Rishi Sunak is no son of India
The elite diaspora have globalisation etched into their bones
America’s fake caste war
The media is confecting racial division
Amy Wax on “Asians”
Amy Wax Redux – Another round in the immigration and culture debate. Glenn Loury hosts a debate that has gotten some attention because Amy Wax said something in relation to “Asians.” Her interlocutor is an East Asian American, and Wax’s original comments were particularly targeted at Indian women. So this has spun a bit out … Continue reading Amy Wax on “Asians”
<i>One Billion Americans</i>: A Contrarian Liberal Argues for Mass Immigration
At least the aim of Matt Yglesias in his new book is to revive and strengthen America.
Generations don’t exist, and neither do “immigrants”
I have heard it stated by some scholars that generations don’t exist, but cohorts do. That is, our bracketing of ranges of people into particular generations is artificial and bins what is truly a more continuous variable into a few categories. The same criticism applies to the Myers-Briggs typology in personality (the main reason psychologists …
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This is America
As you may know, Reihan Salam, who I would consider a friend (albeit, one I see in person three years or so!), has a new book out, Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders. It won’t be a surprise to know that I generally agree with him … Continue reading “This is America”
Half of white liberals want less immigration
As I have mentioned elsewhere my espousal of conservatism at Moving Secularism Forward went well. Interestingly several people came up to me afterward and admitted a sympathy for the “conservative” position on immigration (i.e., restrictionism). The rationales were both environmentalist (population control types) and law & order. Just out of curiosity I wanted to see […]
The privilege of many without privilege
The New York Times Magazine has a long piece up by Jose Antonio Vargas about his life as person without papers in the USA. Vargas is no Bob Woodward, but anyone who follows the news closely would be familiar with his name (for example, he was commissioned to write about Mark Zuberkberg for The New […]
Across North American borders
There is a border across which fertility drops by a factor of two in North America (defined as from Canada to Panama). Specifically, one nation has a TFR of ~4, and the other ~2. Can you guess the two nations? You can find the answer in the charts below.
First, linear:
Now, log-transformed:
That’s right, TFR, Guatemala (4.15) […]
…about those cheese-eating surrender monkeys
France denies citizenship over veil:
French officials have denied citizenship to a man because he allegedly forces his wife to wear a full Islamic veil, the immigration minister said Wednesday.
“This individual imposes the full veil upon his wife, does not allow her the freedom to go and come as she pleases, and bans her from going […]