Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster, by Peter Brimelow
The customary approach to immigration by libertarians has been a simple one.
Political Theory
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When To Revolt
The cords that bind the Union together are weaker than they have been in more than a century. Many states are entering into political revolt against federal encroachment. But this situation is no departure from American tradition. Revolting against consolidated government has been a key to keeping the government in check.
Split and Prosper
When discussing the secession of Quebec from the Rest of Canada (ROC), many Anglo-Canadian economists become doomsday preachers of apocalyptic scenarios. They predict social calamities such as poverty, mass unemployment, civil war, and mass exodus.
They should settle down, try to be rational, and focus on the only real issue: the long-term economic well-being of Quebecois and Canadians.
Dead Right, by David Frum
David Frum has identified a central problem affecting much of the American Right.
“Why Intellectual Conservatism Died,” by Michael Lind
Michael Lind maintains that intellectual conservatism collapsed over the past decade.
The Crisis of Statism
American government, we are told, is notable for its stability. And so it seems, at least on the surface. But stability over a long period, as the Russian tsars could tell us, is no guarantee of permanence. And the tsars fell very suddenly after ruling far longer than the U.S. government's two centuries.
Mrs. Thatcher’s Poll Tax
Riots in the streets; protest against a hated government; cops arresting protesters. A familiar story these days. But suddenly we find that the protests are directed, not against a hated Communist tyranny in Eastern Europe, but against Mrs. Thatcher's regime in Britain, a supposed paragon of liberty and the free market.
The Trouble With Democracy
The sudden collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe has amazed and elated the West. But what does it mean? If Communism has lost, what has won?
Government and Hurricane Hugo: A Deadly Combination
Why must taxpayers A and B be forced to pay for natural disasters that strike C? Why can't C—and his private insurance carriers—foot the bill?
Love in the Bureaucracy
As long as bureaucrat-bashing remains sport royal, there is hope. But how much? Even now, confronting bureaucracy's relentless encroachments and entanglements, whoya gonna call?
