Peter Brimelow

Peter Brimelow
Born (1947-10-13) 13 October 1947
Warrington, Lancashire, England
Residence Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality British
Citizenship Naturalized U.S. citizen
Education University of Sussex, BA (with honors), 1970
Stanford University, M.B.A., 1972
Occupation Financial journalist, author, columnist
Employer
Awards

Peter Brimelow (born 13 October 1947) is a British-born American magazine editor, writer, columnist, and former journalist. He is the founder of the webzine VDARE, which has been described as a white supremacist web-site[1][2][3], a description rejected by Brimelow.[4]

Brimelow was previously a writer and editor at the National Review,[5] and columnist for Dow Jones' MarketWatch.[6] Brimelow founded the Center for American Unity in 1999 and served as its first president. He describes himself as a paleoconservative.[7] Brimelow has also been described as a leader within the alt-right movement.[8]

Early life and education

Brimelow was born in 1947 in Warrington, Lancashire, 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).[9]

Career

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.

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.[10] Brimelow's later books include 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."[11] Among views in The Worm in the Apple: "to attempt so far-reaching a goal as universal high school education is foolish."[12] Ilana Mercer[13] and John O'Sullivan[14] 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."[15]

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".[16] His website VDARE has been rated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white nationalist hate group.[17][18]

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.[19]

Brimelow opposes both illegal and legal immigration.[20] He has referred to Spanish speaking immigrants as "completely dysfunctional. They're on welfare; they're not doing any kind of work - at least not legal work - and their children are having a terrible time. They're dropping out of school; there's an increase in teenage pregnancy".[20] He said California used to be a "paradise" but was "rapidly turning into hispanic slum" and was "totally overrun by barrios of illegal immigrants."[20] The Daily Beast describes Brimelow as a "white nationalist".[21]

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.[22]

Criticism

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has designated VDARE a hate group,[23][24][25] 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.[26] It has been called "white nationalist" by the Rocky Mountain News,[27] although Brimelow himself denies being a white nationalist.[28] It has also been described as white supremacist.[2]

VDARE has been described by the Anti-Defamation League as a racist anti-immigrant group. [29][30]

VDARE also published several articles attacking the SPLC in response.[31][32]

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.

Personal life

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.[33]

References

  1. ↑ Fernandes, Deepa (2011). Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration. Retrieved 2017-06-03.
  2. 1 2 Sam Frizell (2016-07-21). "GOP Shows White Supremacist's Tweet During Trump's Speech". Time. Retrieved 2017-06-03.
  3. ↑ "Steve Bannon's dangerous campaign to rebrand racism as American "nationalism"". Quartz. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  4. ↑ Brimelow, Peter (23 July 2006). "VDare.com is no 'white nationalist Web site'". Rocky Mountain News. p. 5.E.
  5. ↑ "Peter Brimelow – MarketWatch.com Topics". MarketWatch.com. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2012-02-12. Peter Brimelow has been an editor at Barron's, Fortune and Forbes and is the author of 'The Wall Street Gurus: How You Can Profit From Investment Newsletters.'
  6. ↑ http://www.marketwatch.com/Journalists/Peter_Brimelow
  7. ↑ Beirich, Heidi; Potok, Mark (Winter 2003). "'Paleoconservatives' Decry Immigration". Intelligence Report (112). Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  8. ↑ "Four lessons from the alt-right's D.C. coming-out party". Washington Post. September 30, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Ruth Cheney Streeter Weds". The New York Times. 19 January 1986. Retrieved 2012-02-13. ... John Brimelow, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Brimelow of Birkenhead, Merseyside, England... Peter Brimelow was his twin's best man.
  10. ↑ "That best political book contest: but what about real influence? - Macleans.ca". Macleans.ca. 2011-08-04. Retrieved 2018-01-10.
  11. ↑ Leef, George (4 November 2004). "No. 155: Worm in the Apple: Teachers Unions Operate Like Mafia". Carolina Journal. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  12. ↑ "A Monopoly of Ignorance", The Mises Review, 9 (3), Winter 2003, archived from the original on 2008-10-24
  13. ↑ Mercer, Ilana (20 February 2004). "'The Worm in the Apple' of American education". WorldNetDaily. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  14. ↑ O'Sullivan, John (20 May 2003). "Blame pain-in-the-neck unions for education bow tie". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 22 May 2003.
  15. ↑ Mitchell, George; Koppich, Julia E. (Spring 2004), "Teachers Unions", Education Next, 4 (2)
  16. ↑ Southern Poverty Law Center: VDARE: GOP Should Concentrate on Whites
  17. ↑ Splcenter.org Archived 11 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
  18. ↑ "VDARE". Intelligence Files. Southern Poverty Law Center. July 2011. Archived from the original on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  19. ↑ Caldwell, Leigh Ann (11 February 2012). "Immigration speaker sparks controversy at CPAC". CBS News. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  20. 1 2 3 "Immigration speaker sparks controversy at CPAC". Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  21. ↑ Obeidallah, Dean (2018-02-01). "Trump's Mainstreaming of 'Chain Migration': A White Supremacist's Dream". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  22. ↑ Coulter, Ann (2015). ¡Adios, America!: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hell Hole. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing. p. 280. ISBN 9781621576068. OCLC 949987257. Others who have helped with this book, mostly by reading chapters and voting on titles, but in other ways, as well, are: Bill Armistead, Jon Caldara, Peter Brimelow, Rodney Conover, Mallory and Thomas Danaher, David Friedman, James Fulford, Ron Gordon, Kevin Harrington, David Limbaugh, Jay Mann, Jim Moody, Dan Travers, Jon Tukel, Marshall Sella, Peter Thiel, Kelly Victory, and Younis Zubchevich.
  23. ↑ "VDARE". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  24. ↑ Kristine Phillips, Resort cancels 'white nationalist' organization's first-ever conference over the group’s views, Washington Post (January 26, 2017).
  25. ↑ VDARE Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  26. ↑ Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok. "'Paleoconservatives' Decry Immigration | Southern Poverty Law Center". Splcenter.org. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
  27. ↑ Flynn, Kevin (15 July 2006). "Funding questioned; Critics say some Defend Colorado money tainted". Rocky Mountain News. Denver, Colo. p. 4.A.
  28. ↑ Brimelow, Peter (23 July 2006). "VDare.com is no 'white nationalist Web site'". Rocky Mountain News. p. 5.E.
  29. ↑ "Brenda Walker and Dan Amato Inject Anti-Immigrant Fervor into the Blogosphere" (PDF). Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  30. ↑ "Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream" (PDF). Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  31. ↑ James Fulmore (May 30, 2001). "VDARE Endorsed by Southern Poverty Law Center! (Well, we regard it as an endorsement.)". Vdare.com. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  32. ↑ "04/23/05 – The Speech That Launched An SPLC "Hate" Honor". VDARE.com. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
  33. ↑ "Peter Brimelow writes: Miracles Happen!". VDare.com. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  • Official VDARE.com
  • Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report on Brimelow
  • "VDARE: GOP Should Concentrate on Whites". Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center (133). Spring 2009. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
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