Philippe Legrain

My article on why Europe should open its borders has been translated into Estonian and published in Äripäev. Read it here

K. G. E. (Chuck) Konkel has positively reviewed Immigrants in the (Toronto) Globe and Mail. Read the review here.

I spoke at the Edinburgh Book Festival on Friday, first off in a discussion with Paul Mason of BBC’s Newsnight, who has written an interesting book that draws parallels between the development of the international labour movement in the 19th century and the emergence of a global working class in the 21st century. It is [...]

Immigrants features on the Page 69 test, a bookish site run by Marshal Zeringue. Check it out.

This year, for the first time, over half of the people in the world live in a city, up from just one in ten in 1900. To celebrate this fact, London’s Tate Modern is putting on a really interesting exhibition on cities which I went to this week. It explores ten dynamic global cities through [...]

As Stephen Dubner points out on the Freakonomics blog, there is a fascinating and moving article in the New England Journal of Medicine by  Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, the director of the brain-tumour stem-cell laboratory at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

My new book, Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them, argues that immigration is generally a good thing. Now read the following "review" of it in the Washington Times by Peter Brimelow, a British-born but naturalised American journalist who argued in his anti-immigration polemic, Alien Nation: Common Sense about America’s Immigration Disaster, that “The racial and ethnic [...]

When some people lose an argument, they resort to defamation. Peter Brimelow, the author of anti-immigration polemic Alien Nation, claims in his "review" of Immigrants in the Washington Times that my grandparents left Estonia "with the Nazis". In fact, they fled from the Red Army to Sweden on a Red Cross refugee ship. Shame on [...]

by Lena Jordebo. Listen to it here

Bryce Bauer interviewed me in Roll Call: