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WAR AGAINST CHRISTMAS COMPETITION [ II ] [ III] [ IV ] Happy New Year! by Peter Brimelow Before The Purge at National Review, I had persuaded Editor John O'Sullivan to run an annual competition for the most egregious attempt to suppress Christmas. I gather it's been abandoned now – in fact,
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Oringinally published in Forbes, December 11, 2000 "THE LEFT IS RIGHT: AMERICA IS AN UNJUST SOCIETY." Startling words to come from Paul Craig Roberts, 61, an architect (as assistant secretary of the Treasury) of the Reagan tax-cut revolution and now a syndicated columnist and chairman of the
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It's happened to me maybe a dozen times since I published Alien Nation in 1995: at some conservative gathering in Washington or New York, a well-known figure in the movement takes me aside and, glancing around to make sure no-one from The Wall Street Journal Edit
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Letter from Brenda Walker More Readers Respond Too close to call, phooey! At 6 a.m. November 8, the 2000 Election's message was loud and clear: George W. Bush, despite pitiful pandering, has been spectacularly defeated among Hispanics. Which means that, given the immigration policy he paradoxically favors,
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A lot of livid libertarians have been e-mailing us lately. They didn't like my recent article /becker.htm highlighting Nobel Laureate economist Gary S. Becker's acknowledgement that the welfare state, which did not exist during the last Great Wave of immigration (1890-1920), has fatally
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Mass immigration is always justified to Americans in economic terms, but it is an open secret that the support for current policy in the technical literature is non-existent. Partly this is an empirical issue: lower-skilled immigrants just don't produce that much—a discovery associated with Harvard
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(Peter Brimelow's 1986 book The Patriot Game: Canada and the Canadian Question Revisited is allegedly still available at Amazon.com) "He was the first person I invited to visit me when I was president of the United States,""He gave me a lot of very
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Letter from Brenda Walker After languishing all year, the H1B temporary worker/indentured servant bill will reportedly be voted on imminently - barely a month before the election. Almost as if Congress has been holding it hostage to extort as many campaign contributions out of Silicon Valley as possible. Funny thing.
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Paved With Good Intentions The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America, by Jared Taylor First published in National Review, January 18, 1993 [Peter Brimelow writes: While I congratulated American Renaissance's Jared Taylor on his outing Bill Buckley for cowardice on immigration (August 23, 2000), I realized that
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Canada has notoriously invented many modern political diseases. But it may also be inventing the cures. A young Canadian neoconservative, Michael Taube, has just published an essay on North American conservative factions (Calgary Herald, August 26) that is notable both for its strengths and for its weakness. Taube has to
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"It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more." William F. Buckley Jr., letter to Jared Taylor August 8, 2000 Congratulations to American Renaissance editor Jared Taylor for getting Bill Buckley to admit, after
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Housewife jailed for advocating Official English Case tests city's speech ordinance By Michael G. Walsh, The Muskegon Chronicle, Saturday, August 12, 2000 MANISTEE... It was a little past 11 a.m. on an August day in 1998 when [Janice] Barton, 45, was leaving the Peppermill Restaurant in this