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First published in Forbes, Dec 28, 1987 DANIEL DORON, director of the Tel Aviv-based Israel Center for Social & Economic Progress, is fighting an enemy that may be more dangerous to his country than the PLO: an inefficient, statist-oriented and bureaucracy-ridden economy. A third-generation Israeli, the U.S.-educated Doron
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I was puzzled, when I arrived in the U.S. in 1970, to find a small minority of Americans would pointedly wish you "Happy Holidays" at Christmas. Now, of course, "Happy Holidays" is on the point of exterminating Christmas altogether, providing us here at VDARE.COM
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Peter Brimelow tells us that he has FINALLY sent in his book manuscript The Worm in the Apple (on the mundane topic of the teacher unions, alas) to Harper Collins. He is traveling with his family much of the time until mid-July. VDARE.COM will be posting without him, of
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VDARE.COM continues its series of argument-by-argument refutations of unconvincing pro-immigration polemics. This time it's Tamar Jacoby who's on the receiving end of our peerless forensic talents. Too Many Immigrants? No. America needs more foreign workers. [Peter Brimelow and James Fulford write: Tamar Jacoby is being
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Economist Peter Bauer's work on developing areas By Peter Brimelow. First published in Forbes, Feb 22, 1988 HAVE THE ACADEMICS and liberals laid a burden of guilt on you about the plight of the Third World? Have they convinced you that debt repayment by the poorer countries is
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Peter, Lord Bauer died unexpectedly at his home in London on Thursday night, just days before the ceremonies in Washington D.C. at which he was to be awarded the first Milton Friedman Award at the Cato Institute's 25th Anniversary dinner. He was 85. This is a double
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First published in Forbes, March 27, 1995 [Peter Brimelow writes: I enjoyed writing this article, which the former and great Editor of Forbes, James W. Michaels, held out for a cycle while he pondered the possible reaction and which got me on the front page of the Tijuana paper (twice)
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See also Peter Brimelow Remembers FORBES Magazine's Repression Of THE BELL CURVE, Twenty Years Later "Still the best published synopsis of The Bell Curve"—Charles Murray [See sidebar on Richard Herrnstein, The Purpose of Tenure] First published, Forbes October 24, 1994 Charles Murray and the late
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Peter Brimelow writes : Many thanks to the readers who've pointed out VDARE.com's appearance in Tamar Jacoby's long immigration apologia in the current issue of Commentary Magazine, reproduced in true immigration-enthusiast echo-chamber style on the Wall Street Journal's online April 4 Opinion
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Peter Brimelow writes: Ernest van den Haag lived a long full life and, I am reliably informed, died a good Catholic death on Thursday, March 21, in his 88th year, adding a suitable MittelEuropa twist to the Sephardic heritage of which he was proud. But I grieve anyway. I first
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Originally published in the The American Legion Magazine, July Issue, Vol. 143, No. 1. WHY do I, as an immigrant, worry about immigration? I have an infant memory: playing with my twin brother in the back yard of my aunt's home in a Lancashire cotton town. Suddenly, great
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Originally published in IntellectualCapital.com 08/21/97. A change is coming over the immigration debate. For about a decade, immigration enthusiasts have been loudly minimizing the significance of the influx unleashed by the 1965 Immigration Act, after one of the longer immigration pauses in American history. But now the