Category Archives: Immigration

NYT: Musk’s Misinformation About Tech Visas

Farah Stockman writes for the New York Times: …for more than a decade, Americans working in the tech industry have been systematically laid off and replaced by cheaper H-1B visa holders… Prominent companies were jettisoning their locally hired I.T. departments … Continue reading

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CROB: Mass immigration’s self-destructive effects

From the Claremont Review of Books: * Garett Jones has written a scandalous book. The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left reviews a generation of social science research on … Continue reading

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The Monoculture Of Migration Studies

Eric Kaufman writes about Peter Gatrell’s The Unsettling of Europe: The book’s aim is to “make migration normal” by problematizing the native/immigrant distinction while convincing “native” Europeans to stop thinking of themselves as long-settled folk and more as mobile folk … Continue reading

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The One Decisive Moment In American History – When WASPs Surrendered Their Sovereignty (12-19-20)

Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Study, explains why anti-immigrant populism is more a European problem than an American one. “There is one decisive moment in American history — he says — which is not much … Continue reading

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WSJ: ‘The publisher pushed hard for admitting Jewish refugees and took two into her own home’

From the WSJ: But it wasn’t just party affiliation that made Alicia such a maverick in her family. She spurned its militant isolationism, becoming an early advocate of aiding beleaguered Britain as it faced up to Hitler alone. She even … Continue reading

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