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No Immigration Amnesty Without a Minimum Wage Hike
• Salon • May 18, 2013
• 700 Words • 3 Comments • Reply
Congress is currently considering bipartisan legislation providing an amnesty for America’s 11 million illegal immigrants, probably combined with extra visas for skilled workers and an agricultural guestworker program. But principled liberals and conservatives should both demand that any immigration reform proposal also include a sharp rise in the federal minimum wage. The reason is simple.... Read More
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How Social Darwinism Made Modern China • 52m ▶
A thousand years of meritocracy shaped the Middle Kingdom.
• The American Conservative • March 11, 2013
• 8,300 Words • 179 Comments • Reply
During the three decades following Deng Xiaoping’s 1978 reforms, China achieved the fastest sustained rate of economic growth in human history, with the resulting 40-fold rise in the size of China’s economy leaving it poised to surpass America’s as the largest in the world. A billion ordinary Han Chinese have lifted themselves economically from oxen... Read More
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Racial Quotas, Harvard, and the Legacy of Bakke • 6m ▶
Have three decades of Supreme Court support for affirmative action been based on fraud?
• National Review • February 18, 2013
• 800 Words • 99 Comments • Reply
For almost 35 years, college-admissions decisions in America have been governed by the continuing legacy of University of California v. Bakke, in which a fragmented U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of racial quotas but affirmed the legitimacy of considering race as one factor among several. The justices are now revisiting these crucial national... Read More
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Statistics Indicate an Ivy League Asian Quota • 5m ▶
• The New York Times • December 19, 2012
• 700 Words • 44 Comments • Reply
Just as their predecessors of the 1920s always denied the existence of "Jewish quotas," top officials at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the other Ivy League schools today strongly deny the existence of "Asian quotas." But there exists powerful statistical evidence to the contrary. Each year, American universities provide their racial enrollment data to the National... Read More
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The Myth of American Meritocracy • 2h45m ▶
Are elite university admissions based on meritocracy and diversity as claimed?
• The American Conservative • November 28, 2012
• 26,300 Words • 258 Comments • Reply
Just before the Labor Day weekend, a front page New York Times story broke the news of the largest cheating scandal in Harvard University history, in which nearly half the students taking a Government course on the role of Congress had plagiarized or otherwise illegally collaborated on their final exam.[1] Each year, Harvard admits just... Read More
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The East Asian Exception to Socio-Economic IQ Influences • 7m ▶
• The American Conservative • July 18, 2012
• 1,100 Words • 19 Comments • Reply
In “Race, IQ, and Wealth,” I examined the pattern of IQ scores for various European peoples as presented by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen in IQ and the Wealth of Nations and noted the considerable evidence for a large socio-economic influence. In nearly all cases, impoverished, rural populations seemed to exhibit far lower IQ scores... Read More
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Race, IQ, and Wealth • 58m ▶
What the facts tell us about a taboo subject
• The American Conservative • July 18, 2012
• 7,500 Words • 136 Comments • Reply
At the end of April, Charles Kenny, a former World Bank economist specializing in international development, published a blistering attack in Foreign Policy entitled “Dumb and Dumber,” with the accusatory subtitle “Are development experts becoming racists?” Kenny charged that a growing number of development economists were turning towards genetic and other intrinsic human traits as... Read More
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Immigration, Republicans, and the End of White America • 1h32m ▶
The sources of America’s immigration problems—and a possible solution
• The American Conservative • September 19, 2011
• 12,200 Words • 325 Comments • Reply
Will mass immigration destroy the GOP? Can our middle-class society survive high immigration levels? Is there any political solution to our current immigration difficulties? Last June the U.S. Census disclosed that non-white births in America were on the verge of surpassing the white total and might do so as early as the end of this... Read More
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The Myth of Hispanic Crime • 40m ▶
Talk TV sensationalists and axe-grinding ideologues have fallen for a myth of immigrant lawlessness.
• The American Conservative • January 26, 2010
• 5,500 Words • 321 Comments • Reply
According to Lou Dobbs, “a third of the prison population in this country is estimated to be illegal aliens,” and Glenn Beck regularly warns of “an illegal alien crime wave.” Congressman Tom Tancredo insists, “The face of illegal immigration on our borders is one of murder, one of drug smuggling, one of vandalism for all... Read More
Habla Usted Ingles?
