Our American Pravda
And Other Essays in a Historical Counter-Narrative of the Last One Hundred Years
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 485,000 Words

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(Provided to the previous 2016 Meritocracy Collection, which also contained the earliest of these articles)

With high intelligence, common sense, and advanced statistical skills, presented transparently and accessibly, Ron Unz has for decades been addressing key issues in a rapidly changing America, enlightening us on the implications and effects of bilingual programs in American schools, clarifying the issues around crime and immigration so often distorted in political and popular discussion, placing the question of an increased minimum wage effectively on the national agenda, and addressing most provocatively the issue of affirmative action and admission to selective colleges and universities, revealing some aspects of this ever disputed question that have never been noted or discussed publicly before. He is one of our most valuable discussants and analysts of public issues.—Nathan Glazer, Professor Emeritus of Education and Sociology, Harvard University, and author of Beyond the Melting Pot.

Few people on the planet are smarter than Ron Unz or have more intellectual curiosity. This fascinating and provocative collection of essays explores a remarkable range of topics, many of them high profile, some of them arcane. Unz’s analysis is always serious and invariably challenges prevailing wisdoms, which is to say there are a lot of controversial arguments in this book. No one is likely to agree with every one of his conclusions, but we would be better off if there were more people like Ron Unz among us. —John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and author of The Israel Lobby.

Ron Unz is a brilliant essayist. His interests run from ancient history and black holes to contemporary issues like racial quotas and the minimum wage. He moves swiftly to the heart of a subject with cogent analysis and limpid argument. This collection of essays sparkles with unexpected gems ranging from critiques of the mainstream press to appreciation of dissenters from common wisdom such as General Bill Odom and Alexander Cockburn. In every paragraph of these essays the reader enjoys a penetrating intelligence at work. —Nicholas Wade, former writer and editor for The New York Times, and author of Before the Dawn, The Faith Instinct, and A Troublesome Inheritance.

Over the past two decades as an original thinker and writer Ron Unz has tackled complex and significant subjects such as immigration, education, economics, race, and the press, pushing aside common assumptions. This book brings together in one volume these pieces from a variety of publications. Unlike other essayists on culture and politics, Unz shreds ideology and relies on statistical data to support his often groundbreaking ideas, such as his 2010 essay on “The Myth of Hispanic Crime.” And his 2014 efforts to put a $12 an hour minimum wage bill before California voters is an example of how the action of an individual can draw public attention to an issue he believes is necessary for the economic health of the Republic. Anyone reading this book will learn a great deal about America from an incisive writer and scholar who has peeled back layers of conventional wisdom to expose the truth on issues of prime importance today. —Sydney Schanberg, Pulitzer-Prize winning former reporter and editor for The New York Times, whose story inspired the 1984 film The Killing Fields.

Provocative and fearless, sometimes infuriating, and quite often, persuasive. And when American’s low-wage workers get their coming big raise, the apostate conservative Ron Unz will deserve a decent share of the credit. —Prof. James K. Galbraith, author of The End of Normal and Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe.

Contents

Preface

The Life and Legacy of Lt. Gen. William Odom
The American Conservative • September 8, 2008 • 2,500 Words
American Pravda: Was Rambo Right?
The American Conservative • May 25, 2010 • 1,300 Words
China’s Rise, America’s Fall
The American Conservative • April 17, 2012 • 6,600 Words
Chinese Melamine and American Vioxx: A Comparison
The American Conservative • April 17, 2012 • 1,800 Words
The Myth of American Meritocracy
The American Conservative • November 28, 2012 • 26,200 Words
Our American Pravda
The American Conservative • April 29, 2013 • 4,500 Words
American Pravda: Who Shot Down Flight MH17 in Ukraine?
The Unz Review • August 14, 2014 • 1,600 Words
John McCain: When “Tokyo Rose” Ran for President
The Unz Review • March 9, 2015 • 4,200 Words

