By a wide margin our most popular featured piece this last week was Paul Kersey’s short discussion of an example of one of the true underlying causes of the so-called “food deserts” sometimes found in black urban areas and routinely decried by our American media. namely a level of theft and pilferage so severe that a grocery store near Atlanta was forced to enclose its aisles behind locked barriers.  This topic drew 1.3K Facebook likes and over 160 contentious comments.

Second place was held by Trevor Lynch’s generally negative film review of Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick’s last film, posthumously released in 1999, whose plot carries distinct echoes of the elite sexual controversies recently highlighted in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Ranking third in a photo-finish as a hold-over from last week was my discussion of the history of the Second World War, incorporating portions of my previously published material to produce a comprehensive 20,000 word counter-narrative of the conflict that shaped our modern world.  This controversial thesis has already drawn nearly 200,000 words of contentious comments, quickly becoming one of the most popular articles I’ve published in recent years.  Although the length certainly seems quite considerable, this becomes less so when we consider the piece is aimed at challenging and refuting nearly all of the many hundreds of thousands of individual World War II books published during the last seventy-odd years.

Jewish issues were a central theme of our three next most popular featured articles, with Laurent Guyenot discussing the less well-known aspects of Freud’s psychoanalytic theories, noting that he had originally argued that actual child molestation was surprisingly common among the affluent Central European Jews who were his main early subjects before changing his mind and declaring such stories delusional.  Guillaume Durocher notes the recent sentencing of French political activist Alain Soral to two years in prison merely for linking to a rap video denouncing and attacking the Rothschild financial interests that dominate French society.  And Andrew Joyce provides a detailed compendium of the major justifiable causes of Anti-Semitism in recent European history.  Taken together, these three articles have nearly 900 contentious comments, totaling more than 100,000 words.

Finally, I should mention that Chanda Chisala’s article on whether Harvard is correct in restricting admissions to Asian-Americans is still going strong after nearly three weeks, with more than 1,000 comments totaling almost 140,000 words.