
  
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*[http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/10/whose-nature-which-law.html  "Whose Nature? Which Law?"] Edward Feser blog (OCTOBER 12, 2012). About what "natural law" means.  
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*[https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-problem-of-west-bank-settlements?r=dgrr3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email "The Problem of West Bank Settlements,"] Tomas Pueyo Substack (2023). Very good maps and facts, though I disagree with his views.
  
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*[https://kaijaeger.substack.com/p/why-i-gave-up-my-professorship "Why-i-gave-up-my-professorship,"] Kai Jaeger, ''Substack'' (2023).
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*[https://theworthyhouse.com/2022/02/07/uncivil-society-1989-and-the-implosion-of-the-communist-establishment-stephen-kotkin/ "Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Stephen Kotkin)"] (1922) and [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/05/18/book-review-power-powerless-vaclav-havel/ "The Power of the Powerless (Václav Havel)"], Charles Haywood. Related to each other. 
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*[https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-industrial-revolution/ "Why No Roman Industrial Revolution?"] blog entry (2022).
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*[https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm "Scott and Scurvy,"]  ''Idleworlds.com'' blog (3.06.2010). "But here was a Royal Navy surgeon in 1911 apparently ignorant of what caused the disease, or how to cure it. Somehow a highly-trained group of scientists at the start of the 20th century knew less about scurvy than the average sea captain in Napoleonic times. Scott left a base abundantly stocked with fresh meat, fruits, apples, and lime juice, and headed out on the ice for five months with no protection against scurvy, all the while confident he was not at risk. What happened?"
 
 
   
 
   
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*[https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-demons-by-fyodor-dostoevsky?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "REVIEW: Demons, by Fyodor Dostoevsky,"] JOHN PSMITH ''Substack'' (JUL 17, 2023).
  
  
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*[https://wartranslated.com/pravda-com-ua-interview-ukrainian-colonel-oleh-shevchuk/    "Interview: Ukrainian colonel Oleh,"]  ''Pravda.com.ua'' (1 March 2023). Excellent interview-- very honest, mostly about the nitty gritty of how Ukrainia used heavy artillery in 2022.
 
  
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*[https://collateralglobal.org/article/lockdown-harms-and-the-silence-of-economists/ Economists and Covid], Jay Bhattacharya.
 
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*[https://bigserge.substack.com/p/soviet-operational-art-troubled-beginnings Soviet  army ], ''Big Serge Substack'' (2023).
 
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*[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/scroll/scrollcodex.html Books and Scrolls,"]
 
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*[https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/december-january-2023/elon-musk-worse-than-hitler/ "elon-musk-worse-than-hitler,"] Titania McGrath, ''The Critic'' (2023).
 
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*[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2000/10/grim-tales "Grim Tales,"] Kari Gold, ''First Things'' (2000).
 
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*[https://edwest.substack.com/p/the-british-colonial-mindset  "The British Colonial Mindset,"] Ed West, ''Substack'' (2023).
 
  
 
*[https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/10-myths-told-by-covid-experts-now-debunked/ "10-myths-told-by-covid-experts-now-debunked/"] ''NY Post'' (2023).  
 
*[https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/10-myths-told-by-covid-experts-now-debunked/ "10-myths-told-by-covid-experts-now-debunked/"] ''NY Post'' (2023).  
  
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*[https://martincitytelegraph.com/2020/01/19/who-was-the-real-sarah-rector-the-richest-black-girl-in-america/ "WHO WAS THE REAL SARAH RECTOR, “THE RICHEST BLACK GIRL IN AMERICA?”"]  ''Martin City Telegraph'' (January 19, 2020).
 
  
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*[https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/louisville-bank-killers-manifesto-details-mental-illness-and-anti-gun-motive-deadly"Louisville bank killer's manifesto details mental illness, anti-gun motive for deadly shooting: The killer worked at the Old National Bank where the incident took place."] "There were three main points in the manifesto, which included how easy it was to purchase a gun, to highlight the mental health crisis in the U.S. and to commit suicide, according to the Daily Mail."
 
  
 
*[https://rootsofprogress.org/isambard-brunel-on-engineering-standards "The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements: A letter of note from Isambard K. Brunel, civil engineer,"] Jason Crawford blog. (April 21, 2023). A good article on the danger of regulation. Good for my book. If people follow rules, they will do so blindly, so they'll still be dangerous, plus they will block innovation.  
 