The Legacy of Sydney Schanberg
The Unz Review • July 13, 2016 • 3,500 Words
Relying Upon Maoist Professors of Cultural Studies
The Unz Review • July 18, 2016 • 1,900 Words
Will There be a Spotlight Sequel to The Killing Fields?
The Unz Review • July 25, 2016 • 2,700 Words
Mass Deaths and Morning Newspapers
The Unz Review • August 1, 2016 • 1,700 Words
Did the US Plan a Nuclear First Strike Against Russia in the Early 1960s?
The Unz Review • August 15, 2016 • 2,500 Words
Was General Patton Assassinated?
The Unz Review • August 22, 2016 • 2,400 Words
Alexander Cockburn and the British Spies
The Unz Review • August 29, 2016 • 2,700 Words
How the CIA Invented “Conspiracy Theories”
The Unz Review • September 5, 2016 • 2,600 Words
The KKK and Mass Racial Killings
The Unz Review • September 19, 2016 • 3,200 Words
The Destruction of TWA Flight 800
The Unz Review • September 26, 2016 • 2,800 Words
Breaching the Media Barrier
The Unz Review • October 24, 2016 • 2,500 Words

The Remarkable Historiography of David Irving
The Unz Review • June 4, 2018 • 1,700 Words
When Stalin Almost Conquered Europe
The Unz Review • June 4, 2018 • 4,200 Words
Our Great Purge of the 1940s
The Unz Review • June 11, 2018 • 5,500 Words
The JFK Assassination, Part I – What Happened?
The Unz Review • June 18, 2018 • 4,800 Words
The JFK Assassination, Part II – Who Did It?
The Unz Review • June 25, 2018 • 8,000 Words
Our Deadly World of Post-War Politics
The Unz Review • July 2, 2018 • 5,700 Words
Post-War France and Post-War Germany
The Unz Review • July 9, 2018 • 6,600 Words
Oddities of the Jewish Religion
The Unz Review • July 16, 2018 • 7,800 Words
The Bolshevik Revolution and Its Aftermath
The Unz Review • July 23, 2018 • 6,900 Words
The Nature of Anti-Semitism
The Unz Review • July 30, 2018 • 5,500 Words
Jews and Nazis
The Unz Review • August 6, 2018 • 6,800 Words
Holocaust Denial
The Unz Review • August 27, 2018 • 17,600 Words
9/11 Conspiracy Theories
The Unz Review • September 10, 2018 • 11,000 Words
The ADL in American Society
The Unz Review • October 15, 2018 • 7,300 Words
Racial Discrimination at Harvard
The Unz Review • October 22, 2018 • 10,300 Words

Amazon Book Censorship
The Unz Review • March 11, 2019 • 7,600 Words
How Hitler Saved the Allies
The Unz Review • May 13, 2019 • 8,300 Words
Secrets of Military Intelligence
The Unz Review • June 10, 2019 • 12,500 Words
The Power of Organized Crime
The Unz Review • July 15, 2019 • 13,000 Words
John McCain, Jeffrey Epstein, and Pizzagate
The Unz Review • July 29, 2019 • 6,400 Words
Understanding World War II
The Unz Review • September 23, 2019 • 20,500 Words

Mossad Assassinations
The Unz Review • January 27, 2020 • 27,300 Words
Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?
The Unz Review • April 21, 2020 • 7,400 Words
White Racialism in America, Then and Now
The Unz Review • October 5, 2020 • 24,900 Words
Our Disputed Election
The Unz Review • January 14, 2021 • 2,000 Words
Covid-19, Its Impact and Origins After One Year
The Unz Review • March 15, 2021 • 8,700 Words
American Pravda: “The Truth” and “The Whole Truth” About the Origins of Covid-19
The Unz Review • May 10, 2021 • 6,400 Words
American Pravda: George Orwell’s Virus Lab-Leak
The Unz Review • May 31, 2021 • 5,200 Words
American Pravda: Covid Epidemic as Lab-Leak or Biowarfare?
The Unz Review • July 12, 2021 • 13,100 Words
American Pravda: Waging Biological Warfare
The Unz Review • August 9, 2021 • 7,500 Words
American Pravda: Seeking 9/11 Truth After Twenty Years
The Unz Review • September 7, 2021 • 7,800 Words
American Pravda: Remembering the Liberty
The Unz Review • October 18, 2021 • 11,400 Words
American Pravda: Giants Silenced by Pygmies
The Unz Review • November 22, 2021 • 12,200 Words
American Pravda: Vaxxing, Anthony Fauci, and AIDS
The Unz Review • December 6, 2021 • 6,100 Words
American Pravda: Confronting Covid Crimestop
The Unz Review • December 13, 2021 • 6,400 Words
American Pravda: AIDS and the Revival of the Duesberg Hypothesis
The Unz Review • December 29, 2021 • 4,100 Words

