THE UNZ REVIEW - An Alternative Media Selection

The quiet cul-de-sacs, neatly trimmed lawns, and endless rows of houses may feel like the most natural expression of American life. But the comfort of suburban living was no accident. It was planned from above. Two Jewish figures—Robert Moses and William Levitt—deliberately engineered this way of life many take for granted to this very day....

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here is no saying yet whether Donald Trump will succeed in negotiating the end of the Ukraine war, or a new era of détente between Washington and Moscow, or new security relations between Russia and the West, or cooperation in the Arctic, or all the goodies to come of reopened trade and investment ties. All...

In the first part of my essay, I outlined how market and competition in the earlier phases of industrial capitalism in the West have given way to monopoly finance capitalism in the pursuit of maximum capitalist profits (a.k.a. shareholder value), as advocated by Peter Thiel, the philosophical godfather of Silicon Valley tech and financial elite...

When in 1492 Christopher Columbus first set foot on American soil, he was not the first European to do so. In 983 Viking explorer Eric the Red reached Greenland, where he established colonies. Somewhat later, a party of Vikings landed in Newfoundland and founded a settlement there. It is rumored that more or less in...

My cousin David, who lived on Shadow Mountain Drive, had thrust a thick paperback into my hand as I was getting into the Nash for the trip back to my grandmother’s house in town. I could not have foreseen how far that seemingly insignificant gift would take me. I got back and got settled and...

Personally, I’m on team “Burn them all.” I mentioned it yesterday, but I didn’t realize the extent to which conservative are claiming that it is illegal to burn the gay flag. It is definitely not illegal to burn a gay flag. All these cases they are linking of people being charged for defacing a gay...

The story I am about to tell began with five key world events in the early years of the twentieth century. These five events occurred in rapid succession between 1913 and 1917 and stand out as especially noteworthy amidst countless other events that failed to budge history by an iota. The five I will name...

This is the third of three articles on how the American Left is remembered, or not, in high school textbook American History. Part III is focused on the roles played by the American Left in working to establish civil and human rights in this country. Read Part I and Part II. Establishing Civil and Human...

Are journalists reporters of fact or manufacturers of consent? Gregory Hood takes on the media establishment, showing how narratives are manufactured — like the New York Times branding Trump’s agenda “far-right,” and NGOs, NPR, and “experts” policing which ideas are permissible. AJAB — All Journos Are Bastards — is the lesson. Jared Taylor joins to...

Mythic Narcissus, depending on his mood while facing his reflection in the pool, may at any moment authorize Kiev hits on Moscow and St. Petersburg with long-range missiles. Alastair Crooke’s remarkable analysis of Trump in the context of myth as geopolitics has left us with much to ponder. There’s no escape from Trump’s “extraordinary ability...