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Immigration: Citizens & Strangers

Peter C. Meilaender

Discussions of immigration often oversimplify or distort the moral issues at stake. Contemporary liberalism promotes the twin ideals of individual autonomy and equality. But these ideals, as commonly interpreted,...

Immigration and the Common Culture

Peter C. Meilaender

Mexifornia: A Study of Becomingby Victor Davis HansonEncounter, 150pp. $21.95 In his latest work, Mexifornia: A State of Becoming, Victor Davis Hanson offers a report from immigration’s front lines. An unusual...

The West and the Rest:Globalization and the Terrorist Threat

Peter C. Meilaender

In the terrorist age we have now entered, the nations of the West are confronted, for the first time in the modern era, with a serious threat from outside...