Judith Sloan has a piece in the Weekend Australian that aims to convince us that immigration levels should be cut back. The annual intake of permanent migrants, excluding humanitarian entrants, is 190,000. She argues that current levels are a burden on current inhabitants through congestion, environmental pressures or housing affordability. She also says that some of… Continue reading The case for high immigration
I left this comment at Project Syndicate in response to some more of Jeffrey Sachs’ usual silliness: Arabs want and need a democratic revolution. They have had enough of the stagnant and oppressive swamp. The rest of the world, particularly the US and its allies should do what they can to assist. In some cases… Continue reading Jeffrey Sachs awful as usual
We have had quite a bit of progress on the democratic front in recent decades although there are still some very big and serious challenges. Let us look first at the progress. Latin America is no longer run by military dictators and they are becoming the exception in sub-Saharan Africa. Then of course there is… Continue reading The battle for democracy
Different Wavelength 