THE UNZ REVIEW - An Alternative Media Selection

I will respond to the points MacDonald raised in his previous correspondence in the order in which he presented them. Some responses may appear to overlap, but I have sought to address his claims from a wide range of perspectives—particularly those relevant to the Darwinian framework that MacDonald himself endorses in several of his works....

Australia and Britain are on opposite sides of the globe. But mind annihilates distance and the mind of a leading Irish ethicist has recently pondered events in these two widely separated countries. Yes, the Trotskyist libertarian Brendan O’Neill has raised two very interesting questions about two pairs of energetic Muslims, one pair in Australia, the...

First, it was Israel’s right to defend itself. Then it was a war, even though, by Israel’s own military intelligence database, 83 percent of the casualties were civilians. The 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, living under an Israeli air, land and sea blockade, have no army, air force, no mechanized units, no tanks, no navy,...

Shylock, a Jewish moneylender/usurer, is a main character in William Shakespeare’s 16th-century five-acts play “Merchant of Venice”. Antonio, a Venetian merchant, borrowed money from Shylock with a bond stating that if he defaults the loan on time Shylock is entitled to a pound of Antonio’s flesh. Antonio defaulted the loan because his trade ships were...

It is years of dedicated work by the Israel lobby that has ensured the mass murder of Palestinians is viewed by governments, the media and parts of the Jewish community as entirely legitimate I, for one, am struggling to stomach the spew of hypocrisy from pro-Israel groups like the Community Security Trust and its policy...

Dissociated Press One of the nice things about Morocco, I guess, is that I can afford to watch TV. We pay a few dollars a month for an internet-based system with access to countless thousands of channels in every language known to man, with possibly a few extraterrestrial ones thrown in as well, for all...

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder likes to present himself as a civic minded elder statesman, a sober billionaire warning America about a rising tide of antisemitism. At the Israel Hayom Summit on December 2, 2025, he framed the moment as a crisis of the West itself, calling it “a full-scale assault on truth, on...

The European Union presses on with plans to seize Russian assets permanently For over two years, there have been loud and repeated calls for Russia’s immobilised assets in Europe – valued at around $245 billion – to be permanently seized. However, those assets had hitherto been immobilised under EU sanctions which required unanimous agreement every...

Did your engagement ring help fund a genocide in Gaza? Quite possibly. Despite possessing no mines of their own, Israel is a major player in the world’s diamond business, buying up minerals across Africa and selling them to the West, netting billions in the process. Diamonds are Israel’s most important export, and directly bankroll the...

Back when I was in college, more years ago than I'd like to consider, one of my majors was Classical History, and I did quite a lot of original research in that field. Then after I graduated and began my doctoral studies in Theoretical Physics, I took a little time to write up some of...

On March 16 of this year, Reuters published an article titled “Israeli strikes kill 15 people in Gaza over past day, Palestinian medics say”. Does anyone remember the 15 Palestinians who died on March 16, 2025? Does that day stand out in anyone’s memory as particularly significant in terms of mass murder? No? Same here....

Virginia, formerly a proud and distinguished state, is the home of many of the founding fathers of the United States–George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason–has fallen into the hands of people ashamed of Virginia’s proud heritage. The state of Virginia was destroyed by the influx of lobbyists and federal government bureaucrats...

Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it reflects a mathematical truth. Interest on earlier interest grows exponentially, outrunning the linear growth of revenue and eventually consuming everything. That is where the United States now stands. The government...

There are very few problems facing America that are actually hard to solve. However, our system’s so-called strengths, not least “civil society” and the independent judiciary, are in the way of common sense solutions. If we want policies that most Americans support, such as the enforcement of immigration laws and the long-term imprisonment or execution...

German chancellor Frederick Mertz warns that Russia’s President Putin will not stop waging war if Ukraine falls, and he is sending German soldiers to assist Poland in defense of its borders with Belarus and Kaliningrad. Meanwhile, the European Union debates seizing Russia’s illegally frozen assets. If Europe fears a Russian invasion, why provoke it by...

For decades, support for Israel functioned as one of Washington’s few unchallenged orthodoxies. That consensus is now cracking, and the fracture line runs straight through the American youth electorate. The latest findings from the Yale Youth Poll confirm that a generational realignment is well underway, one that cuts across party lines and increasingly places Israel...

What looked at first like a bizarre local accident in western Norway should have set off every alarm bell in Europe. In April 2025, someone remotely seized control of a hydroelectric dam in Bremanger, opened its floodgates, and let millions of cubic meters of water roar downstream for hours. Only months later did Norway’s intelligence...

Unless President Trump reverses course, the “Lower Prices Bigger Paychecks” banner that hung behind him at his “affordability” speech this month will be remembered as being to economic policy what President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” banner was to foreign policy. According to a Politico poll, many Americans are having difficulty paying for food, housing,...

This is not a creation of Hitler or Goebbels, let alone Mussolini, who was not an anti-Semite and whose first mistress, Margherita Sarfatti, was Jewish. It is a bull published by Pope Paul IV on July 14, 1555, i.e., in the middle of the Renaissance and not in the darkness of the Middle Ages. This...

Two shooters attacked a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing fifteen people and injuring dozens of others. Police report that the shooters were a father and his son; the father was killed by police, and the son was captured. The shooters appear to have been Muslim, but, much to the inconvenience of...