Education
Caldwell was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and is a graduate of Harvard College, where he studied English literature.
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His writing also frequently appears in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, where he is a contributing editor to the paper"s magazine, and The Washington Post. He was also a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Press and the assistant managing editor of The American Spectator. He has five children.
The Economist newspaper called it "an important book as well as a provocative one: the best statement to date of the pessimist’s position on Islamic immigration in Europe." The Marxist historian Perry Anderson concurred, calling it "the most striking single book to have appeared, in any language, on immigration in Western Europe".
However, others accused Caldwell of stoking what The Guardian referred to as a "culture of fear".
