VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow writes: 25 years ago tonight, April 16 1995, I was holed up in a Manhattan hotel room, paid for I am happy to say by Random House, with a very pregnant wife and infant son, about to begin the publicity tour for Alien Nation, which kicked off next day with an early morning NBC Today interview by Bryant Gumbel.
It was during what John Derbyshire and I now call “The Interglacial,” the brief period after the collapse of the Soviet Union but before the Left reinvented itself as Cultural Marxist Enforcer of Political Correctness and Identity Politics. Immigration had long been out of public debate and a surprising number of people were willing to discuss the issue—at first.
Alien Nation even got not one but two respectful reviews in the New York Times. Incredible as it may seem, everyone on both sides expected some sort of patriotic immigration reform imminently. It took a great deal of lying and lobbying to bottle the issue up again and keep it effectively out of politics for another two decades. ...
https://vdare.com/articles/re-reading-peter-brimelow-s-alien-nation-25-years-later
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