- How to travel from Janan Ganesh (I agree with most, and the discerning reader should have no trouble identifying the minor point of disagreement)
- Journal articles are trying to do six things at once — no wonder they’re unreadable (yes!)
- Is atheism like a point null hypothesis? and other thoughts on religion (Tyler Cowen was correct)
- The Sacrifices We Choose to Make from Michael Nielsen (in the same vein as the above)
- The Herd of Independent Minds: Has the Avant-Garde Its Own Mass Culture? (written in 1948, but more and more herds of ever-more independent minds are still roaming)