Our Borders, Ourselves
November 6, 2019
PLEASE join with me in welcoming the publication of Our Borders, Ourselves: America in the Age of Multiculturalism by the late Lawrence Auster, a friend and mentor who died of cancer in 2013 and left a long unpublished manuscript, which I agreed to bring to his devoted fans. It took six years (six years!) to make that happen, but here at last is an abridged version of the book, published by Vdare.
From the back cover:
At its founding, immigration was integral in the formation of the United States of America. The melting pot was the essence of our beginning. The blending of diverse people overwhelmingly from Europe made the country an extension of the greatest of civilizations. When immigration was measured, when assimilation was demanded, and when our borders were controlled, America thrived. This diversity within limits enriched America. But in the last half century or so, when uncontrolled immigration from the world over was pushed upon us, when balkanization was encouraged, America faltered. “Diversity” became a deceptive catchword and a force hostile to cultural and natural distinctions. Illegal immigrants were welcomed by the millions. Eventually, we saw racial profiling in college admissions, politicians pitting groups of people against each other, and white becoming a bad word.
In Our Borders, Ourselves, genius conservative essayist Lawrence Auster details the fraud foisted upon the American people in the name of diversity. Published posthumously, Our Borders explains how the Immigration Act of 1965 led to the erasing of white America and the nihilist culture we live in today.
The granting of aggressive race consciousness to minority groups and the denial of it to the majority are only one part of the problem. This book identifies the principal ideas and forces–racial, political, psychological, moral, and religious–that are destroying American civilization and shows how those forces have been institutionalized and internalized by the American people themselves, including conservatives. Auster explains in detail the shift from classical liberalism to modern liberalism, which corresponds to the shift from self-respect to self-esteem.
Once a society has denied the existence of right and wrong, it has abandoned its own history and denied its own legitimacy. It has opened a Pandora’s Box of evils that, according to Auster, can never be returned whence they came.
Few writers on multiculturalism approach it with the erudition and keen insights that characterized the work of Lawrence Auster, whose website View from the Right remains online. Thank you to Lydia and Peter Brimelow of Vdare and to Geoffrey Stone, an editor from ClearWords Group, with whom I worked this spring and summer, for bringing this book to the light of day at long last.
Congratulations, Lawrence Auster, for a job well done!