• The Wall Street Journal • October 31, 2002
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It's fair to say that when arguably the most liberal Democratic state in the U.S. has abandoned bilingual education, it is indeed an idea whose time has passed. In recent months, the home of Harvard and Michael Dukakis, and the only state that voted for George McGovern in 1972, is rediscovering the value of good... Read More
Got English?
• The Denver Rocky Mountain News • September 14, 2002
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Amendment 31 would transform how students who don't speak English are educated in Colorado, requiring that they take special classes taught in English. Some of them currently are enrolled in programs in which they are instructed for a substantial part of the day in Spanish. Today's Roundtable debate features Ron Unz, a California entrepreneur who... Read More
Will Riordan Run on "English"?
• The Sacramento Bee • December 23, 2001
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As former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan gears up for his campaign to challenge Gov. Gray Davis, he faces some serious obstacles. First, no incumbent California governor has been defeated for a second term in 60 years, and Davis -- an experienced, somewhat ruthless campaigner with over $30 million in his war chest -- is... Read More
Rounding Up Arabs, Blacks, and Jews • 7m ▶
• Salon • December 6, 2001
• 1,100 Words • 1 Comment • Reply
Dec. 6, 2001---In the wake of the Sept. 11th attacks, Americans are debating whether we should adopt ethnic profiling policies that may ensnare thousands of innocent people---Arabs and Muslims---in the government's net, in order to ferret out a relative handful of guilty individuals. All of America's long legal tradition argues to the contrary, but in... Read More
Rocks Falling Upward at Harvard University • 5m ▶
• National Review • October 26, 2001
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While most Americans have been transfixed by the terrifying prospect of massive deaths from anthrax or suicide bombers, a few in our society fear an even greater horror: the fanatic defenders of Spanish-almost-always instruction see their doom in an "English" initiative heading toward the November 2002 Massachusetts ballot. Although the vote on "English" is over... Read More
The Bilingual Burden of Republican Guilt • 10m ▶
• The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2001
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Just a few years ago, congressional Republicans overwhelmingly supported proposals to expel a million or more Hispanic children from American public schools. Now, perhaps in a misguided attempt to expiate that political sin, the Republican-controlled Senate has voted by an overwhelming two-to-one margin to quadruple the federal budget for Spanish-only bilingual education programs, largely aimed... Read More
Trimming the Emperor's New Clothes • 5m ▶
• National Review • May 22, 2001
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Given the landslide victories of ballot measures to dismantle bilingual education in California and Arizona, national media coverage of the dramatic rise in subsequent test scores, and the growing possibility of similar efforts in Colorado and New York City, it is hardly surprising that Congress would consider inserting bilingual-education reform into its omnibus package of... Read More
Bilingual Education Lives On • 5m ▶
• The New York Times • March 2, 2001
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PALO ALTO, Calif.---In 1974, the New York City Board of Education signed a federal consent decree with Aspira, a Hispanic education and advocacy group, requiring that students who speak limited English be taught almost exclusively in their native languages. Today, this decree requiring bilingual education still governs the schooling of some 170,000 students in the... Read More
Above the Law in Arizona?
