My favorite reads from 2021

The world is falling to pieces, but sometimes we still have fun

Hi friends. Today is December 17, 2021.

This is your last Links of the year, an occasion that calls for some contemplation. The year began with an armed uprising; it ended with a tornado. And in between, we got stonks, Squid Game, hot beekeepers, Omicron and ≈1500 Facebook scandals.

You can’t make much sense out of that, I don’t think. There’s no line of …