The idea of governing a country for the benefit of the people who actually live in it doesn't seem terribly radical but suggesting it today makes you some sort of extremist.

Review: Caldwell Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West

• "For all the lip service paid to diversity, people tend to flee it."

• "Real discussions—about the increasing 'diversity' of European society and whether it was a good or a bad thing—were all but shut down."

• "To express misgivings about immigration was to confess racist inclinations."

• "Immigrants and their children were at liberty to express politically their wishes as a people, in a way that European natives were not."

• Europe is "not dealing with an ordinary immigration problem at all, but with an adversary culture."

• After the 2005 French riots "there was a desire, verging on desperation, to explain the riots as being due to some misconduct of the majority society."

• "Europeans fear their individual countries are slowly escaping their political control, and they are right, although they can seldom spell out precisely how."

• Europeans live in internal exile, "cut off by economic and cultural changes from the world they thought they would inhabit."

• Immigration "means importing not just factors of production but factors of social change."

• "In no country in Europe does the bulk of the population aspire to live in a bazaar of world cultures."