The Unz Review: Ron Unz's Articles

Mar 02 2025 25 ep. 72 mins 173

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A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media

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American Pravda: Political Conspiracies and the French Revolution, by Ron Unz

Mar 02 2025 54 mins

A few weeks ago I published a long article on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, reviewing the available evidence on that notorious document of the very early twentieth century and attempting to evaluate its credibility and provenance. My ultimate verdict was rather hum-drum. I concluded that the work was likely fictional, but probably...

American Pravda: Guilt by Association for Elon Musk's DOGE, by Ron Unz

Feb 23 2025 56 mins

Although Google Analytics and other standard third-party utilities show how much traffic my own articles on The Unz Review regularly receive, they fail to inform me exactly who is reading my work or how much influence these pieces may have. But every now and then a burst of external illumination suggests that at least some...

American Pravda: RFK Jr. and Our Public Health Disasters, by Ron Unz

Feb 16 2025 115 mins

On Thursday the full Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). This gave Kennedy full authority over one of America's largest government bureaucracies, including its 90,000 employees and an annual budget of nearly $2 trillion, twice that of the Department of Defense. Ironies abounded in that...

American Pravda: Charles A. Lindbergh and the America First Movement, by Ron Unz

Feb 09 2025 117 mins

Although I'd never had much interest in American history when I was young, the name of Charles A. Lindbergh was certainly known to me, with the story of that early pioneering aviator always rating at least a few sentences in my introductory textbooks. I'd vaguely known that Lindbergh had been the first to cross the...

Confucius, DeepSeek, and Why China Would Win a War with the United States, by Ron Unz and Mike Whitney

Feb 01 2025 77 mins

Is the western media even-handed in its coverage of China? And how has this impacted public perception of China in America? Ron Unz---I think the Western media has been overwhelmingly biased against China, a bias that stretches back for decades but has steadily grown worse during the 2010s and especially the last few years. Coverage...

American Pravda: "If Anything Happens to Me...", by Ron Unz

Jan 26 2025 71 mins

Elections have consequences and the remarkable return of Donald Trump to the White House has already led to a flurry of major reversals across numerous policy areas. The weekend newspapers revealed that these now included the longstanding Covid origins debate, which had largely disappeared from the headlines over the last year or two. John Radcliffe,...

American Pravda: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, by Ron Unz

Jan 19 2025 99 mins

Last week I published a long article on the growing global confrontation between China and America, comparing their relative strengths with regard to economic, technological, and military factors. My assessment drew very heavily upon the writings of a retired Chinese business executive named Hua Bin, whose recent posts on his Substack I cited and excerpted....

American Pravda: China vs. America, by Ron Unz

Jan 12 2025 114 mins

Over the last year I gradually became familiar with Chas Freeman, one of America's most distinguished professional diplomats and a longtime expert on China. Despite his illustrious career, he had rarely appeared anywhere in our mainstream media, but once I discovered his interviews on several YouTube channels, I was extremely impressed by the depth of...

Five Years and Thirty Million Deaths, by Ron Unz

Jan 05 2025 95 mins

In recent years the sharp decline in quality of the New York Times has left the Wall Street Journal as America's best major newspaper, a development that no one had expected when Rupert Murdoch purchased that venerable publication in 2007. Over the last couple of years, I've spent fewer and fewer minutes each morning reading...

American Pravda: UFOs, Alien Abductions, and Other Strange Things, by Ron Unz

Dec 29 2024 65 mins

Decades ago I became fully convinced that UFOs were real. I even accepted that past visits to our planet of such space aliens had been the basis for many of the religious myths of different societies all around the world, just as Erich von Däniken had argued in his massive 1971 bestseller Chariots of the...