The Top Ten Editors Articles of 2025
They held the New York Times, Harvard, and the Fed up to skeptical independent scrutiny
The articles that get the most traffic aren’t necessarily the best articles. I’m not a full-blown populist. Yet I am a believer in the wisdom of crowds and in trying to pay some attention to what readers—the customers—want. So at year-end, here is a list of the articles published here in 2025 that got the most traffic.
The articles that get the most views are not necessarily the same as the articles that sell the most paid subscriptions, but there is some overlap.
If there’s a common theme among the articles that made the list, it is probably the effort here to be an independent, skeptical watchdog to large, old, rich, and sometimes arrogant and complacent institutions that consider themselves elite—Harvard, the New York Times, the Federal Reserve.
In a year when the news often seemed dominated by President Trump, the word “Trump” appears, strangely enough, in not a single one of these headlines.
Nine of the ten pieces were written by me, but as with the Top Ten Editors Articles of 2024, one of these pieces was by David Wurmser, a perceptive analyst of the Middle East and of America. I’m grateful to him. I’m also appreciative of all Editors readers, especially the paying ones. Your collective judgment helped shape this list.
Another observation that went with last year’s list also applies: The most successful articles are scoops, those that surprise readers by being the first to deliver new information or analysis that is not readily available elsewhere. “Information is surprise,” as George Gilder says.
May the year ahead be full of surprises on the upside.
Here is the list:
Nine Reasons The New York Times’s Big Attack on Netanyahu Is Totally Bogus
Harvard’s New Hire Says She’s Boycotting Israel and Avoids Synagogues. She’ll Be Teaching Judaism.
Harvard Gives Honorary Degree to Berkeley Boycott-Israel Advocate
Why Apple Can’t Make iPhones in U.S.: “Small Hands” of Chinese Workers, New York Times Claims
Has the Palestine Solidarity Committee Taken Over The Harvard Crimson?
Harvard Makes Exceptions to Hiring Freeze to Add Jewish Studies Professors
New York Times Race-Polices Zohran Mamdani Using Stolen Property
Are Egypt and Israel Stumbling Toward War? By David Wurmser