Posted by
Mark Grannis on Friday, June 08, 2007 9:52:22 AM
Amidst all the recent debate about immigration reform —
apparently dead for now
— I read Pat Buchanan’s book, “State of Emergency.” Since it appears we
will be talking about this again sometime soon, let me say this is the
sort of book from which reasonable minds can profit. It is filled with
facts and figures and lists and dates, and those are all very
interesting. There are also anecdotes chosen to illustrate the various
symptoms of decline about which Buchanan is exercised, and those are
also interesting. But I think the most interesting theme of the book is
the sustained reflection Buchanan gives to the question of what makes a
nation.
(Click
here to read the rest of "National Identity and the Duties of Citizenship."