It seems like 2021 has lasted about 3 weeks, I’m still behind on so many things I wanted to do - and we’re still waiting for this pandemic to be over. I’m still working on a book proposal, and finishing up some little projects.

But to be positive, I wanted to look at the things I’ve enjoyed this year.

Reading:

No one will Miss Her, Kat Rosenfield

Being Duchess Goldblatt, Anonymous

The Lost Family, Libby Copeland

The Ugly Cry, Danielle Henderson

Watching:

The Morning Show on Apple+

Home Before Dark on Apple+

Passing on Netflix

Midnight Mass on Netflix

I’ve also written quite a bit in 2021, and I’ve put links below in case you want to catch up!

“American Beauty”, Arc Digital, December 26
“Why D. B. Cooper Continues to Fascinate”, Washington Post, December 22
“Why We Drink”, Reason, November
“Innovating Humanity”, The American Conservative, November
“Don’t Ask a Historian what History Is”, Spectator, October 16, 2021
“At Sea in the Age of Covid Anxiety”, Wall St Journal, October 10, 2021
“The Making of the Waldorf-Astoria”, New Criterion, September 17, 2021
“WASP Country”, Arc Digital, September 8, 2021
“The Evolution of Fun”, City Journal, July 30, 2021
“Cities of Tomorrow”, City Journal, July 9, 2021
“Where the Shooters Come From”, The American Conservative, May 18, 2021
“Choosing Apple”, Spectator USA, April 2021
“Labouring Unloved”, The Critic, April 2021
“The School Attack America Forgot”, The American Conservative, April 1, 2021
“For Women Only”, City Journal, Winter 2021
“Miracles and Magic”, Reason, February 2021
“Arctic Explorers who Battled Scurvy, Starvation and Bears”, The Washington Post, January 29, 2021
“Heroine Problem”, Spectator USA, January 2021