Ranking first this last week by a very wide margin was Mike Whitney’s latest coverage of the controversies regarding the mass vaccination drive for Covid-19, focusing upon the widespread suppression of dissenting information on that subject and the growing possibility of severe social restrictions upon those unwilling to be vaccinated, attracting some 400 comments, totaling more than 40,000 words.  Humorist C.J. Hopkins’ fifth-ranking piece covered much the same ground, satirically noting the ridiculous extremes of official language and policies directed against those resisting these controversial government policies.

Covid-19 issues were also the topic of several other of our most popular featured articles, with Linh Dinh’s second place piece discussing the thoughts that came to him during his severe recent three week illness, possibly a case of that disease, that struck him during an extended trip to Albania.

Ranking fourth but coming up very fast after just one day and soon to the second spot was a lengthy analysis of the progress of Covid-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa by noted mainstream science journalists Jon Entine and Patrick Whittle.  The authors argue that the extreme poverty and urban density of so many African cities would seem an ideal environment for the disease to sweep through in a massive epidemic, yet none of these fears have been realized, with illness and death rates just a fraction of those in Europe, North and South America, or South Asia, despite the near absence of strong public health measures.  Although the relative youthfulness of most African countries has contributed to this paradox, they  also suggest the possibility that underlying genetic differences may be a major factor, very quickly attracting more than 200 comments totaling over 20,000 words.

On other matters, Anatoly Karlin’s second-ranking column updated the objective and quantitative framework he had previously developed for analyzing the relative military power of countries worldwide, which now highlights the very rapid rise of China and substantial improvement in Russia, with the combined power of those two countries now combing close to matching that of the United States.  Any such quantitative analysis may obviously produce various anomalies, and these and other issues were discussed in more than 400 often-contentious comments, totaling nearly 40,000 words.

Finally, rounding out our most popular featured articles, Steve Sailer discussed the gigantic rise in urban crime and racial violence in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests, now finally being recognized by mainstream media outlets, though still with widespread obfuscations and excuses, drawing over 250 comments totaling more than 20,000 words.