Ten magazine articles and/or journal essays that either changed my mind or deepened my opinion on something that matters to me:
Education
1. Kids’ reading, math skills are worsening.
What’s going on?
Kayla Jimenez in USA Today
Read it here.
Economics
2. Five People I Refuse to Take Seriously
Garrett Baldwin in Postcards from the Republic
Read it here.
3. The Number of Hours Americans Must Work to Afford Their Mortgages
Elizabeth Beauchamp in Today’s Homeowner
Read it here.
Domestic Politics
4. John Fetterman Admits What No Democrat Wants to Say
Tara Palmeri in The Diligent Fox
Read it here.
Society & Culture
5. PBS Disappears DEI Department in Wake of Investigation
Josh Code in The Free Press
Read it here.
Geopolitics
6. Make the Ukraine Truce, Then Cut Europe Loose
David Stockman in David Stockman’s Contra Corner
Read it here.
7. Inside Russia’s Torture System for Ukrainian Prisoners
Thomas Grove in The Wall Street Journal
Read it here.
History
8. Malleus Maleficarum (The Witch’s Hammer):
A Manual of Terror in 16th Century Europe
Editorial Staff of Historic Mysteries
Read it here.
Health
9. Cancer Deaths Rose in Japan in 2022 and 2023
(post-mRNA shots)
Alex Berenson in Unreported Truths
Read it here.
Puzzles & Games
10. The Asian Game of Mahjong
Which Creates Order Out of Chaos,
Is Trending in the West
Claire Turrell in Smithsonian Magazine
Read it here.