Some kind of conservative
• National Review • January 12, 2001
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In recent years, Republicans have regularly charged that liberal Democrats tend only to enforce those laws that they support and ignore those laws they regard as misguided. Although the evidence for this criticism is mixed at best, demands for reestablishing the "Rule of Law" have become a staple of partisan Republican attacks on an allegedly... Read More
The Gift of English
It’s past time for New York to scrap bilingual ed
• City Journal • September 1, 2000
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In June 1998, Californians overwhelmingly approved Proposition 227, the controversial ballot initiative that replaced the state’s bilingual-ed system with English-immersion classes. No more would California’s public schools force non-English-speaking immigrant kits to take their courses in their native tongue, guaranteeing that few would ever gain the proficiency in English they need to get ahead in... Read More
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How the Republicans Lost California • 10m ▶
The Golden State isn't too liberal for the GOP. Its leaders simply scared away immigrant voters
• The Wall Street Journal • August 28, 2000
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Just 10 years ago, California was a GOP bastion, regarded as the cornerstone of the Republican Electoral College "lock." The 1990 elections merely confirmed this impression, with the GOP winning its third gubernatorial race in a row, its fifth of seven. Two years earlier, the 1988 presidential race had marked the sixth straight California victory... Read More
Losing the Peace on English in the Schools - NRO • 10m ▶
• National Review • June 13, 2000
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Today, on the important issue of whether immigrant children should be taught English in American schools, the Republican party is in danger of having won the war but lost the peace. For nearly thirty years, the Republican Party has been on record as opposing so-called bilingual-education programs, which all too often amount to Spanish-only instruction... Read More
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The Right Way for Republicans to Handle Ethnicity in Politics • 25m ▶
• The American Enterprise • April 1, 2000
• 3,200 Words • 2 Comments • Reply
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. Immigration. Bilingual education. Over the past few years, these issues and broader matters of ethnic politics have become the stuff of nightmares for Republican candidates around the country. On the one hand, ethnic issues are tremendously important to the future well-being of our large and diverse society. They are the hottest of hot... Read More
How to Speak the GOP's Language • 6m ▶
• The Wall Street Journal • February 24, 2000
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John McCain's victory in Michigan was impressive, but he would have lost badly if not for the crossover votes of Democrats and independents. The crucial March 7 primaries in California and New York are both closed to non- Republicans, so Mr. McCain must now concentrate on winning GOP votes. One issue can win him the... Read More
The End of White America: An Exchange
• Commentary • February 1, 2000
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Responses to The End of White America by Sean Walsh, James W. Wilson, Mark Krikorian, Fred C. Ikle, Edward Blum, Arthur Kruger, Jay P. Greene, Hal Netkin, and Jared Taylor, with reply by Ron Unz. TO THE EDITOR: Readers of COMMENTARY who are not knowledgeable about the events surrounding the passage of three important ballot... Read More
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California and the End of White America • 1h5m ▶
The unprecedented racial transformation of California and its political consequences.
• Commentary • October 17, 1999
• 8,600 Words • 123 Comments • Reply
Californians of European ancestry---"whites"---became a minority near the end of the 1980s, and this unprecedented ethnic transformation is probably responsible for the rise of a series of ethnically-charged political issues such as immigration, affirmative action, and bilingual education, as seen in Propositions 187, 209, and 227. Since America as a whole is undergoing the same... Read More
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The Right Kind of Outreach for the GOP • 20m ▶
• The Weekly Standard • March 1, 1999
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Republican leaders, worried about their party's lack of success among ethnic minorities, are reaching for just the wrong remedy. The GOP, they say, should stress symbolic ethnic outreach, while downplaying its principled opposition to affirmative action, bilingual education, and multiculturalism. As a result, "diversity" is now a watchword in GOP candidate selection, choice of convention... Read More
New Yorkers Hate Bilingual Ed
• City Journal • January 1, 1999
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For 25 years, California’s indefensible bilingual-ed system forced many of the state’s 1.3 million non-English-speaking children to take their classes in their native tongue, guaranteeing that few became proficient in the English they need to succeed in America. No more: in June, Californians overwhelmingly supported Proposition 227, a ballot initiative junking the system in favor... Read More
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Some Minorities Are More Minor Than Others • 6m ▶
• The Wall Street Journal • November 16, 1998
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With the victory of Washington state's Initiative 200, which ends affirmative action in government hiring, contracting and education, supporters of racial preferences have asked us to imagine an America in which members of some ethnic groups are virtually excluded not only from state university campuses but elite institutions in general. But no imagination is actually... Read More
Alpert-Firestone: Recipe for Chaos
Giving school boards total authority over methods means potential for reversal at every local election
• The Los Angeles Times • February 26, 1998
