{"id":36,"date":"2025-07-03T05:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altrightbook.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2025-07-03T05:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:02:35","slug":"alden-whitfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altrightbook.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/03\/alden-whitfeld\/","title":{"rendered":"Alden Whitfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m subscribed to <em>Aporia <\/em>on Substack, so today I got to read an article by a relative newcomer, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AldenWhitfeld\" title=\"\">Alden Whitfeld<\/a>, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aporiamagazine.com\/p\/externalities-from-low-skilled-migration\" title=\"\">economic impact of immigration<\/a>, which was interesting. Here&#8217;s a key punch he puts out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not really. The truth is that even&nbsp;<em>this<\/em>&nbsp;is being charitable. While some specialization may occur, the negative externalities imposed by low-skilled immigration overwhelm the modest benefits it may confer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I address this in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0DTK8L3X3?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520\" title=\"\">my book<\/a>, of course, where I bring up Garret Jones&#8217; analysis of &#8220;O-ring teams,&#8221; yadda yadda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that isn&#8217;t all. Alden has a <a href=\"https:\/\/hereticalinsights.substack.com\/\" title=\"\">whole blog<\/a> on Substack where he addresses various issues of importance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hereticalinsights.substack.com\/p\/we-really-dont-need-more-foreign\" title=\"\">We Really Don\u2019t Need More Foreign Students<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hereticalinsights.substack.com\/p\/black-crime-1870-2020\" title=\"\">Black Crime, 1870-2020<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hereticalinsights.substack.com\/p\/immigrants-from-where\" title=\"\">Immigrants from Where?<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hereticalinsights.substack.com\/p\/the-price-of-racial-diversity\" title=\"\">The Price of Racial Diversity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lots to read here. Definitely an author I&#8217;ll be keeping an eye on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m subscribed to Aporia on Substack, so today I got to read an article by a relative newcomer, Alden Whitfeld, on the economic impact of immigration, which was interesting. Here&#8217;s a key punch he puts out: Not really. The truth is that even&nbsp;this&nbsp;is being charitable. While some specialization may occur, the negative externalities imposed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-substack"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altrightbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altrightbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altrightbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altrightbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altrightbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.altrightbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.altrightbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altrightbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altrightbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altrightbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}