Why We Need to Eliminate the Citizenship Test
In the US, as in many other nations, the final hurdle for a non-citizen to fully politically integrate into the nation state is the naturalization process. Half of this is…
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Dan Melo
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Daniel Melo is a public sector immigration lawyer in the American Southeast who primarily works with refugees and the son of a migrant himself. His book, Borderlines, is due out from Zer0 Books in August 2021.
Semantics and the Need for Good Explanations
Semantics have long played a role in the culture wars. As we grapple with the implications of concentration camps, identity politics and postmodernism, we are in desperate need of a…
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What’s Missing From Call-Out Culture: The Opportunity to Change
Call-out culture, the act of publicly and collectively reprimanding someone for a past misstep, has longstanding roots in anthropological history. In our online society, in which the past cannot readily…
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The Case For Identity Politics
Identity politics has become the punching bag of liberals and conservatives alike, despite being rather ill defined. It is neither the world-ending menace that conservatives posit, nor the monolith that…
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Our First Enemy is Silence
Silence has been enforced over the victims through threats to their persons, their careers, or the stigmas of culture.
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The Difficult Question at the Heart of the Gun Debate
Indulge me momentarily in a hypothetical: I want a tank. But I can’t have one. But I should be able to get one, right? The text of the second amendment…
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The Bleak View of Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recent article in the Atlantic — “The First White President” is a devastating and image-shattering look at how President Trump is truly the first white President. While I highly…
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