The Baby Boom and Open Borders
In a post from earlier this summer, John asked, “Shouldn’t advocates of border controls who complain about population growth leading to more crime, more welfare payments, fewer jobs, and so on, be...
View ArticleHomes vs Detention Facilities
As many of you know, there has been a recent influx of immigrants coming to the US from countries in central America due to violence in that region. For example, Honduras may be more dangerous now...
View ArticleThe dearth of moderates’ critique of open borders
We’ve done a fair number of posts on the distinction between moderate and radical open borders. This post explores an important angle that we haven’t yet explored, and should be of particular interest...
View ArticleWhere I Dissent from Bryan Caplan
Since Bryan Caplan has been a sort of godfather/patron figure for this blog from the beginning, I thought it might be of interest to readers to outline a few points where I dissent from him. In...
View ArticleWeekly OBAG roundup 29 2014
This is part of a series of weekly posts with the most interesting content from the Open Borders Action Group on Facebook. Do join the group to weigh in on existing discussions or start your own (you...
View ArticleWeekly OBAG roundup 30 2014
This is part of a series of weekly posts with the most interesting content from the Open Borders Action Group on Facebook. Do join the group to weigh in on existing discussions or start your own (you...
View ArticleEquality of Opportunity
According to Dylan Matthews’ write-up of an interview with Bryan Caplan at Vox, Caplan’s elevator pitch is: “What would you think about a law that said that blacks couldn’t get a job without the...
View ArticleLet Us Dream Bigger: The Dreamer Movement Should Support Open Borders
I am a reluctant Dreamer. I naturally sympathize with the goal of my fellow Dreamers to see some version of the Dream Act passed, but I can’t help it think too small a dream. The Dream Act would...
View ArticleWeekly OBAG roundup 31 2014
This is part of a series of weekly posts with the most interesting content from the Open Borders Action Group on Facebook. Do join the group to weigh in on existing discussions or start your own (you...
View ArticleGlobal Citizenship
The article “The Global Citizen without a Country,” at Public Discourse, seemed worth linking to and quoting, as relevant to my friendly feud with Bryan Caplan, and to his long-running battles with...
View ArticleWeekly OBAG roundup 32 2014
This is part of a series of weekly posts with the most interesting content from the Open Borders Action Group on Facebook. Do join the group to weigh in on existing discussions or start your own (you...
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