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Yearly Archives: 2013
Conservatives for More Welfare
Republished from The Unz Review As economic inequality and the plight of the working-poor have suddenly erupted as leading topics in the national debate, the proposed solution of a big minimum wage hike has evoked many varied reactions. On the Democratic side, … Continue reading
Raise the Minimum Wage to $12 an Hour
From Making Low Wages Livable – A Symposium in The New York Times Tens of millions of low-wage workers in the United States are trapped in lives of poverty. Many suggestions have been put forth to improve their difficult situation, ranging from … Continue reading
Posted in Economics/Finance
Tagged Minimum Wage, New York Times
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A $12 Minimum Wage: Transforming Policy Idea into Political Reality
Republished from The Unz Review As most readers have no doubt already heard, early last week I filed the text of an initiative that would raise California’s minimum wage to $12.00 per hour, a figure far higher than that of any … Continue reading
Posted in Economics/Finance
Tagged Minimum Wage, Unz Review
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Open Borders, American Elites, and the Minimum Wage
Read at The Unz Review Last week I took a brief break from two months of concentrated software development effort on my new publication The Unz Review to travel to NYC for a debate on a hypothetical “Open Borders” proposal for private … Continue reading
Posted in Economics/Finance, Immigration/Race
Tagged Economics/Finance, Immigration/Race, Minimum Wage
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Announcing The Unz Review
Following over two months of concentrated development effort, I’m very pleased to finally release my new webzine, The Unz Review, intended to provide a convenient platform for many of those important and controversial perspectives regularly ignored by our mainstream media outlets. … Continue reading
Race and Crime in America
Now read “Race and Crime in America” at The Unz Review The noted science fiction writer Philip K. Dick once declared that “Reality is what continues to exist whether you believe in it or not.” Such an observation should be kept in mind … Continue reading
NR on TNR on Unz on Minimum Wage/Immigration
Over the weekend, a leading financial voice at National Review—central ideological pillar of the mainstream American Right—gingerly endorsed my suggestion that a $12.00 per hour minimum wage be required as part of any Congressional immigration legislation. Perhaps miracles do indeed sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Economics/Finance, Immigration/Race, UnzColumn
Tagged Economics/Finance, Immigration/Race, Minimum Wage
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Race/IQ Revised
Last year I published Race, IQ, and Wealth, presenting the overwhelming evidence that group IQs were far more malleable and shaped by social influences than is widely acknowledged in many quarters. The result was a lengthy and ferocious Internet debate, … Continue reading
Posted in Science/Technology, UnzColumn
Tagged IQ, Race/IQ, Science/Technology
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American Pravda: “Liberal Bias”
When a small publication such as The American Conservative publishes a sharp attack against the mainstream media as I recently did in American Pravda, the ultimate result largely depends upon whether that selfsame media will take any notice. Many tens or even low … Continue reading
Posted in Media, UnzColumn
Tagged American Pravda, China, Media
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American Pravda: ZeroHedge
For years futurists have been regularly prophesizing that the power of the Internet will level the playing field between the mighty and the weak, and one more nugget of evidence that this day is finally dawning has now come to … Continue reading
Posted in Economics/Finance, Immigration/Race, Media, UnzColumn
Tagged American Pravda, Economics/Finance, Immigration/Race, Media, Minimum Wage
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No Immigration Amnesty Without a Minimum Wage Hike
No Immigration Amnesty Without a Minimum Wage Hike Salon, May 18, 2013 Congress is currently considering bipartisan legislation providing an amnesty for America’s 11 million illegal immigrants, probably combined with extra visas for skilled workers and an agricultural guestworker program. … Continue reading
Posted in Economics/Finance, Immigration/Race, Published
Tagged Economics/Finance, Immigration/Race, Minimum Wage, Salon.com
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American Pravda: Barrels of Gunpowder and Sparks
As I often tell people, there seems a totally unpredictable, even random aspect to major American media coverage. Whether a scandal explodes into the public eye or escapes without notice seems difficult to foretell. Consider the recent example of Dr. … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration/Race, Media, UnzColumn
Tagged American Pravda, Immigration/Race, IQ, Media
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Race/IQ: The Jason Richwine Affair
Amid loud cries of “Witch! Witch! Burn the Witch!” an enraged throng of ideological activists and media pundits late last week besieged the fortress-like DC headquarters of the conservative Heritage Foundation, demanding the person of one Jason Richwine, Ph.D., employed … Continue reading
