Last December, 100-year-old Jimmy Carter died after lingering for more than a year in hospice care. This happened as the presidential administration of an old man with dementia was approaching its end. A couple days ago, it was revealed that this feeble old man with brain damage also has aggressive cancer in his prostate and... Read More

I remember when overpopulation was a much-discussed problem in the 1960s and 1970s, during the time when ecological and environmental concerns were growing in prominence in the news and public consciousness. People were becoming increasingly aware that the expanding human population posed serious threats to the natural resources used by our societies, as well as... Read More

During my review of X posts this morning, I noticed a post by a user named Ryan Dawson, who is apparently an author and television personality. (I never heard of him.) Dawson posted a quote that he attributed to the Shawnee chief Tecumseh (1768-1813), reading “When Jesus Christ came to Earth you killed him. The... Read More

Well, one thing on which we might agree is that the Trump shooting incident has seemingly silenced what had been increasingly loud calls for Biden to withdraw from the presidential race. Yes, the feeble old man still has dementia—and that is still obviously a rather serious problem for America. However, the American media and people,... Read More

It’s fascinating to watch the various corporate mass media “news” outlets, such as CNN and The New York Times, pretend like they’ve suddenly discovered that Joe Biden has dementia, rather than just the “stutter” that they have been claiming for years. These “journalistic” organizations had previously been colluding with the Democrat Party to cover up... Read More

I remember, from when I was studying biology at the University of Illinois in the early 1980s, a genetics professor talking to our class about Jews and Palestinians. I recall him sharing his view with us that the conflict between these two groups of people—each violently fighting for their perceived religious, cultural, and biological identities—was... Read More

The word “racist” is flung around a lot these days, to the point where it may seem to have little or no meaning. And the people flinging the word around seem to keep changing its meaning, so nobody knows what they’re really talking about. But I believe that the above definitions are pretty accurate, logical,... Read More

I’ve been submitting my essays to The Unz Review since February. Ron has been nice enough to publish them, and I have appreciated the opportunity to get my ideas out on this popular platform. I think this is a great site that is refreshingly open to alternative, non-establishment perspectives. I consider it a haven for... Read More

When I was a young guy in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I laughed when the Iranian revolutionaries condemned the United States as “The Great Satan.” America was the land of freedom, democracy, and Ronald Reagan, right? What the heck were those insane Islamists shouting about? Well, hell, I’m not laughing anymore. Over the... Read More

When I was a teenager in the mid-1970s, I considered myself to be an environmentalist. I wanted to protect natural habitats and wildlife because I loved them and I was interested in them. Those positive feelings had been inspired by my own experiences with nature and animals, as well as by Marlin Perkins’ Wild Kingdom... Read More

About a year-and-a-half ago, a man named Vincent commented on one of my YouTube political music videos by posting, “You wrote a GREAT letter of resignation to that ridiculous, feckless university. You’re another Thomas Paine. I salute you, sir!” The video, titled “Take Your Mask and Your Vax (and Shove ‘em Where the Sun Don’t... Read More

I never used to think much about the races or ethnicities of people 20 or 30 years ago. I’ve always just looked at people as individuals. But within the past several years, I find that I am constantly bombarded with race, in the news, in TV commercials, in product displays at stores, in conversations with... Read More

So, the past few years of America’s dark descent have come down to this? After the manufactured hysteria and authoritarian power grabs of COVID, after the fraudulent presidential election of 2020, amid the continuing persecution of hundreds of January 6 protestors, and amid the continuing censorship, warmongering, political and financial corruption, racial and gender obsessions,... Read More

Consider the humble doughnut, generally a ring or flattened sphere of fried dough topped or filled with sugary or fruity flavoring. These sweet, satisfying bakery products have been created and enjoyed for centuries in various forms. Then in the mid-1900s, a big U.S. corporation called Dunkin’ Donuts became very successful by selling what can best... Read More

I was born in Chicago in 1960, and I’ve lived in the same region all my life. But I find myself wondering every day now, “Where the hell am I? Is this really America?” It seems to me that the United States of America—including its government, its big corporations, and even its population—has purposefully set... Read More

I recall that when I was attending St. Albert the Great elementary school in Burbank, Illinois, during the mid-to-late 1960s and early 1970s, some of the history teachers used to tell us that the United States had never lost a war. Keep in mind that this was while the foolish American fiasco in Vietnam was... Read More