Tear down this fence!
It may not last, but the breaching of the Gaza-Egypt border for voluntary movement and trade is a wonderful thing: Official reaction to the day’s events ranged from dismay to embarrassment to outright...
View ArticleThe American citizen race
Where have the immigrants gone? in the Chicago Tribune on the impact of Oklahoma’s new apartheid law, HB 1804, the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection[ist] Act: “You really have to work hard at it...
View ArticleCalifornia nightmare
Some of the best points are blindingly obvious. Will Wilkinson on good peopleracists who advocate apartheid: Presently, whites are well less than half the Cailfornian population. Hispanics make up just...
View ArticleUnderprivileged Americans
Keith Wolfe, Global Mobility Manager (cool title) writes on the Google Policy Blog: Google hires employees based on skills and qualifications, not on nationality. Great, Google doesn’t have an...
View ArticleOccupation ethics
Philippe Legrain: British troops are dying in Afghanistan because the government deems the Taliban such a terrible threat. Yet those who flee the Taliban and the war are denied asylum in this country....
View ArticleCollaborative Futures 5
We finished the text of Collaborative Futures on the book sprint’s fifth day and I added yet another chapter intended for the “future” section. This one may be the oddest in the whole book. You have to...
View ArticleSomeday knowing the ins and outs of copyright will be like knowing the...
Said Evan Prodromou, who I keep quoting. I repeat Evan as a reminder and apology. I’ve blogged many times about copyright licenses in the past, and will have a few detailed posts on the subject soon in...
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The world has summarily discarded vast systems of restrictions on the labor...
I highly recommend the paper Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk? (pdf, summary) by Michael Clemens as well as a companion materials (mp3 interview). Clemens surveys the...
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Migration is Natural
The mural pictured above is around the corner from where I live. I’m happy to find out that it means what I hoped — though I’d be surprised if the muralists didn’t arrive via some very different...
View ArticleExtra-jurisdictional voting
Are there any jurisdictions that permit or encourage people who are neither residents nor citizens to vote? Assuming each voter on average contributes something to good governance, why not as many as...
View ArticlePat Choate and Intellectual Protectionism
From at least the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s Pat Choate seemed to me to be the go-to pundit for anti-foreign (where “foreign” means “not USian”) punditry. His basic view seemed to be that foreign...
View ArticleOpposing “illegal” immigration is xenophobic, or more bluntly, advocating for...
Italy’s new government includes two naturalized citizens,Cécile Kyenge, minister of integration, born in Congo, and Josefa Idem, minister of equal opportunity and sport, born in Germany. Some excerpts...
View Article88% of the US urban population is in NYC
The greatest concentration of the highest densities is in New York, which has 88 percent of the national population living at more than 25,000 per square mile (approximately 10,000 per square...
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Do we have any scrap of evidence that [the Chinese Exclusion Act] made us...
Michael Clemens, about 70 minutes into a podcast interview says no. I’d have liked to hear more, but this was just a passing mention in a somewhat abstract conversation about Clemens’ paper Economics...
View ArticleHypercity
Comment by Max Read on one of many articles about the hyperloop idea promoted by Elon Musk (apparently [edit: somewhat] similar ideas have been around for awhile, including the descriptively named...
View ArticleAbolish Foreignness
Searching for background info for a forthcoming post on a boring topic that should be forgotten, I found the research of Michael Curtotti, and was tickled to find he also has papers on human rights and...
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Annual thematic doubt
Robert Stadler / CC-BY-SA As promised, my first annual thematic doubt post, expressing doubts I have about themes I blogged about during 2013. Intellectual Freedom If this blog were to have a main...
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Free Bassel & Open Borders Days
March 15, another year of Bassel Khartibil‘s life as a political prisoner in Syria. Some friends put together a cookbook (pdf) with meals they’d like to share with him when he is free. Macabre image...
View ArticleEmpowered Mozilla?
I don’t feel glad about Brendan Eich’s resignation as CEO of Mozilla, but it is probably for the best that it happened quickly. Even the President of the United States has changed his tune on same sex...
View ArticleThe jobs case for a police state
Partly to make up for not blogging on the issue in awhile (category), I recommend the Vox story/interview on the case for open borders. If a prediction can be sterile, sanguine, and desperate at one...
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