Best Things of 2025
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See also Best Things of 2024 and Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2023 and Best Articles 2021 and Top Ten Articles of 2025.
- The Deceiver, by Frederick Forsyth, author of the even better Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of War. I suspect that everything he writes is good.
- Weimar, a board game of 1920's German politics. I have come across so many good games this year! Frederick the Great: Crisis(7 Years War, 2020); Virgin Queen (1550-1600 religious and political conflict); Soviet Dawn: The Russian Civil War 1918-1921 (solitaire).
- French food-- restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops, fishmongers, butchers.
- Leather backpacks-- Marius one. This will replace my beloved briefcase.
- Gel Superglue, which doesn't run onto everything.
- Becherel, France, near Dinant just outside Brittany, like Hay on Wye, a bookstore town.
- Shepherds for Sale by Megan Basham. How big-name evangelical organizations have been cleverly corrupted by leftwing money. It's shocking how easy this was.
- John Reader, Africa: Biography of a Continent. From the geology to 2000 or so, lots of science as well as history .
- Perfect Rigour, Masha Gessen (2009). A biography a famous Russian eccentric mathematician recluse. Beautifully written.
- Rouen Cathedral. Not the most beautiful, but it has historical connections to all periods.
- Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou. In a chalk cavern, like many of the town's houses.
- Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb party (1980). A novel by the English novelist Graham Greene.
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- The Office
- The Ithaca Museum of the Earth fossil museum
- https://logeion.uchicago.edu/ Classical and Koine Greek lexicon
- Built-in GPS in cars-- Dacia and our BMW, and Tesla.
- Travelling in Europe with a Two-Year-Old.
- The New Board of Trustees
- Sleeping in airplanes sitting up
- French roadside "aires"
