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Interview by Vincent Carroll Rocky Mountain News, June 18, 1995 Peter Brimelow is a two-time immigrant—first to Canada from England and from Canada to the United States, where he is now a citizen—who ironically finds himself a leading figure in the movement to reshape American immigration policy. In
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Forbes, July 4, 1994 THE HANGPERSON'S NOOSE is unmistakably around the tobacco industry's neck. In Florida and Mississippi, state governments are attempting to force tobacco companies to pay some smoking-related health care costs. In Washington, D.C., the Environmental Protection Agency has claimed that "secondhand
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Bill Clinton promised that his cabinet would show as much diversity as is seen in the US. A quota policy, however, is unpopular with voters. A number of economic experts give their views of how employment quotas would affect the US economy. President Clinton complained about "quota games"
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Commentary, September 1992 To the End of Time: The Seduction and Conquest of a Media Empire. By Richard M. Clurman. Simon & Schuster. 368 pp. $23.00. In the spring of 1989, a bitter takeover struggle broke out over Time Inc., the white-shoe publisher of celebrated American institutions like Time
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NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING economist Milton Friedman rockets into San Francisco's traffic in his Cadillac Allante convertible, wearing a jaunty baseball cap that reads AYAU PRESIDENTE, the souvenir of a Guatemalan ally's election campaign. Can this man really have turned 80 last month? Well, he's just
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Time to Rethink Immigration? (PART 2) Mr. Brimelow is Editor at VDARE.com. Click here to return to Part 1... Asking the Right Questions Asking the Right Questions SUPPOSING AMERICA'S political elite suddenly decided to notice immigration, what questions should they consider? Is immigration really necessary to the
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Mr. Brimelow is Editor at VDARE.com. (first published in National Review, June 22, 1992) DANTE would have been delighted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service waiting rooms. They would have provided him with a tenth Circle of Hell. There is something distinctly infernal about the spectacle of so many
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Commentary, September 1989 Sketches from a Life. by George F. Kennan. Pantheon. 369 pp. $22.95. [VDARE.com note: Kennan died in 2005, at the age of 101. His sensible views on immigration are memorialized by Steve Sailer here.] “Kennan—a Prophet Honored” was the headline over Mary McGrory’s
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Forbes,January 9, 1989 IT IS EASIER TO UNDERSTAND the severity of the crisis that has pushed Mikhail Gorbachev into attempting a highly risky reform program when you actually visit the Soviet Union. Snow and gloom were absolutely all-pervasive during the ten days a group of Western academics and journalists
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Forbes,January 9, 1989 IT IS EASIER TO UNDERSTAND the severity of the crisis that has pushed Mikhail Gorbachev into attempting a highly risky reform program when you actually visit the Soviet Union. Snow and gloom were absolutely all-pervasive during the ten days a group of Western academics and journalists
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Originally published in the Times Of London, October 31, 1987 less than two weeks after the stock market crash known as “Black Monday”. NEW YORK—The lot of a financial journalist is not, totally, a happy one. The subject is inherently intractable. None of your colleagues want to read about
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Originally published in the Times Of London, October 31, 1987 less than two weeks after the stock market crash known as“Black Monday”. NEW YORK—The lot of a financial journalist is not, totally, a happy one. The subject is inherently intractable. None of your colleagues want to read about