If the cultural landscape becomes too different from the actual landscape, then we will make practical errors that will be destructive to the actual landscape or of ourselves, or both.
-Wendell Berry, “Two Minds”
Top few:
- Barbara Moran, ‘I Wanted To Be On Land’: A Conversation With Urban Farmer Kafi Dixon
- Shawn McCreesh, In My Hometown, Opioids Are Still Stealing Lives
- Mike Gecan, How to Lose a Union Drive
- Joe Klein, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Was Often Right
Others of note, in no particular order:
- Matthew Petty, Save the Suburbs with Pattern Zones
- Richard Kahlenberg, The ‘New Redlining’ Is Deciding Who Lives in Your Neighborhood
- Jane Mayer, The Case of Al Franken
- Agnes Callard, A More Perfect Meritocracy
- Mary Jordan, The unexpected political power of dentists
- Ben Smith, Inside America’s Most Interesting Magazine, and Media’s Oddest Workplace
- Sophie Yeo, Inside the new campaign to rewild the Royal Family, Church and Oxbridge
- Patrick Mazza, Saami indigenous back down Gates-funded geoengineering experiment
- Marc Novicoff, Stop marketing race-blind policies as racial equity initiatives
- Christian Brand, Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
- Paul Hetzler, Do nothing about invasive plants [Ed.: An angle I had not considered before.]
- Julie Cart and Rachel Becker, Running out of water and time: How unprepared is California for 2021’s drought?
- Tom Gjelten, Can America’s ‘Civil Religion’ Still Unite The Country?
- Jeet Heer, The Reactionary International
- Dan Drezner, The worsening state of U.S. civilian-military relations
- Amber A’Lee Frost, Why the Left Can’t Stand The New York Times
- Tom Mackaman, An interview with political scientist Adolph Reed, Jr. on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Adolph Reed, Jr., From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much
- Alexander Stern, Authenticity is a Sham
- Ross Douthat, The Two Crises of Conservatism
- Eric Kaufmann, The Rebirth of the Left-Conservative Tradition
On the lighter side:
- Andy Greenberg, They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War
- Chris Helzer, Building Support for Conservation by Meeting People Where They Are
A closing thought: