Category Archives: Published

The Problem with Bilingual Education

Posted on October 27, 2002 by Ron Unz - 194 Words

“The Problem with Bilingual Education,” by Ron Unz New York Times (Letters), Sunday, October 27, 2002 In his defense of bilingual education programs (“The Voters’ Prerogatives and Bilingual Education,” Lessons column, Oct. 23), Richard Rothstein implies that previous generations of … Continue reading →

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Got English?

Posted on September 14, 2002 by Ron Unz - 4257 Words

Got English? by Ron Unz vs. Gully Stanford Denver Rocky Mountain News, Saturday, September 14, 2002 Amendment 31 would transform how students who don’t speak English are educated in Colorado, requiring that they take special classes taught in English. Some of them … Continue reading →

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Taking Stock

Posted on August 25, 2002 by Ron Unz - 874 Words

“Taking Stock” by Ron Unz The Los Angeles Times, Sunday, August 25th, 2002 PALO ALTO—Regulators looking at how stock options are accounted for have seen cause for concern. I see opportunity. It’s true that when actual expenses don’t appear on an … Continue reading →

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Initiatives have broad-based support

Posted on August 24, 2002 by Ron Unz - 312 Words

Initiatives have broad-based support by Ron Unz Denver Post (Letters), Sunday, August 25, 2002 Re ‘The Millionaire’s Club; Why leave ballot initiatives to the rich?’ Aug. 18 Perspective. I must respond to Daniel A. Smith’s rather ignorant piece criticizing our … Continue reading →

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Options and Perpetual Motion

Posted on August 15, 2002 by Ron Unz - 296 Words

Options and Perpetual Motion by Ron Unz Wall Street Journal (Letters), Thursday, August 15, 2002 In his Aug. 8 editorial page commentary, “The Real Value of Options,” Harvey Golub, the former CEO of American Express, argued that the issuance of stock options … Continue reading →

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Bilingual Ignorance

Posted on June 16, 2002 by Ron Unz - 270 Words

Bilingual Ignorance, by Ron Unz Orange County Register (Letters), Sunday, June 16, 2002 I must take issue with the ignorant and rather insulting tone of Yvette Cabrera’s column on the subject of bilingualism. Ms. Cabrera wrongly characterizes me as an … Continue reading →

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Sharonism vs. Building a Wall

Posted on April 28, 2002 by Ron Unz - 1589 Words

Sharonism vs. Building a Wall by Ron Unz Sacramento Bee, Sunday, April 28, 2002 Any attempt to resolve the crisis in the Middle East forces us — the American people and American Jewry — to appraise the motives and the … Continue reading →

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Not Unfair

Posted on January 28, 2002 by Ron Unz - 175 Words

Not Unfair by Ron Unz National Review (Letters), January 28, 2002 In his review of William McGowan’s fine book, Coloring the News (Dec. 31), John Corry claims that the media coverage of California’s Proposition 227 was grossly unfair, and that the L.A. … Continue reading →

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Israel’s Future: Kachism or Nothing – Commentary

Posted on January 1, 2002 by Ron Unz - 552 Words

Israel’s Future: Kachism or Nothing by Ron Unz Commentary (Letters, Abridged), January 2002 As someone whose grandparents helped to found the modern State of Israel, I experienced a feeling of immense sadness after reading Norman Podhoretz’s powerful analysis of the current post-Oslo … Continue reading →

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Will Riordan Run on “English”? – Sacramento Bee

Posted on December 23, 2001 by Ron Unz - 987 Words

Will Riordan Run on “English”? by Ron Unz Sacramento Bee, Sunday, December 23, 2001 As former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan gears up for his campaign to challenge Gov. Gray Davis, he faces some serious obstacles. First, no incumbent California governor has … Continue reading →

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Rounding Up Arabs, Blacks, and Jews – Salon.com

Posted on December 6, 2001 by Ron Unz - 1071 Words

Rounding Up Arabs, blacks, and Jews by Ron Unz Salon.com, Thursday, December 6, 2001 Dec. 6, 2001—In the wake of the Sept. 11th attacks, Americans are debating whether we should adopt ethnic profiling policies that may ensnare thousands of innocent people—Arabs and … Continue reading →

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Patriotism and Idiocy

Posted on November 26, 2001 by Ron Unz - 263 Words

Patriotism and Idiocy by Ron Unz New Republic (Letters), November 26, 2001 Given the all-encompassing focus of TNR and every other major media outlet on the very real Terrorism War, I suppose I should be grateful that a recent column of … Continue reading →

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Artificial Cloning

Posted on October 26, 2001 by Ron Unz - 389 Words

Artificial Cloning by Ron Unz Reason Online, Friday, October 26, 2001 The general debate: http://www.reason.com/bioresearch/bioresearch.html First, we should realize that a “clone” is simply the scientific name for an identical twin, which has been a rare though perfectly natural part of humanity since … Continue reading →

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Rocks Falling Upward at Harvard University

Posted on October 26, 2001 by Ron Unz - 786 Words

Rocks Falling Upward at Harvard University by Ron Unz National Review Online, Friday, October 26, 2001 While most Americans have been transfixed by the terrifying prospect of massive deaths from anthrax or suicide bombers, a few in our society fear an even … Continue reading →

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Own money not spent

Posted on July 22, 2001 by Ron Unz - 210 Words

Own Money Not Spent by Ron Unz Denver Post (Letters), Sunday, July 22, 2001 Re: “Teaching decision for sale,” Kevin Welner guest commentary July 15. Since Welner is employed as a professor of bilingual education, I found his defense of that failed … Continue reading →

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The Bilingual Burden of Republican Guilt – WSJ

Posted on May 24, 2001 by Ron Unz - 1395 Words

The Bilingual Burden of Republican Guilt by Ron Unz Wall Street Journal, Thursday, May 24, 2001 Just a few years ago, congressional Republicans overwhelmingly supported proposals to expel a million or more Hispanic children from American public schools. Now, perhaps in a … Continue reading →

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Trimming the Emperor’s New Clothes – NRO

Posted on May 22, 2001 by Ron Unz - 753 Words

Trimming the Emperor’s New Clothes by Ron Unz National Review Online, Tuesday, May 22, 2001 Given the landslide victories of ballot measures to dismantle bilingual education in California and Arizona, national media coverage of the dramatic rise in subsequent test scores, and … Continue reading →

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War Crimes vs. Thought Crimes

Posted on May 4, 2001 by Ron Unz - 1169 Words

War Crimes vs. Thought Crimes by Ron Unz National Review Online, Friday, May 4, 2001 Former Senator Bob Kerrey is fortunate indeed that the charges recently leveled against him are merely that he committed war crimes and not any far more devastating … Continue reading →

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Bilingual Education Lives On

Posted on March 2, 2001 by Ron Unz - 662 Words

Bilingual Education Lives On by Ron Unz New York Times, Friday, March 2, 2001 PALO ALTO, Calif.—In 1974, the New York City Board of Education signed a federal consent decree with Aspira, a Hispanic education and advocacy group, requiring that students who … Continue reading →

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Ballots for Dollars

Posted on February 27, 2001 by Ron Unz - 602 Words

Ballots for Dollars by Ron Unz Go ahead, spend lots of cash. You’ll still lose. National Review (Online), Tuesday, February 27, 2001 Yesterday, the National Association of Bilingual Educators concluded its 2001 annual national convention in Phoenix on a desperate note. According … Continue reading →

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Darwinian Evolution

Posted on February 1, 2001 by Ron Unz - 302 Words

Darwinian Evolution by Ron Unz The American Spectator (Letters), February 2001 I was absolutely appalled by your current cover story attacking the Darwinian theory of evolution. I am a conservative. I support traditional social values and maintaining the crucial role of … Continue reading →

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Above the Law in Arizona? – NRO

Posted on January 12, 2001 by Ron Unz - 673 Words

Above the Law in Arizona? by Ron Unz Some kind of conservative National Review (Online), January 12, 2001 In recent years, Republicans have regularly charged that liberal Democrats tend only to enforce those laws that they support and ignore those laws they … Continue reading →

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Vouchers

Posted on January 1, 2001 by Ron Unz - 341 Words

Vouchers by Ron Unz Letters, City Journal (Letters), Winter 2001 I very much appreciated the excellent article by Howard Husock, describing the dreadful failure of our system of public housing vouchers. Mr. Husock convincingly suggests that an ideological fixation with naive “free market … Continue reading →

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Support English Immersion Instead

Posted on December 25, 2000 by Ron Unz - 206 Words

Support English Immersion Instead by Ron Unz New York Times (Letters), December 25, 2000 I agree with the general sentiments of “Repairing Bilingual Education” (editorial, Dec. 22), but you are wrong to recommend reforming the system in New York City rather than … Continue reading →

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Dishonest Campaign Reform is Worse Than None

Posted on October 1, 2000 by Ron Unz - 774 Words

Dishonest Campaign Reform is Worse Than None by Ron Unz Los Angeles Times, Sunday, October 1, 2000 For the first time in living memory, California’s entire diverse galaxy of campaign finance reform groups has united behind a single ballot measure campaign. Surprisingly, this reform … Continue reading →

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