Peter Brimelow

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Peter Brimelow
Born October 13, 1947 (1947-10-13) (age 64)
Warrington, Cheshire, England
Residence Litchfield, Connecticut
Nationality English
Citizenship naturalized U.S. citizen
Education University of Sussex, B.A. (with honors), 1970
Stanford University, M.B.A., 1972
Occupation financial journalist, author
Employer
  • 1972-73 investment analyst, Richardson Securities of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
  • 1973-76 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, Canada
  • 1980-81, 1988-90 economic counsel to Senator Orrin G. Hatch, U.S. Senate Staff, Washington, DC
  • 1981-83 associate editor, Fortune, New York
  • 1980-82 columnist, associate editor, Toronto Sun, Toronto
  • 1984-86 contributing editor, Fortune, New York, NY
  • 1983-84 associate editor, Fortune, New York, NY
  • 1984-86 columnist and contributing editor, Chief Executive Magazine, New York, NY
  • 1984-86 contributing editor, Influence, Toronto
  • 1986-90 Times, London, England
  • 1986-2002 senior editor, Forbes, New York, NY
  • 1993-98 senior editor, National Review, New York, NY
  • 1999-- editor, VDARE.com
  • 1999-- president, Center for American Unity (nonprofit organization), Warrenton, VA
  • c. 2002 senior fellow, Pacific Research Institute, San Francisco, CA
Known for questioning U.S. immigration policy
being called a racist
Religion Episcopalian
Spouse Margaret Alice Laws (an investment banker), September 20, 1980 (died, 2004)
Lydia E. Sullivan (b. ~1984), February 24, 2007
Children Alexander James Frank
Hannah Claire Catherine
Parents Frank Sanderson (a transport executive)
Bessie (Knox) Brimelow
Relatives twin brother John
Awards
Notes

Peter Brimelow (born 1947) is a British American financial journalist, author, and founder of VDARE. Brimelow has been the editor of many publications, including Forbes, the Financial Post, and National Review. Outside financial circles, he is known for his writings on immigration policy and for hosting the website VDARE.com.[4][5]

Brimelow founded the Center for American Unity in 1999 and served as its first president, though he is no longer affiliated with the organization. He is a paleoconservative[6]

Born in 1947 in Warrington, Cheshire, England, Brimelow (and his twin brother) studied at the University of Sussex (BA, 1970) and Stanford University (MBA, 1972.)[3] Brimelow subsequently emigrated 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 at Maclean's magazine. From 1978-80, he was an aide to senator Orrin Hatch in Washington D.C.

In 1980 he moved to New York, working mainly for Barron's and Fortune. Brimelow was senior editor of Forbes Magazine from 1986 to 2002. He was married to Maggy Laws Brimelow (1953–2004), a Canadian, until her death following an eight-year battle with breast cancer. He and his first wife had two children, a son (Alexander Brimelow) and a daughter (Hannah-Claire Brimelow). He married Lydia Sullivan, a 22-year old Heritage Foundation intern, in 2007; they had their first child, Felicity Brimelow in August 2010.

In 1986 Brimelow published The Patriot Game: National Dreams and Political Realities, a book inspired partly by Goldwin Smith's Canada and the Canadian Question, published in 1891. Brimelow's book helped galvanize the founding of the Reform Party of Canada in 1987 and inspired[citation needed] a number of individuals who now work in the government of Stephen Harper.

Brimelow's later books include the national 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 illegal aliens as well as legal immigrants. The Worm in the Apple discusses public education and teachers' unions, considering unions "highly destructive."[7] Among views in The Worm in the Apple: "to attempt so far-reaching a goal as universal high school education is foolish."[8] Ilana Mercer[9] and John O'Sullivan[10] 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."[11]

He has appeared as a guest on The Political Cesspool, a pro-white talk-radio show. Following the 2008 elections, Brimelow advocated that to win elections, the Republican Party should focus on "white votes".[12] His website VDARE has been rated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white nationalist hate group.[13][14] Brimelow responded by calling the SPLC a "treason group."[15]

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." During the panel discussion, Brimelow and other panelists said "immigration is polluting America." In the face of condemnation from MSNBC and PFTAW, Al Cardenas of the American Conservative Union denied knowing him or his reputation.[16]

