“Is there any good principled reason not to have open borders?” That is a quote from Harvard professor Michael Sandel in “Two of the World’s Leading Thinkers on How the Left Went Astray,” a New York Times article published on Jan 18. The piece promotes two stars in the progressive pantheon: Sandel and French economist Thomas […]
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In his posthumously published The End of the Experiment, the great social scientist Stanley Rothman makes a pessimistic– and cogent– argument that our recent history is building up to the end of the American experiment in self-government. Rothman sees our national nadir as reflecting long-term, likely terminal elite dysfunction stemming from the impact of the […]
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