9 Comments
Nov 8, 2022·edited Nov 8, 2022Liked by Arnold Kling

Great idea to list your current reading. I really respect Glenn, and he's one of the few I pay for - but I'm tired of most racism discussion, too.

Besides here with Arnold, I always read Instapundit, and daily read Neo at https://www.thenewneo.com/

who seems far more truthful and thorough, on the things she writes about, than any other I've found (including Arnold! who's second).

I'm developing Hanania envy, and he's often great, and insightful, plus with the humility of maybe not being correct. Arnold doesn't like Steve Sailor, and he IS more snarky than I like, but I look more for truth AND brevity, than snark or not. I especially like truth that is anti-PC & now anti-Woke.

I'm sick of reading about COVID, tho The Zvi is among the best.

For news, Trump & GOP fanboy Don Surber remains the best for summary.

Rod Dreher is the best Christian Right thinker & networker; but Rod's almost as long as Scott Alexander, whose often good analysis is flawed by me not quite trusting his honesty/ truthfulness; tho I trust him more than "conservative" Sullivan who always votes for Democrats for President.

Bari Weiss, with a bunch of other writers at Common Sense, is a bit uneven.

Razib Khan is fine, excellent on his subjects - but often those are not currently the most interesting to me, like this recent great piece https://razib.substack.com/p/the-turkification-of-anatolia-tales

Great for any interested in genetics based history of Anatolia, but not quite worth me paying limited cash & time for.

For much of the last year I enjoyed the great style of Freddie deBoer, but I'm about to cancel my paid subscription after buying his book, The Cult of Smart. Like with Glenn, the problem of how society should deal with low IQ young men is not yet being honestly discussed as the major problem it is, and the root of so many other problems discussed.

Infovores is now better. Tho I miss Handle's comments.

New to substack Brink Lindsey is right about the Permanent Problem - how, after economic survival issues are solved, should one live wisely, agreeably, and well?

Final plug to often interesting https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/.

Ref. Links (decided to mix some links with mostly link-free text above and links here below):

https://glennloury.substack.com/

https://instapundit.com

https://richardhanania.substack.com/

https://www.unz.com/isteve/

https://donsurber.blogspot.com

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/blogs/dreher/ (with a more religious substack, too)

https://www.commonsense.news/

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/

https://infovores.substack.com

https://brinklindsey.substack.com/p/loss-aversion-by-any-other-name-and

Expand full comment

I would add the Economist Magazine for it’s coverage of global news.

I am surprised that there is no economist on the list other than Tyler whose interests and writings have moved away from classical economics (which is a good thing given his great insights into so many areas). Thus, I would add the writings of Scott Grandis who blogs at http://scottgrannis.blogspot.com

Expand full comment

Surprised about Henderson as I don't tend to find him as interesting (not as original?) as many others. What's a good piece that is representative of the best he has to offer?

Expand full comment