LGM 2021 Wrap Up

It has been a year.

Top Ten Posts

1. Today is the Day Ashli Babbitt Became a Good Fascist, January 6, Campos
2. America Gone Mad, December 21, Campos
3. The Gasbag of Fascism, February 17, Loomis
4. Tucker Carlson Celebrated the Murderer of Harvey Milk and George Moscone, April 21, Lemieux
5. Lauren Boebert Wants You to Know That She’s Totally Not Guilty of that Thing That She Definitely Didn’t Do, January 15, Campos
6. A White Person Just Can’t Catch a Break at… Smith College?, February 19, Lemieux
7. Don’t Eat at Subway, January 30, Loomis
8. Why Does College Cost So Much?, May 30, Campos
9. 11 More Senators Join Josh Hawley’s Sedition Caucus, January 2, Lemieux
10. Cancel Culture Telephone, May 17, Lemieux

Top Five Pods

1. Cruelty is the Point, Campos, Lemieux, Adam Serwer
2. Reaganland, Campos, Lemieux, Loomis, Rick Perlstein
3. An Oral History of the Blogophere, Episode 1 Farley, Lemieux, Matt Yglesias
4. When Political Science Theories Go Viral, Nexon, Paul Musgrave
5. Impeachment II, The Re-Impeachening, Campos, Farley, Lemieux

Top Five Cities

1. New York
2. Chicago
3. Seattle
4. Washington, DC
5. Los Angeles

Top Five States

1. California
2. New York
3. Washington
4. Illinois
5. Massachusetts

Top Five Countries

1. United States
2. Canada
3. United Kingdom
4. China
5. Australia

Everything geographic is exactly the same as last year, except for China jumping from number twelve to number four and pushing Germany out of the top five. If you’re wondering whether the newfound importance of our Chinese audience will have an editorial impact, worry no more; moving forward we have hired an ombudsman to ensure that our content remains in line with the basic frameworks of Xi Jinping Thought.

Finally, while we don’t have the functionality to break down comments by month or year (Disqus isn’t great with the stats) we can offer a list of the most frequent commenters of LGM’s Disqus Epoch. Next year we should be able to use this data to build backwards and start publishing rough yearly totals.

1. BiloSagdiyev
2. Ben in RVA
3. Eric Scharf
4. Toby Farquarson III
5. CV Danes