Race/IQ Revisited
For a combination of demographic and ideological reasons few topics in American public life are more explosive than those involving race. Racial factors obviously underlie a wide range of major public policy issues yet are almost always ignored by nearly … Continue reading
American Pravda: Reality Television
The early reaction to my “American Pravda” article has been quite encouraging, with the piece attracting more traffic during its first week than nearly any of my others and with several websites discussing, excerpting, or even republishing it. Furthermore, the average time … Continue reading
Posted in Media, UnzColumn
Tagged American Pravda, Media
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Our American Pravda
Now read “Our American Pravda” at The Unz Review In mid-March, the Wall Street Journal carried a long discussion of the origins of the Bretton Woods system, the international financial framework that governed the Western world for decades after World War II. A … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Published
Tagged American Conservative, American Pravda, Major Item, Media
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Gay Germ Censorship
The notion of a Gay Germ—homosexuality transmitted as some sort of infection—probably horrifies many mainstream intellectuals unfamiliar with the details of modern evolutionary biology. Therefore, it is perhaps unsurprising that my recent column discussing that subject quickly provoked a striking example … Continue reading
Posted in Science/Technology, UnzColumn
Tagged Evolutionary Biology, Gays, Science/Technology
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Oops!!
With all eyes and all headlines fixed so intently upon Boston’s two Caucasian Bombers, hardly anyone has been paying attention to revelations of a far more devastating disaster that unfolded close nearby, but which were generally buried on the inside … Continue reading
“Gay Gene” vs. “Gay Germ”
The twists of intellectual fashion in our society are often quite peculiar, especially when “touchy” topics are involved. Consider, for example, the analysis of human behavior. Whatever most people may privately believe or say, the vocal academics and activists who … Continue reading
Posted in Science/Technology, UnzColumn
Tagged China, Chinese Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Gays, IQ, Science/Technology
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The Sidewalk Marriage Crusade
Given the unprecedented peace and prosperity currently enjoyed by nearly all Americans, it’s hardly surprising that a symbolic issue such as Gay Marriage has now moved to the forefront of the public debate, not least among the contributors to my … Continue reading
Unz on Meritocracy: The College Admissions Season
The season of college admissions is now upon us, weeks of envelopes fat and thin. With so many teenagers now discovering their future life-prospects as dealt out by our academic gatekeepers, discussions of the selection process are appearing in our … Continue reading
Posted in Meritocracy, UnzColumn
Tagged China, Chinese Evolution, IQ, Meritocracy
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The Bitter Legacy of Mickey Mouse
Developments of enormous consequence sometimes follow the most mundane of motives. During the mid-1990s, the giant Disney Corporation became concerned that its 1928 copyright on Mickey Mouse was close to expiration. Deploying heavy lobbying efforts, it persuaded Congress to pass … Continue reading
Posted in Science/Technology, UnzColumn
Tagged Science/Technology, Unz.org
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Unz on China: Debating the “Clark-Unz Model”
As an individual who often regrets his decades-old defection from the academic community, I was remarkably pleased to see anthropologist Peter Frost very generously discuss my recent China article under the rubric “the Clark-Unz Model.” The senior researcher identified is obviously economist … Continue reading
Posted in Meritocracy, Science/Technology, UnzColumn
Tagged China, Chinese Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, IQ, Meritocracy, Science/Technology
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Unz on China: Chinese Eugenics?
In modern American society, few terms carry the negative and socially disreputable ring of “eugenics,” first coined by Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton and later widely advocated by Margaret Sanger, America’s founding mother of birth control and abortion. Denouncing one’s opponents … Continue reading
Posted in Science/Technology, UnzColumn
Tagged China, Chinese Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, IQ, Science/Technology
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A Minimum Wage Hike as Amnesty-Killer?
My Friday Aspen Institute panel in DC on raising the minimum wage went well, though the discussion underscored the somewhat insular thinking of many of the policy elites who dominate life in our capital city. As an example, although the audience … Continue reading
Posted in Economics/Finance, Immigration/Race, UnzColumn
Tagged Economics/Finance, Immigration/Race, Minimum Wage
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