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Ron Keeva Unz (born September 20, 1961) is a former American businessman. He runs The Unz Review, a website that promotes anti-semitism, Holocaust denial, conspiracy theories, and white supremacist material.[1][2][3] In addition to Unz's own writings, the site has hosted pieces by white supremacist Jared Taylor, among others.
Unz unsuccessfully ran for governor in the California gubernatorial election in 1994. He has sponsored multiple propositions promoting structured English immersion education. He was publisher of The American Conservative from March 2007 to August 2013.
Born in California, to a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant, Unz was raised in a Yiddish-speaking household. His mother, Esther-Laio Avrutin, met his father on an airplane heading for Israel. A professor from the Midwest, he later briefly became her lover when visiting her on a few occasions in Los Angeles. She unilaterally decided to have a child with him, but Unz's father was already married and his wife opened a letter from Avrutin telling him about her pregnancy. She was an anti-war activist, who raised her son as a single mother, but Unz was given his father's surname and soon moved back to her family's home after her son's birth.
Unz has said that his childhood as a fatherless child in a single parent household which was on the dole, was a source of "embarrassment and discomfort". He attended North Hollywood High School and, in his senior year, won first place in the 1979 Westinghouse Science Talent Search. He attended Harvard University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and ancient history. He then took graduate courses in physics at the University of Cambridge and Stanford University.
Unz worked in the banking industry and wrote software for mortgage securities during his studies. He founded a company called Wall Street Analytics in Palo Alto, California. In 2006 his company was acquired by the ratings firm Moody's.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Unz