Not PC

"Milton Friedman once remarked that it was difficult to combine open borders with a welfare state. I thought about that observation w...

"Asked to explain Yugoslavia’s spectacular breakup, Vasić quipped : 'You must imagine a United States with every little TV stati...

"...even if we were 'the best people in the world,' or Nobel-Prize winning geniuses, we would not be allowed into Australia.......

"'Why haven’t you let them [refugees] out [from govt detention centres on Nauru & Manus Island]?' Trump asked [Australian P...

  There have been more modern fairy tales peddled about Sweden than even Hans Christian Andersen could dream up – and I don’t just mean wha...

  Our guest poster Harrison Searles is not suggesting this as a causal link in Rome’s fall, simply as one leading symptom that marked the...

  The only serious news this long weekend seemed to be the ill-conceived and poorly administered blanket ban on immigrants and refugees fro...

  Today’s quote was plucked out by a protestor from then Gov Mike Pence’s 2015 Twitter feed: .

  Ah, but refugees are just here to steal our jobs and bludge off welfare. Really? Have you ever thought that refugees make those dangero...

  If ever there were a man who demonstrated the principle of Benefits from Genius it is Aristotle – Aristotle, the founder of three scienc...

  “When poor people from poor countries try to enter rich countries, critics often deride them by saying, ‘Those aren't political ref...

  They flee from their place of danger and uncertainty to set out on wild seas in a flimsy vessel.   However dangerous the journey, it look...

  Many and sharp the num'rous ills Inwoven with our frame! More pointed still we make ourselves Regret, remorse, and shame! And man, w...

  The four biggest arguments I hear regularly here from commenters opposed to the right of free association as it applies to immigration (...

  Australia’s refugee detention programme is supposed to save the country* while saving the country money. Neither is true. Minister in c...

  This should surprise no-one: Australia’s offshore detention centres are intended to discourage applications for Australian refugee status...

  Okay now, a question for you for a bonus point: What’s the connection between the minimum wage, the idea of “race suicide,” of all those...

  Freedom unleashes benevolence, explains Wendy McElroy in this guest post. Syrian families are arriving in the sleepy corner of Souther...