Candidates for Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2022
1. "A Selection of Maps We Weren’t Taught in School," NatureWorldToday (2022).
- 4. Most Common Surnames in Europe. 8. 2% of All of the Australian Population Live Within This Region. 15. National IQ Scores.
2. Nice Moms and Nasty Nerds, Steve Sailer, Taki's Magazine (October 12, 2022). On the transwars.
- "The so-far triumphant transgender movement is a political coalition that includes two polar opposite sets of allies who are so radically different in their thought styles that they can’t even begin to understand each other: naive nice moms and smart but not-at-all nice nerdy ex-men.... Few of the nice white ladies who make up much of the political support for the fad of surgically altering moody teens have even noticed that a high percentage of the best-known male-to-female trans celebrities are toxically masculine jerks. The ladies presume instead that they must be bullied victims in need of maternal nurturing and protection from the cruel world because that’s who they want them to be."
3. "I will never accept ‘Kyiv’ For that matter, I still haven’t given up on Bombay, Peking or Burma," Ed West, Substack (2022).
4. "Sex and the Academy: The inclusion of women in higher education is a great achievement for Western liberal societies. How is this changing academic culture?" Cory Clark and Bo Winegard,Quillette (8 Oct 2022). Male vs. female attitudes and Truth vs. Morality as goals of universities. After a long discussion of survey data on male vs. female answers to various questions in various samples, they say"
- "The overall theme of these differences is that men are more committed than women to the pursuit of truth as the raison d’être of science, while women are more committed to various moral goals, such as equity, inclusion, and the protection of vulnerable groups. Consequently, men are more tolerant of controversial and potentially offensive scientific findings being pursued, disseminated, and discussed, and women are more willing to obstruct or suppress science perceived to be potentially harmful or offensive. Put more simply, men are relatively more interested in advancing what is empirically correct, and women are relatively more interested in advancing what is morally desirable."
5. "When meta-analysis goes wrong: A recent study on homeopathy shows reminds us that meta-analysis - like any study - can look superficially solid yet still produce nonsense", Stuart Ritchie, Substack (2022).
6. :The Two Wings of Postmodernism...," WOKAL DISTANCE, Substack (9/21/2022).
7. "When Buddhism Goes Bad| How My Mindfulness Practice Led Me To Meltdown," Dan Lawton, Substack (2021).
8. Midge Decter, The Boys on the Beach (1980) and "Comrades in Arms" (on Neuhaus) and "A Jew in Anti-Christian America".
9."Everything you need to know about psychedelics and mental illness:The science of psychedelics is everywhere – but we should treat it with serious scepticism," Stuart Ritchie, Substack (2022).
10. "from-a-longtime-womens-basketball-coach"
11. "No, the Revolution Isn’t Over:None of the fundamental drivers of “Wokeness” have relented," N.S. Lyons, Substack (Jan 18, 2022)
12. "African IQs and mental retardation: Understanding the two types of mental retardation," Emil O. W. Kirkegaard, Substack (October 27, 2022).
- "African intelligence levels around 70 IQ are not like kids in a typical western country's special education class. These kids often suffer from severe genetic disorders, or birth trauma. Their behavior is abnormal because of this aside from their low intelligence."
Also Rans:
- "My ‘free speech’ college is silencing me: Students are being turned into informants," BY CHRISTOPHER NADON, Unherd (Sept. 5, 2022).
- "Removing Inflation Distortions From The Tax Base - The 1984 Solution," Peter J Reilly, Forbes (2022).
- Natural Law in Early Protestantism," Kyle Dillon on November 3, 2020. Mere Orthodoxy.
- "Unprecedented: On the Novelty of Our Cultural Predicament," Michael Anton, The New Criterion, December 2021.