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Honoring our ‘incompatible’ ancestors
Today, nobody would doubt the contribution of the Irish to American history, culture, or economics. But as Douglass was writing, the Irish would have appeared every bit the ‘culturally incompatible’ immigrants Vance is warning Germany about.
Thoughts on the traditions of Lent
Perhaps ironically, given the devotion of this newsletter to Liberalism, I find myself thinking a great deal about tradition and what - at its best - it can offer, in times of crisis perhaps more than ever. And as I write, the most salient tradition is that of Ash Wednesday,
Collective Punishment is Always Illiberal
In the wake of an atrocity - or a series of them, as with those that followed the recent Hamas raid into Israel - it is easy to be swept up in a righteous fervor for ‘justice’ that turns out to be nothing more than vengeance. The famous “9/12”
Buy (North) American
With the beginning of a new administration, it is natural that the focus is on what changes should be expected - and President Trump's raft of executive orders, often directly overturning those of his predecessor, has certainly strengthened that focus. However, a hostility to trade is a longer-term