Placing first this last week was Linh Dinh’s discussion of a few later revelations of the more sordid side of Albert Einstein’s private views and behavior, long suppressed by Jewish journalists and writers, a topic that soon provoked an outpouring of nearly 500 related comments, totaling over 65,000 words.

Running a close second was Paul Kersey’s discussion of the rate of theft in an overwhelmingly black area near Atlanta, which has reached such remarkable levels that grocery stores have been forced to take the precaution of placing their regular aisles behind protective barriers, which quickly attracted 1.4K Facebook Likes despite several days of apparent censorship by that Social Media platform.

Our third most popular featured article was the Saker’s review of the new technological weapons systems, several of them pioneered by Russia, which have largely eliminated America’s perceived military advantages and suddenly removed our decades-long assumed monopoly on supreme global striking power.  With foreign drones and cruise-missiles having been used to suddenly destroy the majority of the Saudi refining capacity while their forces have suffered repeated defeats in Yemen, the ineffectiveness of the gigantic amounts that government has spent on purchasing both offensive and defensive American weaponry over the years has become clear.

Ranking fourth was John Derbyshire’s extended discussion of his recent extended trip to China and the astonishing economic and technological progress that huge country has made in the 18 years since his previous visit and the 36 years since he had previously lived there.

And rounding out our most popular featured articles was Philip Giraldi’s discussion on the very considerable number of Israeli citizens occupying key points near the top of the American government and especially its national security and financial administration, along with Lance Welton’s focus on the ongoing collapse of the “College Bubble,” leaving behind a gigantic accumulated debt for younger Americans.

Finally, although my own 20,000 word historical “counter-narrative” of World War II has dropped out of the top spots, it continues to accumulate readership, after less than three weeks already reaching the third spot of all our articles published over the last six months, and with its more than 1300 comments now totaling over 235,000 words.