Immigration - Quillette

The Case for a Merit-Based Immigration System

The current system is not only economically counterproductive but incentivises people to become illegal immigrants.

23 Aug 2024 · 10 min read

Immigrant Song

Canadians have had to formulate a new language to address new complications posed by immigration, and no one is quite sure how that language should sound.

George Case

6 Mar 2024 · 9 min read

Cosmopolis or Bust?

In order to function, a cosmopolis must embrace both toleration and the rule of law.

Joel Kotkin

5 Mar 2024 · 10 min read

Immigration and Instability

Ireland is struggling with new realities in an age of global migration.

Brian Kaller

19 Jan 2024 · 8 min read

The Immigration Conundrum

Migration from the developing world to the West will continue until and unless international development can improve the societies people are leaving.

John Lloyd

19 Sep 2023 · 9 min read

The Chinese Exodus

Fears of a CCP sponsored invasion at the Mexican border are misplaced. People are fleeing China because its economy is in dire straits.

Aaron Sarin

24 Aug 2023 · 11 min read

An Immigrant’s Ode to Canada

A survivor of Sri Lanka’s civil war who found safety and wealth on Canadian shores wonders why his well-to-do white neighbours seem so fixated on racism.

Roy Ratnavel

18 May 2023 · 12 min read

Why Are Underage Central Americans in US Factories?

Debt and migration spirals have turned asylum applications into a charade for exploitation.

David Stoll

5 Apr 2023 · 8 min read

To Fight Wokeness, the GOP Should Embrace Immigrant Voters

The rise of ultra-progressive ideologies and the decline in patriotic sentiment are two broad cultural trends that worry American conservatives. Some may be tempted to imagine that these two phenomena are connected to immigration and the resulting ethnic and racial diversity—especially since opposition to immigration is common among conservatives

Alex Nowrasteh

11 Feb 2022 · 7 min read

George Makari's ‘Of Fear and Strangers’—A Review

French conservative radio host Éric Zemmour is mounting a presidential run, seeking to steal the mantle of right-wing populism from Marine Le Pen. Not only does the 63-year-old firebrand want to limit the number of immigrants who can come to France—a standard campaign promise for politicians of this type—

Zaid Jilani

8 Dec 2021 · 6 min read

‘We Never Looked Back’

Education was divided along confessional lines into Catholic and Protestant school systems; for these purposes, Jews were designated Protestant.

Ruth R. Wisse

27 Nov 2021 · 15 min read

Maternal Lessons in Politics from a Jewish Iraqi-American Ping Pong Champion

Democratic transformation generally comes from the ground up, not from foreigners bearing guns and gifts.

David Bernstein

2 Sep 2021 · 8 min read

Modern Europe and the Enlightenment—A Review

Modern Europe and the Enlightenment opens by presenting a balanced examination and robust summary of Enlightenment values.

T.M. Murray

30 May 2021 · 7 min read

Debate and Disinformation: The Ugly Quarrel Over the UK Government’s Race Report

Most critics have instead based their criticism on the demonstrably false accusation that the report “denied the existence of institutional racism in the UK.”

Damian Counsell

17 May 2021 · 24 min read

A Loss of Direction and the Rise of Populisms

There is nevertheless a glimmer of hope—the possibility that, despite recent calamities, we are in fact still living in the Age of Moderation and that this is a blip and not an epochal change

Joseph B. Juhasz and András Tóth

25 Nov 2020 · 16 min read