Peter Brimelow

Peter Brimelow
Born	(1947-10-13) October 13, 1947 Warrington, Cheshire, England
Nationality	English
Citizenship	naturalized U.S. citizen
Education	University of Sussex, B.A. (with honors), 1970 Stanford University, M.B.A., 1972
Occupation(s)	financial journalist, author
Employers	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
Spouse(s)	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
Parent(s)	Frank Sanderson (a transport executive) Bessie (Knox) Brimelow
Awards	Fulbright Fellowship, United States Department of State, 1970 Commonwealth Universities scholar, 1970 National Business Writing Award, Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto Press Club, 1976 National Business Writing Citations, Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto Press Club, 1977, 1978 Gerald Loeb Award, Anderson School at the University of California at Los Angeles, 1990
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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.

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

Born in 1947 in Warrington, Cheshire, England, Brimelow studied at the University of Sussex (BA, 1970) and received an MBA from Stanford University in 1972. 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 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." 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."

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". His website VDARE has been rated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white nationalist hate group. Brimelow responded by calling the SPLC a "treason group."

Brimelow appeared on a panel discussing multiculturalism during 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.The "The Ed Show" (February 10, 2012) discussed Brimelow's CPAC appearance and called him a "white nationalist" and "racist."

Writings

• The Wall Street gurus : how you can profit from investment`newsletters (1st ed.). New York, NY: Random House. 1986. ISBN 0394542029. LCCN 85-28153.
• The Patriot Game: National Dreams and Political Realities. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Key Porter Books. 1986. ISBN 1550130013. LCCN 86-228891.

published as The Patriot Game: Canada and the Canadian Question Revisited. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press. 1987. ISBN 0817986812. LCCN 87-17145.

• The Enemies of Freedom. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform. 1990. LCCN 92-219523.
• Alien Nation: Common Sense about America's Immigration Disaster (1st ed.). New York, NY: Random House. 1995. ISBN 067943058X. LCCN 94-12478.

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. Retrieved 2012-02-12.</ref>

• The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education. New York, NY: HarperCollins. 2003. ISBN 0060096616. LCCN 2002-27586.
• (Contributor) to The Debate in the United States over Immigration. Hoover. 1997.
• contributor of articles and reviews to magazines, including
  • Harper's
  • Canadian Business
  • National Review
  • Human Events
  • Policy Review
  • Saturday Night
• Columnist, CBS Marketwatch, columnist, 2002
• Guest writer for editorial page, Wall Street Journal, 1978

External links

• Official VDARE.com
• Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report on Brimelow
• Booknotes interview with Brimelow on Alien Nation, June 11, 1995.