Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2024

• Rob Long, "Prestige on a Car Window Sticker," Rob’s Free For Now Newsletter (January 29, 2024).

"I could quickly discover, years ago, which of my English friends were secret aristocrats. I would simply ask them what they thought about the accidental death of Diana, Princess of Wales. My middle class English pals would say something along the lines of, “It was a tragedy. She was indeed the ‘people’s princess.’” But my upper class friends would say something more like, “Good Lord, just as well she’s dead. Mad as a brush.”

• Littlejohn and Castaldo discussion on why Protestants convert to Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicim, a transcript from an Aaron Renn podcast. Extremely good. Lots of points.

• The OSS sabotage field manual on disrupting organizations] by things like making meetings go too long and not decide anything.

• Ryan Burge, "Cultural Evangelical: A State Level Analysis| Where Do Non-Attending Evangelicals Live?" Substack (JAN 29, 2024).

"In 2008, about one in five Americans were religiously active evangelicals. That percentage has now dropped to 13%. For comparison, about 12% of Americans identify as atheist or agnostic. Approximately 8% of all U.S. adults are white evangelicals attending church every week. It's sort of amazing that a certain segment of the population fears the rise of a theocracy from this group of Americans, despite being only 8% of the population. This is a decline from 16% when Barack Obama was elected in 2008. It wouldn't be surprising if there are more atheists than weekly attending white evangelicals in the next 5-10 years."

• "My Correct Views on Everything", Leszek Kolakowski (1974).

• CS Lewis speech to seminarians

• On Why There Is No Milton Friedman Today: Sui Generis, Sui Temporis, ECON JOURNAL WATCH 10(2) (May 2013) 197-204 Steven G. Medema. Full of insights-- on Galbraith too, for example.

Top Ten THigns:

*Saturday Night Live on the 3 Presidents' Testimony, very very good.

• A short video of a map on the Korean War. Great!