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Category Archives: Immigration
Jean Raspail: The Consul of Lost Causes
In the summer of 1971, a forty-six-year-old French travel writer borrows a villa at Boulouris on the Riviera, up the coast from Saint-Tropez. The house is built in the English seaside style of the late nineteenth century, with a carved … Continue reading
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Amy Wax: Truth, Transgression, and the Modern University
Part Two Part Three Amy Laura Wax is a pressure point inside the modern university, a figure through whom deeper institutional contradictions become visible. Her biography tracks a classic ascent through the highest tiers of American meritocracy. Having secured that … Continue reading
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The Cesar Chavez Abuse Story
This is a meticulously reported investigative piece by The New York Times that destroys the sanitized public image of Cesar Chavez as an untouchable civil-rights saint. Reporters Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hurtes spent months interviewing more than 60 people (victims, … Continue reading
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NYT: Trump’s Immigration Policy Is 100 Years Old – The White House seems to be mining the Coolidge era for inspiration. But America is not the country it was in 1924.
The New York Times reports: They are channeling an immigration regime instituted in 1924, when strict racial quotas — driven by fears of foreigners and a rise in eugenic thinking — led to a bottoming-out of foreign-born Americans that lasted … Continue reading
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The Immigration Wars
Immigration remains highly moralized, but the discourse has shifted toward “pragmatic” versus “punitive” frames. While there is broad moral consensus on deporting criminals, the debate over deporting working families without criminal records is where the “bs” is most dense. High-status … Continue reading
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Americans Turn Against ICE
No political issue is more important to me than restricting immigration, so all of my instincts are on the side of ICE, but I like to read many points of view, and against my prejudices, I notice a growing consensus … Continue reading
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Evelyn Waugh: ‘Strong Mutually Antagonistic Governments Everywhere’
In this piece, Steve Sailer applies his characteristic socio-demographic lens to the intersection of Indian domestic politics and American immigration policy. The central tension he identifies is that a “better ruled” India (under Hindu Nationalism) produces a specific type of … Continue reading
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The New York Times Now Reads Like VDARE
Steve Sailer writes: “The Times has now run two major articles in recent days — first on Somali corruption in Minnesota and yesterday on the Biden Administration’s foolishness on immigration policy — that sound like what I was writing 25 … Continue reading
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A Nation Of Immigrants
Christopher Caldwell writes Nov. 23, 2025: Nations, by definition, are made up of people who are born (nati) with something in common. You can’t have a “nation” made up of people from elsewhere. Yet Americans, with their typical ingenuity, had … Continue reading
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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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