*[https://rootsofprogress.org/isambard-brunel-on-engineering-standards "The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements: A letter of note from Isambard K. Brunel, civil engineer,"] Jason Crawford blog. (April 21, 2023). A good article on the danger of regulation. Good for my book. If people follow rules, they will do so blindly, so they'll still be dangerous, plus they will block innovation.  
  
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*[https://lithub.com/why-the-culture-of-the-so-called-great-books-is-hostile-to-trans-people/ "Why the Culture of the So-Called Great Books is Hostile to Trans People:  Naomi Kanakia on the Intellectual Cult of the Transphobic Rationalist,"]
 
  
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*[https://www.takimag.com/article/are-we-what-we-watch/ "Fiddling America Away,"] Victor Hanson (2023).  
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*[https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/10/fiddling-america-away/ "Fiddling America Away,"] Victor Hanson (2023).  
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*[https://www.takimag.com/article/are-we-what-we-watch/ "We Are What We Watch,"], Steve Sailer.
 
  
 
*[https://americanreformer.org/2023/04/the-impossible-bronze-age-mindset/#fn-6655-1 "The Impossible Bronze Age Mindset,"] American Reformer (2023).
 
*[https://americanreformer.org/2023/04/the-impossible-bronze-age-mindset/#fn-6655-1 "The Impossible Bronze Age Mindset,"] American Reformer (2023).
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* [https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/thinner-on-paper "Thinner on Paper,"] Peter Hitchens on being fat and on the old newspaper business in London (2022).  
 
* [https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/thinner-on-paper "Thinner on Paper,"] Peter Hitchens on being fat and on the old newspaper business in London (2022).  
  
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*[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/multiple-concussions-may-have-sped-hemingways-demise-psychiatrist-argues-180963021/  "/multiple-concussions-may-have-sped-hemingways-demise-psychiatrist-argues,"] ''Smithsonian'' (2017).
 
  
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*[https://quillette.com/2023/04/05/why-the-english-department-died/ "why-the-english-department-died"] ''QUillette'' (2023).
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*[https://quillette.com/2023/04/05/why-the-english-department-died/ "Why-the-english-department-died"] ''QUillette'' (2023).
  
 
*[https://rufo.substack.com/p/the-great-feminization-of-the-american?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "The Great Feminization of the American University:A response to Heather Mac Donald’s provocative new essay on the “mass nervous breakdown on campus,”]  Christopher F. Rufo
 
*[https://rufo.substack.com/p/the-great-feminization-of-the-american?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "The Great Feminization of the American University:A response to Heather Mac Donald’s provocative new essay on the “mass nervous breakdown on campus,”]  Christopher F. Rufo
  
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*[https://www.parentdata.org/p/why-i-look-at-data-differently?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "Why I Look at Data Differently:A lesson on residual confounding"] by Emily Oster. Describes a study on breastfeeding and IQ which shows how the correlation shrinks and vanishes moving from no control variables to demographics to demographics and parental IQ to looking just at siblings.
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*[https://www.newsweek.com/who-do-you-trust-opinion-1787783 "W.H.O. Do You Trust?"] Scott Atlas on WHO and on the Fauci-Collins conspiracy to hide the origins of covid.
 
*[https://www.newsweek.com/who-do-you-trust-opinion-1787783 "W.H.O. Do You Trust?"] Scott Atlas on WHO and on the Fauci-Collins conspiracy to hide the origins of covid.
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*[https://compactmag.com/article/how-the-deep-state-took-down-nixon how-the-deep-state-took-down-nixon ] (2023).
 
