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Nationality
  
English

Role
  
Writer

Name
  
Peter Brimelow

Religion
  
Episcopalian


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Born
  
October 13, 1947 (age 76) (
1947-10-13
)
Warrington, Cheshire, England

Citizenship
  
Naturalized U.S. citizen

Occupation
  
Financial journalist, author

Employer
  
1972–73 investment analyst, Richardson Securities of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada1973–76 assistant editor, Financial Post, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,1976–78 business editor and columnist, Maclean's, Toronto,1978–80 columnist and contributing editor, Financial Post, Ontario, Canada1980–81, 1988–90 economic counsel to Senator Orrin G. Hatch, U.S. Senate Staff, Washington, DC1981–83 associate editor, Fortune, New York1980–82 columnist, associate editor, Toronto Sun, Toronto1984–86 contributing editor, Fortune, New York, NY1983–84 associate editor, Fortune, New York, NY1984–86 columnist and contributing editor, Chief Executive (magazine), New York, NY1984–86 contributing editor, Influence, Toronto1986–90 Times, London, England1986–2002 senior editor, Forbes, New York, NY1993–98 senior editor, National Review, New York, NY1999– editor, VDARE.com1999– president, Center for American Unity (nonprofit organization), Warrenton, VAc. 2002 senior fellow, Pacific Research Institute, San Francisco

Spouse(s)
  
Margaret Alice Laws (b. 1953, d. 2004), m. 1980-2004 (her death)Lydia E. Sullivan (b. 1984), m. 2007-present

Residence
  
Litchfield, Connecticut, United States

Books
  
Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster

Similar People
  
Jared Taylor, John Derbyshire, Pat Buchanan, Paul Weston, Steve Sailer

Organizations founded
  
VDARE Foundation

What Price Mass Immigration - Peter Brimelow Introduction


Peter Brimelow (born 13 October 1947) is a British-born American writer. He is the founder of the webzine VDARE, which has been described as a white supremacist web-site and group by various publications, a description rejected by Brimelow. Brimelow was previously a writer and editor at the National Review. Brimelow founded the Center for American Unity in 1999 and served as its first president. He describes himself as a paleoconservative. Until September 2012, he was a columnist for Dow Jones' MarketWatch. Brimelow has also been described as a leader within the alt-right movement.

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Life and career

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Brimelow was born in 1947 in Warrington, Cheshire, England, the son of Bessie (née Knox) and Frank Sanderson Brimelow, a transport executive. Brimelow (and his twin brother) studied at the University of Sussex (BA, 1970) and Stanford University (MBA, 1972). Brimelow later immigrated to Canada. After a brief stint as a securities analyst, he settled in Toronto, becoming a business writer and editor at the Financial Post and Maclean's magazine. From 1978–80, he was an aide to Senator Orrin Hatch.

In 1980, Brimelow moved to New York, working for Barron's Magazine and Fortune. He was the senior editor of Forbes magazine from 1986 to 2002.

Brimelow was married to Maggy Laws-Brimelow (1953–2004) until her death. He and Maggy had two children, a son (Alexander) and daughter (Hannah-Claire). After Maggy's death he married Lydia Sullivan, a Heritage Foundation intern, in 2007. They had their first child, Felicity Deonne Brimelow, in August 2010 and Karia Sybil Nancy Brimelow on 13 June 2012. Their third daughter, Victoria Beauregard Brimelow, was born on 6 February 2015.

In 1986, Brimelow published The Patriot Game: National Dreams and Political Realities, a book partly based on Goldwin Smith's Canada and the Canadian Question, published in 1891. Brimelow's book helped starting the Reform Party of Canada in 1987 and motivated supporters of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Brimelow's later books include the best-seller Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster, The Wall Street Gurus: How You Can Profit from Investment Newsletters, and The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education.

Alien Nation deals with immigration policy and the influx of legal and illegal aliens. The Worm in the Apple discusses public education and teachers' unions, considering unions as "highly destructive." Among views in The Worm in the Apple: "to attempt so far-reaching a goal as universal high school education is foolish." Ilana Mercer and John O'Sullivan praised the book. For the Hoover Institution journal Education Next, public policy consultant George Mitchell wrote: "Brimelow... demonstrates how collective bargaining for teachers has produced labor agreements that stifle innovation and risk taking. He makes it clear that the dramatic rise in influence enjoyed by the teacher unions has coincided with stagnant and unacceptable levels of student performance." However, in the same journal article, education consultant Julia E. Koppich took a more critical angle: "... Brimelow uses a variety of linguistic devices to drive home his points. But his over-the-top language soon grates on the nerves... His argument is not that teacher unions are destroying American education, but that they labor long and hard to preserve the status quo... But this book contains so little about education-virtually nothing about classrooms, schools, or districts-even that point gets lost." Koppich called the book "an anti-public school polemic."

Brimelow has appeared as a guest on The Political Cesspool, a "pro-white" talk-radio show. Following the 2008 United States elections, he advocated that to win, the Republican Party should focus on "white votes". His website VDARE has been rated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white nationalist hate group.

Brimelow appeared on a panel discussing multiculturalism during the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC 2012), and gave a talk titled "The Failure of Multiculturalism: How the pursuit of diversity is weakening the American Identity." In the face of condemnation from MSNBC and PFTAW, Al Cardenas of the American Conservative Union denied knowing him or his reputation.

Brimelow is mentioned in the acknowledgments of Ann Coulter's ¡Adios, America!: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole.

Criticism

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has called VDARE a hate group, that was "once a relatively mainstream anti-immigration page", but by 2003 became "a meeting place for many on the radical right". The SPLC also criticized VDARE for publishing articles by white nationalists Jared Taylor and Sam Francis. It has been called "white nationalist" by the Rocky Mountain News, although Brimelow himself denies being a white nationalist. It has also been described as white supremacist.

VDARE also published several articles attacking the SPLC in response.

Writings

  • The Wall Street Gurus: How You Can Profit from Investment Newsletters (1st ed.). New York City: Random House. 1986. ISBN 0-394-54202-9. LCCN 85028153. 
  • The Patriot Game: National Dreams and Political Realities. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Key Porter Books. 1986. ISBN 1-55013-001-3. LCCN 86228891. 
  • Also published as The Patriot Game: Canada and the Canadian Question Revisited. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press. 1987. ISBN 0-8179-8681-2. LCCN 87017145. 
  • The Enemies of Freedom. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform. 1990. LCCN 92219523. 
  • Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster (1st ed.). New York, NY: Random House. 1995. ISBN 0-679-43058-X. LCCN 94012478. 
  • Also see: letter to the editor, responding to critics – Brimelow, Peter (27 June 1995). "Immigration and Bad Social Policies Don't Mix; A White Ethnic Core". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-02-12. 
  • The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education. New York, NY: HarperCollins. 2003. ISBN 0-06-009661-6. LCCN 2002027586. 
  • References

    Peter Brimelow Wikipedia