Ron Unz
How former New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade shifted global opinion on the credibility of ‘farfetched’ Wuhan lab leak theory
From early 2020 onward, the mainstream narrative had been that the virus was completely natural, and anyone who suggested that ...
About bats and COVID: Why the Wuhan ‘lab leak’ theory shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand, and other reflections one year into the crisis
Winston Churchill famously observed that in wartime the truth must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. Many of my ...
Genetics of ‘race’ unequivocal, only seems controversial because post-modernists, PC media dissimulate
Nicholas Wade’s "A Troublesome Inheritance" has come under attack in some circles because it acknowledges what is an unarguable fact ...
Jason Richwine affair raises prickly policy issues on IQ
The firing of Jason Richwine from the Heritage Foundation for his controversial 2009 thesis on race and IQ reflects poorly ...
Gay germ censorship
The following is an excerpt. The notion of a Gay Germ—homosexuality transmitted as some sort of infection—probably horrifies many mainstream ...
The great gay showdown: Genes vs. germs
Ron Unz, former businessman and conservative political activist, blasts through two rival explanations for homosexuality: the Gay Gene hypothesis and ...
Chinese eugenics?
The following is an excerpt. In modern American society, few terms carry the negative and socially disreputable ring of “eugenics,” ...
Meritocracy: How social Darwinism made modern China
What role does DNA play in nation building? Can hundreds of years of natural selection provide the genetic basis for ...
Racial quotas, Harvard, and the legacy of Bakke
The following is an excerpt. For almost 35 years, college-admissions decisions in America have been governed by the continuing legacy ...
Race and intelligence
There is no more explosive issue in human genetics than the issue of race and IQ. Ron Unz, a leading ...