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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
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Like Steve Sailer, I feel vaguely benevolent toward Jonah Goldberg, but for a somewhat different reason: he is so obviously a trivial smart aleck that I never have to bother reading him. (Of course, this shows I'm out of touch with popular culture. I never watch TV game
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(Peter Brimelow writes: this review ran in the Washington Times Sunday, February 3, 2002) "The supreme function of statesmanship," British Tory rebel Enoch Powell began his famous 1968 speech on immigration, "is to provide against preventable evils." (It's one of the great political speeches
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Mark Krikorian's Center For Immigration Studies is to be congratulated in eliciting from Dr. Stephen Steinlight, an official with the American Jewish Committee, a truly remarkable document: The Jewish Stake in America's Changing Demography: Reconsidering a Misguided Immigration Policy. Steinlight basically argues that, post 9/11,
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PROJECTED REPUBLICAN VOTE (%) IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEARS Year 1988A Republican Share (%) 53% % of the Voting Age Population White Black Latino Asian 78.8% 10.7% 7.4% 3.15% Estimates: 2000 50.7 74.4 11.3 10.0 4.3 2004 50.3 73.0 11.4 10.8
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TABLE 2 Projected Republican Share Republican Share With half of Nader and Buchanan Voters Percent of Voting Age Population: White(a) Black(a) Hispanic Asian(a) 2000 - Nov. 7 48.4% 50.0% 73.8% 11.4% 10.3% 4.4% 2004 48.1% 49.7% 72.4% 11.
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TABLE 1 Projected Republican Vote (%) in Presidential Election Years (Extrapolations Hold Republican Share for Each Ethnic Group at 1988 Levels) Year Republican Share (%) 1988A 53% 2000 50.7 2004 50.8 2008 49.9 2012 49.5 2016 49.1 2020 48.7 2024 48.3 2028 47.8 2032
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Unfettered immigration is rapidly shifting the ethnic and political balance of the United States. Republicans beware! Peter Brimelow writes: For reasons that are obvious, Ed Rubenstein and I were not invited to update our 1997 cover story in the Goldberg Review (changed from National Review because of the implication of
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(Them, by the way = You.) My favorite quote in the endless coverage of the September 11 attacks comes from the September 22 New York Times advertorial that assured us "Arab-Americans Are Finding New Tolerance Amid the Turmoil." Ismael Ahmed, Executive Director of the Detroit-based Access ("an organization