Removing all immigration restrictions is a pretty fringe idea. There are reasons for that, as a careful reading of this defense at Vox will show. Dylan Matthews is trying to justify an ideological belief by claiming that indulging it will have no costs on anyone, and what costs it does have can be compensated, and anyway those costs don’t matter because the gains to non-Americans are so much greater.
He makes those second two points because his claim that there are no costs is complete bullshit.
Some Vox columnists have a skill at making me recoil from positions I hold. That is some sort of talent.
Is it worth fisking the article? I will, but only if there is demand.
Feh, it's Vox.
Dylan Matthews, like Yglesias, always had limited, precious, Harvard bull session tilt to his writing that has made me recoil.
But this kind of shit is a brand feature, not a brand bug, do not engage.
Posted by: McDevite | July 30, 2015 at 12:57 PM
It feels like the progressive equivalent of, I dunno, some right-wing groupthink website.
There are exceptions. Klein is good, if biased towards the conventional wisdom, and their energy guy is very VERY good.
But overall, you're right. It's just weird. They do very with it though, right? My impression has been that they're getting major traffic and good ad revenue.
Posted by: Noel Maurer | July 30, 2015 at 01:00 PM