I was looking for a good list, and Bari supplied it:
I chose Bari both in April (of 15) and May (of 5) as one of my Fantasy Intellectuals, and even subscribed for awhile to her. With my money AND time budget, plus the fact so many others are reading her and highlighting her best stuff, I switched to cooler but quite a bit ruder Freddie deBoer, one of who's essays was included in Bari's list. https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/
All manner of major interventions in student socioeconomic status, including adoption into dramatically different home and family conditions, have failed to produce the benefits you’d expect if academic outcomes were a simple function of money. I believe in redistribution as a way to ameliorate the consequences of poor academic performance. There is no reason to think that redistribution will ameliorate poor academic performance itself.
Not on her list is my favorite blogger TheNewNeo.com https://www.thenewneo.com/category/a-mind-is-a-difficult-thing-to-change/
Neo's is similar and different from the WalkAway videos, and different than:
The Turn - https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-turn-liel-leibovitz
More Bari's List: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/everything-is-broken
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/twenty-years-gone-911-bobby-mcilvaine/619490/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/motherhood-baby-bust-early-parenthood.html
https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-hatboro-blues/
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/caitlin-flanagan-secret-of-surviving-cancer/619844/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/tim-keller-growing-my-faith-face-death/618219/
https://www.commentary.org/articles/wilfred-reilly/race-in-america-good-news/
https://wisdomofcrowds.live/a-dead-end-year/
I will be commenting some on Freddie and also Glenn Loury, the other Black Guy who often talks with John McWhorter; The Glenn Show. A fine recent note is on the record homicides in Philly:
I read "You aren't actually mad at the SATs" with interest. Personally I'd love to know what the data looks like when you control for growing up in a stable two-parent household.