The Immigration Debate

As disparate historical figures as Marc Bloch, an historian, scholar, and a Jew, and Toussaint L’Ouverture, a black and a slave until he was forty-five years old, subscribed to the principles of the French Republic-liberty, equality, fraternity – until the end of their lives. In his written commentary about the capitulation of France to the…

To discuss any issue of social rights seriously, we have to begin not only with the “practical possibilities,” or the contending policy proposals on national legislative agendas, but also with governing ethical principles, whatever they may be and wherever that discussion may take us. This is not to say that principles ought to govern policies,…