*[https://compactmag.com/article/how-the-deep-state-took-down-nixon how-the-deep-state-took-down-nixon ] (2023).
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*[https://kaijaeger.substack.com/p/why-i-gave-up-my-professorship "Why-i-gave-up-my-professorship,"] Kai Jaeger, ''Substack'' (2023).
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*[https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm "Scott and Scurvy,"]  ''Idleworlds.com'' blog (3.06.2010). "But here was a Royal Navy surgeon in 1911 apparently ignorant of what caused the disease, or how to cure it. Somehow a highly-trained group of scientists at the start of the 20th century knew less about scurvy than the average sea captain in Napoleonic times. Scott left a base abundantly stocked with fresh meat, fruits, apples, and lime juice, and headed out on the ice for five months with no protection against scurvy, all the while confident he was not at risk. What happened?"
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*[https://wartranslated.com/pravda-com-ua-interview-ukrainian-colonel-oleh-shevchuk/    "Interview: Ukrainian colonel Oleh,"]  ''Pravda.com.ua'' (1 March 2023). Excellent interview-- very honest, mostly about the nitty gritty of how Ukraine used heavy artillery in 2022.
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*[https://bigserge.substack.com/p/soviet-operational-art-troubled-beginnings Soviet  army ], ''Big Serge Substack'' (2023).
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*[https://spectator.org/how-george-floyd-actually-died/ "How George Floyd Actually Died,"]  ''The American Spectator'' (2023). This article say fentanyl had nothing to do with it, and suggests heart failure due to adrenal problems.
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*[https://betonit.substack.com/p/shes-the-one?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "She's the One: Measuring female marriageability,"] BRYAN CAPLAN, ''Bet on It'' blog (JUL 31, 2023)
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*[https://theworthyhouse.com/2022/02/07/uncivil-society-1989-and-the-implosion-of-the-communist-establishment-stephen-kotkin/ "Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Stephen Kotkin)"] (1922) and [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/05/18/book-review-power-powerless-vaclav-havel/ "The Power of the Powerless (Václav Havel)"], Charles Haywood. Related to each other.
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*[https://collateralglobal.org/article/lockdown-harms-and-the-silence-of-economists/ Economists and Covid], Jay Bhattacharya.
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*[https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/december-january-2023/elon-musk-worse-than-hitler/ "elon-musk-worse-than-hitler,"] Titania McGrath, ''The Critic'' (2023).
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*[https://edwest.substack.com/p/the-british-colonial-mindset  "The British Colonial Mindset,"] Ed West, ''Substack'' (2023).
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*[https://martincitytelegraph.com/2020/01/19/who-was-the-real-sarah-rector-the-richest-black-girl-in-america/ "WHO WAS THE REAL SARAH RECTOR, “THE RICHEST BLACK GIRL IN AMERICA?”"]  ''Martin City Telegraph'' (January 19, 2020).
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*[https://lithub.com/why-the-culture-of-the-so-called-great-books-is-hostile-to-trans-people/ "Why the Culture of the So-Called Great Books is Hostile to Trans People:  Naomi Kanakia on the Intellectual Cult of the Transphobic Rationalist."]
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*[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/multiple-concussions-may-have-sped-hemingways-demise-psychiatrist-argues-180963021/  "/multiple-concussions-may-have-sped-hemingways-demise-psychiatrist-argues,"] ''Smithsonian'' (2017).
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*[https://www.parentdata.org/p/why-i-look-at-data-differently?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "Why I Look at Data Differently:A lesson on residual confounding"] by Emily Oster. Describes a study on breastfeeding and IQ which shows how the correlation shrinks and vanishes moving from no control variables to demographics to demographics and parental IQ to looking just at siblings.

Revision as of 13:45, 22 November 2023


(See also Best Articles 2021 and Candidates for Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2022 and Best Things of 2022)

This will contain candidates for good articles.


law.html "Whose Nature? Which Law?"] Edward Feser blog (OCTOBER 12, 2012). About what "natural law" means.

  • "My Left Kidney," Astral Codex Ten (2023). On donating a kidney to a stranger. Should we all do it? A very challenging article that reveals my selfishness.







  • "Thinner on Paper," Peter Hitchens on being fat and on the old newspaper business in London (2022).





  • "Scott and Scurvy," Idleworlds.com blog (3.06.2010). "But here was a Royal Navy surgeon in 1911 apparently ignorant of what caused the disease, or how to cure it. Somehow a highly-trained group of scientists at the start of the 20th century knew less about scurvy than the average sea captain in Napoleonic times. Scott left a base abundantly stocked with fresh meat, fruits, apples, and lime juice, and headed out on the ice for five months with no protection against scurvy, all the while confident he was not at risk. What happened?"


ALSO RAN:

  • "How George Floyd Actually Died," The American Spectator (2023). This article say fentanyl had nothing to do with it, and suggests heart failure due to adrenal problems.



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