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Alexander Kustov, Hanno Hilbig, Aubrey Westfall, Alejandro Iribas, Steven Denney, Gil GuerraOn policies that work and earn public support
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Honest Nationalism Is Rarer Than You Think
Five years ago I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina—one of the fastest-growing cities in the US—for my first faculty job. What struck me first was how hostile otherwise good folks there were to newcomers of one particular kind. Regular Char...
Why Attracting Top Talent Should Come First
This essay is a follow-up to my Washington Post piece and a companion to a recent talk I gave at the Progress Conference 2026. It is specifically addressed to people who already favor (skilled) immigration and care about economic growth (th...
How to Do Fact-Checking Right in the Era of AI
I’m excited to welcome a new guest essay by Steven Denney, a political scientist at Leiden University who writes Pixels and Patterns. It continues our more practical series on professional writing with AI tools. Although this one might seem...
Why Governments Don't Have to Restrict Immigration to Save Democracy
I keep getting questions from folks asking whether I’ve become a reactionary conservative. Well, here is one of my more liberal takes for you, if you wish. I originally published this research note in 2024 for the European University Instit...
How Australia Already Made Immigration Popular and How to Keep It That Way
As many of my readers know, Canada has done more than any other country to shape how I think about immigration done better, which is why I keep coming back to it. But the question I get almost every time I write about it is "what about Aust...
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Author of "In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular." Professor. Immigration, public opinion, governance, AI.
Asst. Prof., UC Davis
Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts
Anotaciones sobre economía, cultura y política.
Steven Denney is an assistant professor at Leiden University and an affiliated researcher with the Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH).
Latin America @ Hudson, Contributing Writer at The Dispatch.
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