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

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. "African IQs and mental retardation: Understanding the two types of mental retardation," Emil O. W. Kirkegaard, Substack.

4. 2022 Quillette article by Winegard and co-author on male vs. female attitudes and Truth vs. Morality as goals of universities.

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. "I will never accept ‘Kyiv’ For that matter, I still haven’t given up on Bombay, Peking or Burma," Ed West, Substack (2022).

"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.

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