I have been writing more pieces for outside publications than I used to. If you click on the articles button on the top right, and then scroll down, you can count 27 articles in the last year or so. If you scroll down further, you will see about a three year gap. Forgive me, I was in a cave for several years writing A Conservative History of the American Left. I don't want to disappear again, so I'm writing articles as I attempt to research a new book. Atop the book writing and blog posting, I have averaged about an article every two weeks for the last year. I aim to increase the output in the next year. Items that I might have once turned into elongated posts I will concentrate on shipping to outside venues. The reasons are twofold. More people read these outside venues than FlynnFiles and whereas I pay to keep FlynnFiles afloat these outside venues' pay keeps Flynn afloat. When I link to these articles on FlynnFiles, could I ask that you follow the link and read them? With a few obvious exceptions, I generally spend more time on these articles than on a blog post. Ironically, the attention outside articles generate on FlynnFiles is generally less than garden-variety posts. Perhaps this has to do with the ease of reading what is in front of you versus the added step of having to click a link to read an item hosted elsewhere. Whatever the cause, my hope is that the increase in articles leads to an increase of FlynnFiles readers of those articles. There's some good stuff coming on an eclectic range of topics--U2, the Great Books, my favorite historian, the revenue-generating schemes of cash-hungry states, and much, much more.

Will gladly do.

Dan,

I read and enjoy all of the articles that you write and link to but I tend to concentrate (most times) more on commenting on the post in front of me.

In total, always good reading and reason to comment.