Tag Archives: Immigration/Race

Asian Quotas in the Ivy League? “We See Nothing! Nothing!”

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Ron Unz - 1516 Words

Republished from The Unz Review Last week I was invited to speak at the annual conference of the Education Writers Association, with the topic of my panel being the perspective of Asian-Americans on Affirmative Action policies in college admissions. Despite having the only … Continue reading →

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Does Race Exist? Do Hills Exist?

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Ron Unz - 2217 Words

Republished from The Unz Review Although my own academic background is in theoretical physics, I’m the first to admit that field seems in the doldrums these days compared with human evolutionary biology. The greatest physics discoveries of the last couple of … Continue reading →

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Higher Minimum Wage Would Help Immigrants, Taxpayers

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Ron Unz - 602 Words

Republished from The San Jose Mercury News Millions of California immigrants work in low-wage service industries. They would be among the greatest beneficiaries of our ballot initiative to raise the state minimum wage to $12 per hour. Latinos, many of … Continue reading →

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Raising the Minimum Wage Isn’t an “Anti-Immigrant” Idea

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Ron Unz - 1604 Words

Republished from The Unz Review Simple ideas buoyed by a tidal wave of popular sentiment are difficult to oppose, and subterfuge is one of the favored methods. National support for raising the minimum wage runs between 70% and 75% in … Continue reading →

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The Minimum Wage and Illegal Immigration

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Ron Unz - 1553 Words

Republished from The Unz Review Although our school textbooks claim we live in a democracy or a representative republic, a more accurate formulation might label our polity a “mediocracy.” Our views and votes as well as those of our elected … Continue reading →

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Rightwingers for Higher Wages

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Ron Unz - 1804 Words

Republished from The Unz Review In my last column I had noted that the national debate over poverty and inequality had drawn a peculiar response from mainstream conservatives. Whereas liberals advocated making work pay by raising the minimum wage, their conservative counterparts … Continue reading →

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Open Borders, American Elites, and the Minimum Wage

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Ron Unz - 383 Words

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 →

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Race and Crime in America

Posted on July 20, 2013 by Ron Unz - 7344 Words

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 →

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NR on TNR on Unz on Minimum Wage/Immigration

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Ron Unz - 1702 Words

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 →

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American Pravda: ZeroHedge

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Ron Unz - 787 Words

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 →

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No Immigration Amnesty Without a Minimum Wage Hike

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Ron Unz - 727 Words

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 →

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American Pravda: Barrels of Gunpowder and Sparks

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Ron Unz - 1155 Words

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 →

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Race/IQ: The Jason Richwine Affair

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Ron Unz - 2352 Words

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 →

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Race/IQ Revisited

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Ron Unz - 511 Words

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 →

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A Minimum Wage Hike as Amnesty-Killer?

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Ron Unz - 1800 Words

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 →

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How Social Darwinism Made Modern China

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Ron Unz - 6841 Words

How Social Darwinism Made Modern China The American Conservative, March/April 2013 During the three decades following Deng Xiaoping’s 1978 reforms, China achieved the fastest sustained rate of economic growth in human history, with the resulting 40-fold rise in the size … Continue reading →

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Undoing the Minimization of Wages in America

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Ron Unz - 1469 Words

The front page of this morning’s New York Times carried a story highlighting the growing discontent of working-class Americans whose “wages have floundered” over the last few years despite the “record levels” of corporate profits. Although this discontent may seem somewhat … Continue reading →

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The Minimum Wage, Immigration, and Affirmative Action

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Ron Unz - 2210 Words

Earlier this week Washington Post Columnist Matt Miller published an excellent piece making the case for a large increase in the federal minimum wage, including arguments drawn from a wide range of prominent business and political figures, as well as … Continue reading →

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Unz on Meritocracy: David Brooks’ Sidney Award and Other Reactions

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Ron Unz - 694 Words

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 →

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Statistics Indicate an Ivy League Asian Quota

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Ron Unz - 464 Words

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 →

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The Myth of American Meritocracy

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Ron Unz - 22574 Words

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 →

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Two Decades of Analysis on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Ron Unz - 429 Words

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 →

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Unz on Race/IQ: The Entire Series and Debate

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Ron Unz - 842 Words

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 →

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Unz on Race/IQ: Super-Flynn Effects in Germans, Jews, and Hispanics

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Ron Unz - 1060 Words

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 →

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Unz on Hispanic Crime: A Postscript

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Ron Unz - 1084 Words

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 →

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