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If a pending state Senate bill purporting to reform bilingual education becomes law, it could ignite ethnic tensions in California for years to come. The fundamental principle behind the bill, co-sponsored by Sen. Dede Alpert (D-Coronado) and Assemblyman Brooks Firestone (R-Los Olivos), is local control--namely, placing most decisions on language acquisition policy in the hands... Read More
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Bilingualism vs. Bilingual Education • 7m ▶
A system that ensures failure is kept alive by the flow of federal dollars. A 1998 initiative would bring change
• The Los Angeles Times • October 19, 1997
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As each new microchip and fiber-optic cable shrinks the circumference of our world, more and more Americans recognize the practical importance of bilingualism. Even today, entrepreneurs or employees fluent in Chinese, Japanese or Spanish have a distinct edge over their English-only peers. But if other languages such as Chinese or Spanish are of growing world... Read More
Big Brother, Meet Big Sister
• The Los Angeles Times • June 12, 1995
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Timothy McVeigh, alleged perpetrator of the Oklahoma City bombing, is said to have believed that, while he was in the Army, the government implanted a microchip tracking device in his buttocks. Most of us would dismiss this as the ravings of an obvious madman. But to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, McVeigh is just a bit ahead... Read More
Immigration Mockery
• The Los Angeles Times • May 21, 1995
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The revelation that Gov. Pete Wilson, leading scourge of the undocumented, had himself employed an illegal immigrant housekeeper will certainly deepen our political cynicism. Wilson joins the sorry band of hypocrites Dianne Feinstein and Michael Huffington, both of whom made the crusade against illegal immigration the centerpiece of their senatorial campaigns and were then revealed... Read More
Immigrants and American Values • 6m ▶
• The Rockford Institute Family in America • May 1, 1995
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Immigrant alarmists often claim that current policies are leading America to a "clash of cultures." There is certainly some truth in this claim, but an actual analysis of which cultures are clashing, and why, might surprise many conservatives. Consider a recent book on California's Mexican immigrants written by a group of social-service professionals from the... Read More
CCRI vs. Prop. 187 • 7m ▶
• The Los Angeles Times • March 12, 1995
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California, the leader in national trends, is approaching another crossroads: We can confront the challenges of our ethnic diversity either through the means symbolized by last November's Proposition 187 or by those of the proposed civil rights ballot initiative. Although it began as a measure eliminating government benefits for illegal immigrants, by the end of... Read More
Them vs. Unz: A Debate on Immigration
• Policy Review • January 1, 1995
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Lawrence Auster, Vernon M. Briggs, Lawrence W. Fuchs, George B. High, Donald L. Huddle, Fred C. Ikle, Alan C. Nelson, Daniel A. Stein Ron K. Unz, in 'Immigration or the Welfare State' (Fall 1994), challenged the notion that out-of-control immigration is fueling a host of social and economic problems, from crime to welfare dependency to... Read More
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Value Added: Why National Review Is Wrong About Immigration • 14m ▶
Immigrants are a net benefit to the nation and a natural Republican constituency---if the party doesn't blow it
• National Review • November 7, 1994
• 1,900 Words • 1 Comment • Reply
This journal has performed a valuable service by clarifying the immigration debate. Rather than choosing the safe path of attacking only illegal immigration, NR has correctly pointed out that illegal immigration is dwarfed by legal immigration; that legal and illegal immigration share a wide range of important characteristics; and that most of the key arguments... Read More
Sinking Our State • 11m ▶
• Reason • November 1, 1994
• 1,500 Words • 1 Comment • Reply
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then the Save Our State immigration initiative on California's November ballot represents a superhighway. At first glance, the measure, which prevents illegal immigrants from receiving public benefits, might appear quite attractive to opponents of California's overgrown social welfare state. After all, if rolling back the... Read More
Against Prop. 187
• The Los Angeles Times • October 3, 1994
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In 1942, during a period of sharp wartime hysteria, Californians blackened our state's good name by overwhelmingly endorsing the imprisonment of all Japanese Americans, most of them native-born U.S. citizens and nearly all deeply loyal to America. Only one member of Congress, Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, the leading conservative Republican of his day, opposed... Read More
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Immigration or the Welfare State? • 31m ▶
Which Is Our Real Enemy?
• Policy Review • September 1, 1994
• 4,100 Words • 6 Comments • Reply
Immigration has recently become a lightning rod for America's deepest fears of social chaos and national decline. Millions worry that immigration is rapidly transforming America into a third-world country, with crowded, violent cities, under-educated and low-skilled labor, and an ethnic spoils system replacing America's tradition of constitutionalism and individual rights. Concerns are rising that immigrants... Read More
How to Grab the Immigration Issue • 7m ▶
• The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 1994
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The Republican Party has within its grasp long-term political control over several states, including California and Texas, the nation's two largest (the Census Bureau reported this week that New York has slipped to third place). If it misses this historic opportunity, the consequences will probably not be victories for the Democrats, but instead the likely... Read More
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