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Defending the Innocent: Arizona and Immigration
Feathers began flying last Friday hours before Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed the country’s strictest state law governing illegal immigration, when President Obama called it unfair and promised to...
Immigration: Citizens & Strangers
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
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
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...
Christians as Patriots
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, patriotism, for the first time in a long time, became fashionable in America once again. This should prompt reflection among Christians, for...
