Tablet Top Ten 2021

Tablet Top Tens
Here are all the articles we highlighted at years’ ends, over the years. Happy New Year!
byThe Editors
Needle Points
Why so many are hesitant to get the COVID vaccines, and what we can do about it.
byNorman Doidge
I Have Been Through This Before
Don’t wear a mask; you must wear a mask. Buy a pulse oximeter. Stock up on Tylenol, vitamin D, Pepcid. Whisper so you don’t spit. Stand six feet from others—no, 10. Wear gloves. Wear two masks! Open the windows. Close the schools. The dizzying madness of COVID, and the reliance on gurulike experts, has been eerily familiar.
byAnn Bauer
An Almost-Country in the Desert That Doesn’t Care About Your Understanding of Politics
Observing the recent elections in Somaliland
byArmin Rosen
France’s Great Debate Over the Sources and Meaning of Muslim Terror
A rivalry between the country’s two most prominent ‘Islamologists,’ Olivier Roy and Gilles Kepel, holds the key to understanding the existential and geopolitical tensions in France’s bloody reality
byMarc Weitzmann
Clothes for the Man Who’s Got Nowhere to Wear Them
A Gatsby-esque collection of shirts and ties speaks to the COVID age of sweatpants and sneakers
byHoward Jacobson
The Woke Meritocracy
How telling the right stories about overcoming oppression in the right way became a requirement for entering the elite credentialing system
byBlake Smith
The Doublethinkers
In assessing my own liberation, I recall a conformity that feels terrifyingly familiar today
byNatan Sharansky with Gil Troy
The Thirty Tyrants
The deal that the American elite chose to make with China has a precedent in the history of Athens and Sparta
byLee Smith
The New Americans
In a moment of anger, chaos, and disintegration, they gave us hope
byDavid Samuels
Everything Is Broken
And how to fix it
byAlana Newhouse