These were the 10-most-read pieces from last month. As is usual, not all of these were written last month. Those that are older and "evergreen" will be noted as such.
No. 10: "Abortion: A Gordian knot for many liberals" from 2014 dived in depth into how much this is not a black and white issue.
No. 9: My piece about how Edith Hamilton mistranslated one word in Aeschylus famous saying, and then, how Robert F. Kennedy misquoted her deliberately incorrect translation, talked about how this bowdlerized a thought already bad on the issue of theodicy within classical polytheism and made it even worse within Christian monotheism, and how it also is another reason to question to legacies of both Hamilton and Kennedy.
No. 8 was from way back in 2013, and was a shredding review of Chris Stedman's "Faitheist." The book is no better, and, AFAIK, Stedman is no more intellectually honest, 13 years later. I did do teh Google, and see that he is now on Substack, natch. As for what he's writing about? Minnesota nice librul humanism of a sort. He does write about ICE, unavoidable in Minneapolis. He does not have a single word about Gaza and Palestine. Fuck off, even more than before.
No. 7? "Global warming may be speeding up" says it all.
No. 6? A golden oldie from 2006. Again, the title says it all: "Timothy Treadwell WAS really fricking nuts."
No. 5 was about the largely self-inflicted water crisis in Corpus Christi.
No. 4, from early March, was my take on the Iran War at one week. Update now that we're at one month, not one week? Trump's gotten stupider and more Norman Vincent Peale stubborn, and may be getting puppeted a bit by Hegseth. Congressional Democraps may or may not find more cojones after Easter. Ditto to even a smaller degree with Rethuglicans.
No. 3, one week later, was related. It was about red heifers without spot or blemish, including how Israel is slow-walking and suckering Texas ranchers trying to raise them, and it was also about some things the Texas Monthly "shockingly" got wrong on its biblical interpretation.
No. 2, from 2014? Brian Dunning was intellectually dishonest and also legally guilty just a year after Chris Stedman was an intellectually dishonest glory hound and nothing has changed since then.
No. 1 was a March roundup of environmental news, starting with undercounting of methane leaks. We're looking more and more screwed all the time on climate change.