The articles you should read with your morning coffee: From back in July 2024, Scott Young’s Twelve Foundations for a Good Life. A couple of articles from The New York Times: The ‘Manosphere’? It’s Planet Earth. talking about this masculinity thing that is everywhere right now and Hilary Clinton asking the question, How Much Dumber Will This Get? One more political piece, an interview with Tim Walz outlining why the Democrats lost. A couple of baseball stories to round out the week: Will Leitch writes about Baseball’s Invisible Superstar and a question I had not thought of yet… Is This the Last Season Baseball Umpires Really Matter? (Man, I hope so…)