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Yearly Archives: 2012
Unz on Meritocracy: David Brooks’ Sidney Award and Other Reactions
Late Monday night I received a most remarkable and unexpected Christmas present delivered straight from august offices of the New York Times, as David Brooks, one of America’s most prominent center-right journalists, named my recent piece “The Myth of American … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration/Race, Meritocracy, UnzColumn
Tagged Immigration/Race, Meritocracy
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New York Times: Asian-American Quotas in the Ivy League?
The New York Times, America’s national newspaper of record, has published a forum debating the existence of Asian-American quotas in the Ivy League. My own contribution, drawn from my recent article The Myth of American Meritocracy, focused on the statistical evidence: Statistics … Continue reading
Statistics Indicate an Ivy League Asian Quota
Statistics Indicate an Ivy League Asian Quota by Ron Unz The New York Times, Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Just as their predecessors of the 1920s always denied the existence of “Jewish quotas,” top officials at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration/Race, Meritocracy, Published
Tagged Immigration/Race, Meritocracy, New York Times, Pub
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Harvard as Hedge Fund: Harvard Replies
The reaction to my long Meritocracy cover story followed a very unusual pattern. On the one hand, the piece received just a fraction of the major links and web discussions which several of my previous articles have attracted, and many of these … Continue reading
Paying Tuition to a Giant Hedge Fund
Paying Tuition to a Giant Hedge Fund The American Conservative, December 2012 From its 1636 foundation Harvard had always ranked as America’s oldest and most prestigious college, even as it gradually grew in size and academic quality during the first … Continue reading
Posted in Economics/Finance, Humor, Meritocracy, Published
Tagged American Conservative, Economics/Finance, Humor, Meritocracy
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The Myth of American Meritocracy
The Myth of American Meritocracy The American Conservative, December 2012, Cover Story Just before the Labor Day weekend, a front page New York Times story broke the news of the largest cheating scandal in Harvard University history, in which nearly … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration/Race, Meritocracy, Published
Tagged American Conservative, Cover Story, Immigration/Race, Major Item, Meritocracy
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A New UNZ.org Research Competition
Earlier this summer, we ran a Historical Research Competition to help promote and publicize our UNZ.org content-archiving website, and the results were very satisfactory. Numerous excellent submissions were received, the prizes were awarded, and probably as a consequence our daily … Continue reading
Raising American Wages…by Raising American Wages
Raising American Wages…by Raising American Wages The New America Foundation, November 15, 2012 With Americans still trapped in the fifth year of our Great Recession, and median personal income having been essentially stagnant for forty years, perhaps we should finally … Continue reading
Posted in Economics/Finance, Published
Tagged Economics/Finance, Major Item, Minimum Wage, New America Foundation
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Two Decades of Analysis on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
The surprisingly wide national victory of President Barack Obama over his Republican challenger has occasioned quite a lot of political second-guessing, including among the GOP donors who contributed well over one billion dollars in cash to their candidate, only to … Continue reading
No Quotas, No Elite Public High School
No Quotas, No Elite Public High School The American Conservative, November 2012 In late September I attended a memorial service for William M. Fitz-Gibbon, a retired public school teacher who had passed away a few weeks earlier, just short of … Continue reading
Britain’s Most Beloved Child-Molester
Even as the front pages of America’s top newspapers were debating the vital question of whether Obama’s raised eyebrow had overcome Romney’s clenched jaw, and which of our two ideologically-polar-opposite candidates was more sincere in his pledge of undying loyalty … Continue reading
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Unz on Race/IQ: The Entire Series and Debate
With my long sequence of articles and columns on Race/IQ having now apparently wound to a close, I thought I’d provide a full collection of the entire series and accompanying debate for convenient future access, not least for myself. Running … Continue reading
The Influence of Encounter
The endless pace of change in our media landscape regularly plays tricks upon all of us. Many have seen the amusing web video in which a very young child repeatedly attempts to click or swipe the colorful pages of a … Continue reading
Two Cheers for Heresy on Global Warming
Two Cheers for Heresy on Global Warming The American Conservative, October 2012 I first encountered the strong case for global warming in the early 1970s in an Isaac Asimov science column. As an elementary school student, I merely nodded my … Continue reading
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The Third Greatest Genius in Human History
Although we hear endless complaints about the overly rich compensation of our corporate elite, the front page of this morning’s New York Times Business Section provided a glowing portrait of an obvious exception to this pattern, namely Viacom CEO Philippe … Continue reading
Unz on Race/IQ: Super-Flynn Effects in Germans, Jews, and Hispanics
Although the vast majority of the angry responses greeting my Race/IQ article focused on a few of the ethnicities I had examined—Irish, Mexicans, Italians—my coverage had actually been quite broad, and I presented a large number of IQ gaps whose … Continue reading
Unz on Hispanic Crime: A Postscript
Determining American reality is sometimes difficult due to the flaws of government statistics, with the contentious subject of race and crime being a perfect example. The FBI publishes a Uniform Crime Report, providing a vast quantity of public data on crime and arrest … Continue reading
Unz on Race/IQ: A Coda on Mexican-American IQ
Although the claims regarding Irish IQ had unexpectedly attracted so many of the angry attacks on my recent Race/IQ series, it seemed quite obvious to me that this represented merely a stalking-horse for the related question of Mexican IQ.
Buckley’s Unlikely Heir: Alexander Cockburn, 1941-2012
Buckley’s Unlikely Heir: Remembering Alexander Cockburn, 1941-2012 The American Conservative, September 2012 I first encountered the writing of Alexander Cockburn in the early 1990s on the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal, where he served as a regular columnist. Given that … Continue reading
Almost a Century Ahead of The New York Times
As people are probably aware, I’ve recently written a few articles and subsequently participated in various Internet discussions. But for most of the last decade, stretching back well into the 2000s, my time was largely absorbed by a major software … Continue reading
Unz on Race/IQ: Irish IQ & Chinese IQ
One of the many surprises I’ve encountered when reading the dozens of web pages and many hundreds of comments attacking my Race/IQ analysis is the overwhelming focus of these critics upon my Irish data. Although I discuss similar ethnic IQ … Continue reading
Unz on Race/IQ – Is It “Game Over”?
Given the vast outpouring of agitated and angry remarks by those bloggers and commenters whose long-cherished beliefs have been challenged by my Race/IQ article, it’s always very nice to discover a supportive voice, even if I might not necessary agree … Continue reading
Unz on Race/IQ: Response to Lynn and Nyborg
Richard Lynn has now produced a lengthy and detailed rebuttal to my article Race, IQ & Wealth questioning his theories, as has Helmuth Nyborg, another leading IQ expert and strong supporter of Lynn. Their analyses have been published or highlighted on … Continue reading
Unz on Race/IQ: Incorporating the Racialist Perspective
As I’ve often told my friends over the years, the careful investigation of racial and ethnic differences presents huge difficulties in present-day American society. On the one hand, the topic is a very interesting and important one, especially in a … Continue reading
Unz on Race/IQ: The Boston Globe Takes Notice
If New York is America’s finance capital, with Los Angeles filling the same role for entertainment and Silicon Valley for technology, then surely the Boston area constitutes our center of academic and intellectual life, being home to a host of top … Continue reading