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The Unz Review •ï¿½An Alternative Media Selection$
A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media

Downloadable EBooks

Given my large volume of writings, now totaling over 1.5 million words over the last three decades, I’m making them all available as freely downloadable eBooks, both in ePub and Mobi/Kindle formats.

The two large collections are the American Pravda series and the Meritocracy collection, each running hundreds of thousands of words. Since a number of individual articles contained within are themselves quite long and substantial, I’m also making these available as stand-alone eBooks as well. Please feel free to redistribute them on forums, other websites, or wherever you wish.

Major Collections

Our American Pravda
And Other Essays in a Historical Counter-Narrative of the Last One Hundred Years
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 680,000 Words

The Myth of American Meritocracy
And Other Essays
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 320,000 Words

Smaller EBooks

American Pravda: Our Covid-19 Catastrophe
Was the Epidemic the Result of Biowarfare Blowback?
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 54,700 Words

The Falsehoods of World War II
Everything You Know About the Second World War Is Wrong
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 30,800 Words

American Pravda: Seeking 9/11 Truth After Twenty Years
Who Attacked America in 2001…and Why?
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 18,800 Words

American Pravda: Jews and Nazis
The Hidden History of the 1930s and 1940s
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 6,800 Words

American Pravda: Holocaust Denial
Analyzing the History of a Controversial Movement
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 17,600 Words

American Pravda: Secrets of Military Intelligence
The Hidden Information in Our Government Archives
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 12,500 Words

American Pravda: The JFK Assassination
The Most Famous Incident of the Twentieth Century?
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 12,800 Words

American Pravda: John McCain, Jeffrey Epstein, and Pizzagate
Our Reigning Political Puppets, Dancing to Invisible Strings
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 6,400 Words

American Pravda: Mossad Assassinations
The JFK Assassination and the 9/11 Attacks?
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 27,300 Words

American Pravda: The ADL in American Society
From the Leo Frank Case to the Present Day
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 7,300 Words

American Pravda: Oddities of the Jewish Religion
The Surprising Elements of Talmudic Judaism
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 7,800 Words

American Pravda: Remembering the Liberty
President Lyndon Johnson and World War III?
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 11,400 Words

American Pravda: Confronting Russia and China
Ukraine, Taiwan, and the Dangers of World War III
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 142,000 Words

American Pravda: Understanding World War II
The Shaping Event of Our Modern World
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 20,500 Words

American Pravda: Giants Silenced by Pygmies
Media Suppression of Our Leading Journalists and Scholars
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 12,200 Words

American Pravda: Vaxxing, AIDS, and Public Health
How Big Pharma Has Been Poisoning America
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 45,000 Words

American Pravda: The Power of Organized Crime
How the Alumni of the Chicago Syndicate Seized Power in California, Corporate America, and the Federal Government
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 13,000 Words

American Pravda: The American Dilemma Revisited
Three Decades of Essays on Race and Ethnicity
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 222,000 Words

Race and Crime in America
The Unspoken Statistical Reality of Urban Crime Over the Last Quarter Century
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 26,700 Words

White Racialism in America, Then and Now
An Intellectual History of the Last One Hundred Years
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 24,900 Words

Immigration, Republicans, and the End of White America
The Sources of America’s Immigration Problems–and a Possible Solution
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 12,200 Words

American Meritocracy Revisited
Elite Admissions, Asian Quotas, and the Free Harvard/Fair Harvard Campaign
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 108,000 Words

The English Wars After Twenty-Five Years
Dismantling Bilingual Education in American Public Schools
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle⬇ • 17,200 Words

Raising American Wages by…Raising American Wages
Resurrecting the Minimum Wage as a National Political Issue
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 80,600 Words

A “Grand Bargain” On Immigration Reform
An Alliance of Pro-Immigrant Democrats and Anti-Immigration Republicans Could Finally Fix Our Broken System
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 4,700 Words

The New American Melting Pot
Essays on Immigration, Affirmative Action, and Bilingual Education, 1994-2001
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 36,000 Words

How Social Darwinism Made Modern China
A Thousand Years of Meritocracy Shaped the Middle Kingdom
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 8,300 Words

The Myth of American Meritocracy
How Corrupt are Ivy League Admissions?
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 26,200 Words

Race, IQ, and Wealth
How Political Bias Distorts the Facts
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 27,100 Words

China’s Rise, America’s Fall
Which Superpower is More Threatened by Its “Extractive Elites”?
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 6,600 Words

The Donald Trump Reality Show
America’s Political System as Laughingstock or Trainwreck
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 10,300 Words

Zionism, Israel, and Palestine
A Century of Conflict Over the Holy Land
EPub Format⬇ • Mobi/Kindle Format⬇ • 184,000 Words

Meritocracy Collection Cover Quotes

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.