Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2023

This will contain candidates for good articles.

• 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).

• [ https://www.takimag.com/article/are-we-what-we-watch/ "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? | Opinion," 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).