Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2023

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This will contain candidates for good articles.

• "REVIEW: Demons, by Fyodor Dostoevsky," JOHN PSMITH Substack (JUL 17, 2023).

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

• "Why-i-gave-up-my-professorship," Kai Jaeger, Substack (2023).

• "Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Stephen Kotkin)" (1922) and "The Power of the Powerless (Václav Havel)", Charles Haywood. Related to each other.

• "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?"

• "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.

• Economists and Covid, Jay Bhattacharya.

• Soviet army , Big Serge Substack (2023).

• Books and Scrolls,"

• "elon-musk-worse-than-hitler," Titania McGrath, The Critic (2023).

• "Grim Tales," Kari Gold, First Things (2000).

• "The British Colonial Mindset," Ed West, Substack (2023).

• "10-myths-told-by-covid-experts-now-debunked/" NY Post (2023).

• "WHO WAS THE REAL SARAH RECTOR, “THE RICHEST BLACK GIRL IN AMERICA?”" Martin City Telegraph (January 19, 2020).

• "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."

• "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.

• "Why the Culture of the So-Called Great Books is Hostile to Trans People: Naomi Kanakia on the Intellectual Cult of the Transphobic Rationalist,"

• "Fiddling America Away," Victor Hanson (2023).

• "We Are What We Watch,", Steve Sailer.

• "The Impossible Bronze Age Mindset," American Reformer (2023).

• "Remembering Edward Shils," Commentary, Joseph Epstein. Absolutely first rate.

• "most-famous-pirates-of-all-time/ "

• Lawsuits as a way around Civil rights laws, Bryan Kaplan blog post on the Texas abortion law and the Civil Rights Act.

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

• "/multiple-concussions-may-have-sped-hemingways-demise-psychiatrist-argues," Smithsonian (2017).

• "why-the-english-department-died" QUillette (2023).

• "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

• "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.

• "W.H.O. Do You Trust?" Scott Atlas on WHO and on the Fauci-Collins conspiracy to hide the origins of covid.

• "How Hard Work Destroys Character: The case against making talented young people do menial labor," American Greatness, Josiah Lippincott (March 27, 2023).

• "2022 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1 Pickup: A Truck With Moves Like a Porsche GM’s all-electric revival of the Hummer brand weighs more than 9,000 pounds and does 0 to 60 in about 3 seconds." WSJ Dan.

• "An Apologia for English Food," Stone Age Herbalist, Twitter. THe comments too. 2023.

• "Classical Education’s Woke Co-Morbidity," Matthew Freeman, The AMerican Conservative. On how the CLassical Learning test's organization has been infected by wokeness. (2023).

• are-there-trustworthy-protestant-universities/ (2023).

• how-the-deep-state-took-down-nixon (2023).