American Pravda: Our Public Health Problems
The Unz Review • January 10, 2022 • 5,500 Words
American Pravda: Anne Frank, Sirhan Sirhan, and AIDS
The Unz Review • January 31, 2022 • 3,600 Words
American Pravda: Putin as Hitler?
The Unz Review • March 7, 2022 • 7,900 Words
American Pravda: Alex Jones, Cass Sunstein, and “Cognitive Infiltration”
The Unz Review • August 8, 2022 • 5,400 Words
American Pravda: Of Pipelines and Plagues
The Unz Review • October 3, 2022 • 3,900 Words
American Pravda: World War III and World War II?
The Unz Review • October 24, 2022 • 4,700 Words
American Pravda: Elon Musk, Kanye West, and Much Riskier Targets
The Unz Review • November 21, 2022 • 3,800 Words
American Pravda: Lost Histories of the Great War
The Unz Review • November 28, 2022 • 8,100 Words
American Pravda: An Authorized Political History of the 1960s and 1970s
The Unz Review • December 5, 2022 • 10,000 Words
American Pravda: Major Mysteries of the 1990s
The Unz Review • December 12, 2022 • 8,800 Words
American Pravda: The JFK Assassination and the Covid Cover-Up
The Unz Review • December 19, 2022 • 6,900 Words

American Pravda: Vaccines and the Mystery of Polio
The Unz Review • January 30, 2023 • 7,200 Words • 54m ▶
American Pravda: The Leo Frank Case and the Origins of the ADL
The Unz Review • March 27, 2023 • 5,300 Words • 38m ▶
American Pravda: The Limits of Media Corruption
The Unz Review • May 22, 2023 • 3,400 Words • 25m ▶
Ten Years of American Pravda and The Unz Review
The Unz Review • June 5, 2023 • 6,500 Words • 57m ▶
Why Everything You Know About World War II Is Wrong
The Unz Review • June 12, 2023 • 12,600 Words • 1h37m ▶
More Falsehoods of World War II
The Unz Review • June 19, 2023 • 7,500 Words • 58m ▶
American Pravda: Harvard, Racial Discrimination, and Holocaust Denial
The Unz Review • June 26, 2023 • 5,500 Words • 43m ▶
Hitler, Churchill, the Holocaust, and the War in Ukraine
The Unz Review • July 17, 2023 • 9,700 Words • 1h15m ▶
American Pravda: Donald Trump, Eugene Debs, and AMLO
The Unz Review • August 7, 2023 • 4,900 Words • 37m ▶
American Pravda: Why the Media Fears RFK Jr.
The Unz Review • August 14, 2023 • 8,200 Words • 1h3m ▶
American Pravda: The Rise of the BRICS and the Fall of the USSA?
The Unz Review • September 4, 2023 • 3,300 Words • 25m ▶
American Pravda: Remembering the 9/11 Truth Movement
The Unz Review • September 11, 2023 • 9,800 Words • 1h13m ▶
Elon Musk and the True History of the ADL
The Unz Review • September 13, 2023 • 6,900 Words • 52m ▶
American Pravda: Mutually-Assured Political Destruction
The Unz Review • September 18, 2023 • 7,700 Words • 59m ▶
American Pravda: The Forgotten Anthrax Attacks
The Unz Review • October 17, 2023 • 10,100 Words • 1h19m ▶
American Pravda: Israel, Gaza, and Broader Issues
The Unz Review • October 23, 2023 • 11,000 Words • 1h23m ▶
American Pravda: War Crimes and Atrocity-Hoaxes in the Israel/Gaza Conflict
The Unz Review • November 6, 2023 • 6,400 Words • 50m ▶
American Pravda: Gaza and the Antisemitism Hoax
The Unz Review • November 27, 2023 • 9,000 Words • 1h12m ▶
American Pravda: The Nakba and the Holocaust
The Unz Review • December 11, 2023 • 14,600 Words • 1h53m ▶

