Despite our Google and Facebook bans, the huge wave of American chaos and disorder propelled our website traffic to easily break all traffic records during June, with that unfortunate topic being the subject of our three most popular featured articles.

Ranking first and second were similarly despairing pieces by Wayne Allensworth and Fred Reed.  With so many of our cities experiencing unchecked episodes of mass rioting and looting, and historic statues and monuments being freely vandalized and torn down, they both sadly proclaimed the looming collapse of American society regardless of the voting this November, together attracting nearly 900 comments totaling over 100,000 words.

Placing third was a closely-related analytical piece by Eric Striker, arguing that contrary to many conservative pundits, the rioters and looters hardly constitute elements of any recognizable “left,” more having a mixture of bourgeois and “lumpen” values.  He also claims that many of the current ideological purges are being orchestrated for reasons of self-interest by younger elites eager to advance in their hierarchy by removing those above them, with their accusations often merely constituting careerist cover.

In our fourth most popular featured article, an anonymous writer argued for a sweeping reassessment of everything we think we know about the history of Rome, suggesting that many of our primary historical sources supposedly from that era were actually forgeries produced a thousand or more years later during the Renaissance period.  This controversial thesis quickly provoked over 500 contentious comments, totaling over 60,000 words.

Ranking fifth was Guiallume Durocher’s pessimistic assessment of the economic prospects of Southern Europe, in which he argues that the longer term impact of the Coronavirus epidemic will permanently consign most of those European countries to second-tier status, eliminating any hope they had of reaching the economic levels of Germany and other successful Northern European economies.

And still ranking among our most popular pieces was John-Paul Leonard’s article from two weeks ago, making the strong case that George Floyd actually died of a drug overdose rather than police violence, thus suggesting that vast social and racial upheavals our unfortunate country experienced during June essentially amounted to the hoax.  This controversial piece has already become one of our most popular articles from the last six months, and the heated debate continues, now with more than 650 comments totaling over 100,000 words.