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Tomorrow's America - Immigration and the Nation's Future

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Tomorrow's America - Immigration and the Nation's Future

See Norbert Schlei—Guilty of Malice Aforethought in America's Immigration Disaster?

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William F. Buckley, Jr., RIP—Sort Of

"There are no second acts in American lives", F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said. No-one exemplified this better than his fellow Irish-American social climber William F. Buckley Jr., founder of National Review, who died early in the morning of February 27 at the age of 82. This might seem

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Golden Oldie: Peter Brimelow's Absolutely Definitive Account Of This Weird Competing Currencies Idea Ron Paul Keeps Talking About

Peter Brimelow writes: OK, I admit it: I   tend to be early. The idea of private money—often referred to as “competing currencies”—has always fascinated me. I persuaded   Jim Michaels, the late, great editor of Forbes Magazine, to let me translate the little-known academic literature into journalese in this

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The Immigration Solution: Peter Brimelow's Review

[Published in the       Washington Times, January 1, 2008] Anyone foolhardy enough to write a book advocating immigration reduction has to decide whether to mention the       elephant in the census data—the fact that, by commission and omission, through the workings of the epochal       1965 Immigration Act and by       effectively ceasing

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George Borjas Interview—Part 2: Borjas On Open Border Libertarians: " I Don't Really Miss Them, Actually"

[An abridged version of an interview published in Immigration        and the American Future. See        also Heaven's Door After A Year, By George Borjas,        June 10, 2001] Peter Brimelow writes: Everyone knows, or concedes, that immigration is good        for the economy—except economists. Amazingly, since the        early 1990s, a

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George Borjas On The Media's Immigration Economics: "People Now Are Getting That It's Complete Nonsense"

[See Part Two—Borjas On Open Border Libertarians: " I Don't Really Miss Them, Actually"] [An abridged version of an interview published in Immigration and the American Future. See also             Heaven's Door After A Year, By George Borjas, June 10, 2001] Peter Brimelow writes: Everyone

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Why Business Will Change Sides—And Accept An Immigration Cut-Off

[VDARE.COM note:   This is an abridged version        of VDARE.COM editor   Peter Brimelow's chapter in Immigration and the American Future, the       "fact-crammed collection of 14 essays " published        by   Chronicles magazine  that   Steve Sailer reviewed here on November 12—see   Elitist Economists,        Immigration, And The American

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Invisible Victims: White Males and the Crisis of Affirmative Action Revisited

[Peter Brimelow writes: We just found my November 1992 American Spectator review of Invisible Victims, Frederick R. Lynch's seminal study of the impact of affirmative action (a.k.a.) quotas on white males. Quotas are a zero-sum game, so somebody has to suffer. But at that point, as

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Ron Paul: "I Believe In National Sovereignty".

Peter Brimelow writes:                   Congressman Ron Paul was small, bent, and serious to the point of humorlessness when we met with him in an office building foyer in New Hampshire last month. We asked him if he was enjoying himself and he looked at us as if he thought we'

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Peter Brimelow On Philippe Legrain's Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them

[VDARE.COM note: An unlinked version of this was published this morning in the Washington Times under the title "Immigration Enthusiasm"] Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them, by Philippe Legrain; Princeton University Press; 374pp; $27.95 A funny thing happened to Philippe Legrain [Email him] as he began writing