Best Articles Read in 2026

• "The scourge of ‘lame news’Journalists as narrative curators."

Ed West, Substack (2026).

• "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).