Ronald Keeva Unz (/ʌnz/; born September 20, 1961) is an American technology entrepreneur, political activist, writer, and publisher.

He has sponsored multiple ballot propositions promoting structured English immersion education as well as campaign finance reform and minimum wage increases.

"[2] Unz Review has been criticized by the Anti-Defamation League for hosting racist and anti-semitic content,[3] and the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled it a white nationalist publication.

[8] He attended North Hollywood High School and, in his senior year won first place in the 1979 Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

[10] Unz made an unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination in the 1994 California gubernatorial election, challenging incumbent Pete Wilson.

Proposition 227 did not seek to end bilingual education since special exemptions were made for students to remain in an English immersion class if a parent so desires.

[22][23] In late 1999 Unz briefly entered the U.S. Senate race to challenge incumbent Dianne Feinstein,[24] declaring his candidacy in October[21] and dropping out by December to focus on fundraising for Proposition 25, which was ultimately defeated in the March 2000 primary election.

The slate included himself, journalist Stuart Taylor Jr., physicist Stephen Hsu, consumer advocate Ralph Nader, and lawyer Lee C. Cheng.

[32][33] Unz campaigned on a Republican ticket in California in the 2016 primaries for election to the US Senate intending to succeed Democrat Barbara Boxer.

[47] Unz's writings on Ivy League admissions were praised by white supremacist David Duke who said it confirmed Harvard was "now under powerful Jewish influence".

The noted antisemite Kevin B. MacDonald said it was similar to his own view that Jews are "at odds with the values of the great majority of non-Jewish White Americans.

"[44] The ADL and others criticized Unz for a $600,000 grant for research in evolutionary biology to Gregory Cochran, a professor who argued that homosexuality may be caused by a "gay germ".

"[31] The Unz Foundation, of which he is president, has donated to individuals and organizations which are alleged by the ADL to have published or expressed opinions that are antisemitic or anti-Israel.

[3] In July 2018, in articles for The Unz Review, he wrote about the claims in the Czarist forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Henry Ford's The International Jew.

Ford's work, a series of antisemitic pamphlets published in the 1920s, appeared to Unz to be "quite plausible and factually-oriented, even sometimes overly cautious in their presentation".

[3] He partly accepted the standard consensus on the Protocols but believes they were assembled by "someone who was generally familiar with the secretive machinations of elite international Jews against the existing governments... who drafted the document to outline his view of their strategic plans.