Free Minds, Free Markets, and Free People
Symposium: Citizen, Community, and Welcoming the Stranger I’m not sure when it became a “conservative” thing to oppose relatively open borders and the free migrations of peoples, especially those seeking freedom from totalitarian and fundamentalist regimes. From my...
What Can the Declaration of Independence Teach Us About Immigration?
Symposium: Citizen, Community, and Welcoming the Stranger Debates about immigration usually center on two interrelated questions: on what basis should we decide whom to let into our country and what should we expect of immigrants once they arrive in America? Among our...
We Want Workers, But We Must Form American Citizens
Symposium: Citizen, Community, and Welcoming the Stranger America’s more open approach to widespread immigration is faltering, the support for it eroded by our low-growth economy. For too many, the pie seems to be shrinking, with those at the Little Debbie level much...
Universal and Territorial: The American Republic
Symposium: Citizen, Community, and Welcoming the Stranger From my view, the two classic sources are G. K. Chesterton and Orestes Brownson. What Chesterton, our friendly and endlessly ironic English critic, saw in America was “the romance of the citizen.” For...