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The Long View 2007-06-01: The Culture Wars and Immigration

The mid- to late-2000s was the point in time where opposition to immigration to the United States came to be associated with racism. As political science grad student Zach Goldberg notes, much of the change in expressed attitudes come from white liberals, while the rest of the country hasn’t

The Long View 2007-05-18: Immigration Compromise; Abora III; Crank Koranic Critics; Red-Green Alliance

I’m not sure this exactly counts as a prediction, but it sure came true: The entire United States is now a border town. Even enforcing the immigration laws we have now would require a national police tasked chiefly with that function. Asking the current bureaucracy to manage the guest-worker

The Long View 2007-05-08: Sarkozy; the Naughty Vicars; Immigration

This is an interesting look back at the election of Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France at about the same time that Barack Obama had his first time as President of the United States. Sarkozy; the Naughty Vicars; Immigration Surely Amir Taheri goes too far in The New York Post, where

The Long View 2007-01-05: Goddard, Mahdi, Climate, Anti-McCain

John J. Reilly proposed this scheme of immigration reform once before: (1) Physical control of the borders; (2) Legal immigration restricted to family reunification and political asylum; (3) Amnesty with parallel tracks for repatriation or naturalization He intended it as a compromise in the name of domestic peace, even knowing

Linkfest 2018-06-25

Confessions of a former immigration hawk Matthew Walter calls himself a former immigration hawk, but what he says here is fairly close to what John Reilly used to say about this. Classless Utopia versus Class Compromise This was quite good. Class is something that Americans are not good at thinking

Linkfest 2018-06-18

Perhaps Monday is the new Friday around here. Conan the Barbarian: A Review, an Analysis, and a Little Bit of a Misunderstood and Improperly Played - While Talking About the Pulps I found this reading the Conan roundup from Monday. I also rate the 1982 Milius Conan higher than Rick

The Long View 2006-09-05: Union Revolt; Bob Roberts; Mead

I had recently been thinking thoughts much like John Reilly's here: if labor unions in the US had real political power again, one of the first things they would do is demand decreased immigration, and effective enforcement of labor laws. Since at the moment neither major US party