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Author Archives: Ron Unz
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
Posted in Immigration/Race, UnzColumn
Tagged Hispanic Crime, Immigration/Race
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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.
Posted in Immigration/Race, UnzColumn
Tagged Immigration/Race, IQ, Race/IQ
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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
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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
Posted in Science/Technology, UnzColumn
Tagged Science/Technology, Unz.org
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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
Posted in Immigration/Race, UnzColumn
Tagged Immigration/Race, IQ, Race/IQ
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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
Posted in Immigration/Race, UnzColumn
Tagged Immigration/Race, IQ, Race/IQ
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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
Unz on Race/IQ: The Rural/Urban Divide
As I have recently mentioned to several people, I had been aware of the large anomalies and logical inconsistencies in the Lynn/Vanhanen IQ model for nearly a decade, and had repeatedly pointed them out on various Internet discussion forums. But … Continue reading
Unz on Race/IQ – Rejecting the Ostrich Response
The central finding of my recent article “Race, IQ, and Wealth” was a simple one. Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen today rank as perhaps the world’s leading academic advocates of the theory that the innate IQ of a given nation … Continue reading
The East Asian Exception to Socio-Economic IQ Influences
Sidebar: The East Asian Exception to Socio-Economic IQ Influences by Ron Unz The American Conservative, August 2012 In “Race, IQ, and Wealth,” I examined the pattern of IQ scores for various European peoples as presented by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration/Race, Published
Tagged American Conservative, Immigration/Race, IQ, Major Item, Race/IQ
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Race, IQ, and Wealth
Race, IQ, and Wealth by Ron Unz What the Facts Tell Us About a Taboo Subject The American Conservative, August 2012 At the end of April, Charles Kenny, a former World Bank economist specializing in international development, published a blistering attack … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration/Race, Published
Tagged American Conservative, Cover Story, Immigration/Race, IQ, Major Item, Race/IQ
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How I Made Mitt
How I Made Mitt by Ron Unz Romney owes his only win to English for the Children The American Conservative, July 2012 With Mitt Romney now the de facto Republican presidential nominee, I sometimes recall how I inadvertently launched his … Continue reading
Posted in Bilingual Education, Published
Tagged American Conservative, Bilingual Education
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The Mortality Paradox; or, The Health Benefits of Cyanide
In recent weeks my description of the possible scale of the Vioxx Disaster has begun getting a little coverage on the web and in the British press, leading to some strong “push back” by people who say I can’t possibly … Continue reading
Thalidomide II and the Silence of the American Media
A couple of years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Sydney Schanberg, one of America’s most celebrated Vietnam War journalists and a former top editor at the New York Times, explained to me the sad realities of our major newspapers. According to … Continue reading
Robert Caro and the Lost History of the 1960s—Plus a Vioxx Note
The recent publication of the fourth long volume of Robert Caro’s biography of Lyndon Johnson demonstrates how much even the relatively recent printed past has almost totally disappeared from current consciousness. Consider the 1958-1964 period covered by Caro’s current narrative, … Continue reading
“When Half a Million Americans Died and Nobody Noticed”
Such was the provocative title under which Alexander Cockburn ran a recent column discussing my China/America article in The Week, a British-based news magazine which claims a total American print circulation of over 500,000. We’ll see whether anyone notices that column … Continue reading
Announcing the Unz Historical Research Competition, $10,000 First Prize
As some of you already know, I recently released a content-archiving website, www.unz.org, which had absorbed most of my time and effort over the last few years. The website makes freely available a vast quantity of high-quality content material, including … Continue reading
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Tagged Science/Technology, Unz.org
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The Long Decline of The London Economist
Once, long ago, at the very close of the 1970s, I discovered a most remarkable periodical. Published on newsprint so thin as to almost be translucent, mailed out twice each fortnight tightly folded in a plain brown wrapper, it called … Continue reading
Chinese Melamine and American Vioxx: A Comparison
Sidebar: Chinese Melamine and American Vioxx: A Comparison by Ron Unz The American Conservative, May 2012 In contrasting China and America, pundits often cite our free and independent media as one of our greatest strengths, together with the tremendous importance … Continue reading
China’s Rise, America’s Fall
China’s Rise, America’s Fall by Ron Unz Which superpower is more threatened by its “extractive elites”? The American Conservative, May 2012 The rise of China surely ranks among the most important world developments of the last 100 years. With America … Continue reading
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Tagged American Conservative, China, China/America, Cover Story, Major Item, Vioxx
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Unz on the Minimum Wage – Bloomberg Editors Say “Let’s Make a Deal…”
With our chattering classes now totally focused on the overriding question of whether the political contributions of Romney’s Wall Street cronies or those of Obama will first reach the billion dollar mark, only a few scattered voices have focused on … Continue reading
Posted in Economics/Finance, UnzColumn
Tagged Economics/Finance, Minimum Wage
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Unz on Immigration – Politics and CNN/Fortune
As everyone is well aware, the last 72 hours have seen an astonishing transformation in the American political landscape, with a pugnacious Newt Gingrich coming from far behind to crush Mitt Romney in South Carolina, and now take a substantial … Continue reading
Posted in Economics/Finance, Immigration/Race, UnzColumn
Tagged Economics/Finance, Immigration/Race, Minimum Wage
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