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Immigration
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The Honor System
A jar of cash left unwatched on a counter is one of the most valuable things a society owns and one of the strangest. It runs on generalized trust, an achievement built slowly by institutions and held only while almost everyone keeps a …
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The Tip Jar Is a Miracle
An unwatched jar of cash on a counter is a small miracle of generalized trust, and trust is built, not bred. It is also a fragile commons that dies fast once cheating spreads. That, and not any slur about peoples, is what immigration …
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The Soil Does Not Own You
In Trump v. Barbara the Court held that a child born to a tourist here for the weekend, or to a parent here illegally, is a citizen at birth, because the words ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ mean nothing more than being reachable …
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America's Immigration Dilemma
The Long Crisis, Part 6. America’s edge over Europe is real, but it has an immigration problem of its own, and it runs two ways at once. The melting pot can fail because people never join it, or because they join only their own. Both …
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Europe's Structural Trap
The Long Crisis, Part 5. Europe is promising itself an autonomous future as an independent pole in a multipolar world. The arithmetic says otherwise. It cannot fund its social model, rearm, absorb immigration, and keep the industrial base …
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The Operating System
The Long Crisis, Part 4. The split between America and Europe isn’t really about GDP or defense budgets. It runs on a deeper layer: a shared answer to what a person is and what we owe each other. Lose that answer and a society …
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You Have to Read the Signs
A commercial license is permission to pilot eighty thousand pounds past your family at highway speed. Requiring the driver to read the road signs is not nativism. It is the floor.