Ed Schultz of "The Ed Show" (February 10, 2012) discussed Brimelow's CPAC appearance and called him a "white nationalist" and "racist." Ed Show guest Mike Papantonio said Peter Brimelow is "the new David Duke" and that Brimelow is the one who said "Jews are killing America." Guest Goldie Taylor said Brimelow represents the same strain of "racialized populism" seen several times in American history and now embraced by the Republican Party.[17]

[edit] Writings

published as The Patriot Game: Canada and the Canadian Question Revisited. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press. 1987. ISBN 0817986812. LCCN 87-17145. 
letter to the editor, responding to critics Brimelow, Peter (June 27, 1995). "Immigration and Bad Social Policies Don't Mix; A White Ethnic Core". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/27/opinion/l-immigration-and-bad-social-policies-don-t-mix-a-white-ethnic-core-939595.html. Retrieved 2012-02-12. </ref>

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Peter Brimelow" (fee, via Fairfax County Public Library). Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. 2006. GALE|H1000012109. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=BIC1&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000012109&mode=view&userGroupName=fairfax_main&jsid=caa8ac32c4ed00ad1132b7c97424e3b5. Retrieved 2012-02-12. . Gale Biography In Context. (subscription required)
  2. ^ Brimelow, Peter (March 17, 2007). "VDARE.com: 03/17/07 - Another Personal Message From Peter Brimelow". VDARE.com. http://128.241.61.184/pb/070317_wedding.htm. Retrieved 2012-02-12. 
  3. ^ a b "Ruth Cheney Streeter Weds". The New York Times. January 19, 1986. http://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/19/style/ruth-cheney-streeter-weds.html. 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." 
  4. ^ NYT editorial board (January 31, 2009), "The Nativists Are Restless", The New York Times: p. WK8, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/opinion/01sun1.html, retrieved 2012-02-12 
  5. ^ "Peter Brimelow - MarketWatch.com Topics". MarketWatch.com. Wall Street Journal. http://www.marketwatch.com/Journalists/Peter_Brimelow. 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. ^ Beirich, Heidi; Potok, Mark (Winter 2003). "'Paleoconservatives' Decry Immigration". Intelligence Report (112). http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2003/winter/keeping-america-white. Retrieved 2012-02-12. 
  7. ^ Leef, George (November 4, 2004). "No. 155: Worm in the Apple: Teachers Unions Operate Like Mafia". Carolina Journal. http://www.carolinajournal.com/opinions/display_story.html?id=1941. Retrieved July 16, 2011. 
  8. ^ "A Monopoly of Ignorance", The Mises Review 9 (3), Winter 2003, http://mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=241 
  9. ^ Mercer, Ilana (February 20, 2004). "'The Worm in the Apple' of American education". WorldNetDaily. http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37213. Retrieved July 16, 2011. 
  10. ^ O'Sullivan, John (May 20, 2003). "Blame pain-in-the-neck unions for education bow tie". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on May 22, 2003. http://web.archive.org/web/20030522032953/http://www.suntimes.com/output/osullivan/cst-edt-osul20.html. 
  11. ^ Mitchell, George; Koppich, Julia E. (Spring 2004), "Teachers Unions", Education Next 4 (2), http://educationnext.org/teachers-unions/ 
  12. ^ Southern Poverty Law Center: VDARE: GOP Should Concentrate on Whites
  13. ^ Splcenter.org
  14. ^ "VDARE". Intelligence Files. Southern Poverty Law Center. July 2011. http://www.splcenter.org/vdare-foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-13. 
  15. ^ Brimelow, Peter (January 10, 2004). "American Renaissance's Conferences: Talking About The Taboo". VDARE. http://www.vdare.com/articles/american-renaissances-conferences-talking-about-the-taboo. Retrieved 2012-02-13. "Peter Brimelow writes: VDARE.COM has just been named a Hate Group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the notorious Treason Group." 
  16. ^ Caldwell, Leigh Ann (February 11, 2012). "Immigration speaker sparks controversy at CPAC". CBS News. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57374439-503544/immigration-speaker-sparks-controversy-at-cpac/. Retrieved 2012-02-12. 
  17. ^ "White Nationalist Leader Peter Brimelow Among Panelists at CPAC". Crooks and Liars. February 10, 2012. http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/white-nationalist-leader-peter-brimelow-am. Retrieved 2012-02-15. 

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