Christopher Caldwell on Europe’s Muslims
As Financial Times columnist Christopher Caldwell apologetically told a member of the Zócalo audience at the Hammer Museum, “I don’t do American immigration.” That wasn’t a problem for Caldwell, author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, to be released next summer. The challenges of mass Mexican and Central American immigration in the U.S. and mass African, Arab, and South Asian immigration to Western Europe might seem similar: the percent of immigrants in each society is roughly the same, and both societies have had contentious …
