By a wide margin, the most popular featured article this last week was my own response to the rather ridiculous story in the Harvard Crimson calling attention to some of my past financial donations, and suggesting that they might perhaps mark me as an anti-immigrant zealot, even one with so-called “White Nationalist” sympathies.  The refusal of the Crimson to publish the rebuttal that they themselves had originally solicited may have protected them from ridicule, but it was hardly a sign of great confidence in their arguments, and such behavior drew the ire of Steve Pinker, one of Harvard’s most renowned current faculty members.  These days too much of our media has reached the solipsistic position in which their endless purges of anyone in sharp ideological disagreement has produced an echo-chamber effect, causing them to assume that there exists no plausible counter-argument to any of their positions.

The next three spots were filled by somewhat related articles. First, there was Anatoly Karlin’s interesting analysis of the remarkably strong support Donald Trump draws from Jewish immigrants born in the former Soviet Union, while he remains almost total anathema to virtually all other American Jews. Next, there was Philip Giraldi’s focus on the endless war-mongering of the current Democratic administration, although Barack Obama was originally elected as a “peace candidate.” And finally, there was James Petras’s argument that much of the endless media vilification of Trump was a backdoor means of boosting liberal support for his likely opponent, Hillary Clinton, who arguably is far worse on the vital issues of war and peace in the world.

Round out the top six features was Ilana Mercer’s unhappiness at a particularly curious omission from the publicly promoted roster of prominent Paleolibertarian figures, and Israel Shamir’s praise for Jewish presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, as being one of the infinitesimal number of American political figures willing to strongly stand up to the Israel Lobby and sharply criticize our one-sided Middle East policy.