Memorable Articles

Introduction

• [ https://www.takimag.com/article/putins-best-laid-plans/ /putins-best-laid-plans] by Steve Aailer (2022).

• Do you know what your eight great-grandparents did for a living? Does anyone? Twitter.

• "Building on Tradition — 1,400 Years of a Family Business" by Irene Herrera "Before its liquidation, Kongō Gumi was the oldest continuously operating company in the world. Founded in Japan a mere century after the fall of the Roman Empire, it survived extreme changes in Japan’s culture, government and economy, preserving traditional construction techniques and family values for over 1,400 years."

• "The Most Overrated and Underrated Cuts of Beef, According to Chefs," Dan Gentile (November 9, 2021).

• Mark Steyn Articles

• "Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?" NY Times, May 7, 2021.

• Valery Salov, one of the world's best chess players, thinks Hitler was part of a conspiracy to set up the nation of Israel, that Jewish identity is a myth, and that the Kabbalah explains a lot. Bobby Fischer too.

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Economics

• "COMMENT ON ANGRIST AND PISCHKE," CHRISTOPHER A. SIMS (2010). On econometrics, with special attention to macro and instrumental variables.

• "Discharging the Discharge for Value Defense," Eric Talley on Revlon Clauses in bank documents (2021).

• "Inside the Real-Life Succession Battle at Scholastic: The powerhouse children’s publisher, known for Harry Potter, had been passed from father to son until Iole Lucchese, a top executive, was given control." NYTimes (2021).

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The Left

• "The Old South Shall Rise Again, Victor Hanson, The New Criterion (2022). How Silicon Valley and the Antebellum South have many social parallels-- race obsession, poor infrastructure, great wealth, one-party rule, etc.

• "Facing the music: On the decline of the WASP establishment, by Wallace S. Moyle, The New Criterion, 2022.

• "Tensions Rise In Middle East As One Side Wants To Kill Jews And The Other Side Are Jews Who Don't Want To Die And Neither Will Compromise"

• Peter Hitchens' memorial article on his brother, Christopher.

• Horrible Steve, Babylon Bee (2021).

• "The Media Lied Repeatedly About Officer Brian Sicknick's Death. And They Just Got Caught," Greenwald, on the New York Times's bald lies about Officer Sicknick's death at the US Capitol (2021).

• "Dr. Seuss, Meet the Sanitized Sleuths Known as the Hardy Boys; The detective novels got a rewrite in 1959. Was it a needed scrubbing or a sign of cancel culture?," WSJ.

• “We Will Burn and Loot and Destroy”: The Weather Underground and Its Legacy, Jay Nordlinger, Law and Liberty (2021). The first part is informative, but towards the end he makes the ridiculous claim that the Right supported violence like the Left did in 2020, and that we all underestimate how much violence is on our side. No we don't. The media is Left, and biases us all towards underestimating Left violence and towards imagining Right violence. Nordlinger is Establishment, and so he doesn't like Trump and wants to smear him. Still, the first 4/5 of the article is good.

• https://quillette.com/2021/03/12/the-threat-to-academic-freedom-from-anecdotes-to-data/

• "Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene: Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality— and then pretend to be engines of social change." Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic (2021).

• Carlie-browns-interior-christmas-adventure Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic (2020).

• "They Had It Coming: The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs.", Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic (2019).

The Right

• Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell" Scott Alexander (2013).

• "Activist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. JosephActivist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. Joseph," (2021),

• "will-zemmour-bring-a-right-wing-revolution-in-france/" (2021)

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Miscellaneous

• Personality disorders," Mayo Clinic description of the three clusters, euphemistically called A, B, and C. Are they psychotics, sociopaths, and neurotics?

• Virginia Postrel on polyester (2022)

• "All the Godzilla Movies Ranked," Variety, Matthew Cherno (2021).

• "Book Review: The New Sultan| Summary and commentary on Soner Cagaptay's "The New Sultan: Erdogan And The Crisis Of Modern Turkey," Astral Codex Ten (2021).

• "Your Book Review: On The Natural Faculties," on Galen. Very good, pleasant reading.

• "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades," Stephen G. Breyer.

• Bros in Lecce review, a very bad tasting menu.

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