American Pravda: Israel and the Holocaust Hoax
The Unz Review • January 8, 2024 • 8,200 Words • 1h4m ▶
American Pravda: Gaza, Jewish Power, and the Holocaust
The Unz Review • February 19, 2024 • 10,400 Words • 1h23m ▶
American Pravda: The Rwandan Genocide
The Unz Review • March 4, 2024 • 7,400 Words • 56m ▶
American Pravda: Samantha Power, R2P, and the Politics of Genocide
The Unz Review • March 25, 2024 • 7,900 Words • 1h ▶
The Transformation of Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
The Unz Review • April 1, 2024 • 6,800 Words • 53m ▶
The Bibliography for an Alternative Historical Narrative
The Unz Review • April 5, 2024 • 7,900 Words
American Pravda: Gaza Protests and the Legend of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
The Unz Review • May 13, 2024 • 8,700 Words • 1h7m ▶
American Pravda: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in San Bernardino
The Unz Review • May 20, 2024 • 5,900 Words • 45m ▶
American Pravda: The True Origin of the Jews as Khazars, Israelites, or Canaanites
The Unz Review • May 27, 2024 • 12,900 Words • 1h40m ▶
American Pravda: Laminated Mouse-Brains and the Magic of AI
The Unz Review • June 10, 2024 • 15,000 Words • 1h58m ▶
American Pravda: JFK, LBJ, and Our Great National Shame
The Unz Review • June 24, 2024 • 10,200 Words • 1h15m ▶
American Pravda: JFK, Richard Nixon, the CIA, and Watergate
The Unz Review • July 9, 2024 • 16,700 Words • 2h7m ▶
American Pravda: Richard Nixon and the Jews
The Unz Review • July 22, 2024 • 6,600 Words • 49m ▶
American Pravda: Hamas, Nazis, and the Right to Rape
The Unz Review • August 12, 2024 • 7,300 Words • 56m ▶
American Pravda: A Rising China Faces the West
The Unz Review • August 19, 2024 • 9,600 Words • 1h18m ▶
American Pravda: YouTube Censorship and the Curious Case of Candace Owens
The Unz Review • August 26, 2024 • 6,700 Words • 51m ▶
American Pravda: October 7th and September 11th
The Unz Review • September 9, 2024 • 11,200 Words • 1h25m ▶
American Pravda: Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper, and Holocaust Denial
The Unz Review • September 16, 2024 • 15,400 Words • 1h57m ▶
American Pravda: Michael Collins Piper, Miles Mathis, and Proving Pi=4
The Unz Review • October 14, 2024 • 11,600 Words • 1h29m ▶
American Pravda: The Total Madness of the State of Israel
The Unz Review • October 21, 2024 • 5,600 Words • 42m ▶
American Pravda: Is Sugar the Deadliest White Powder Drug?
The Unz Review • October 28, 2024 • 5,900 Words • 45m ▶
American Pravda: The Racial Roots of China’s Rise
The Unz Review • November 4, 2024 • 13,300 Words • 1h41m ▶
American Pravda: Piers Morgan, Dan Bilzerian, and Holocaust Denial
The Unz Review • November 18, 2024 • 5,100 Words • 38m ▶
American Pravda: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the HIV/AIDS Hoax
The Unz Review • November 25, 2024 • 7,800 Words • 1h ▶
American Pravda: Dangerous Foods
The Unz Review • December 2, 2024 • 10,800 Words • 1h20m ▶
American Pravda: Propaganda-Hoaxes vs. Chinese Reality
The Unz Review • December 16, 2024 • 6,700 Words • 49m ▶