Guess what these developments have in common? • Immigration is quickly becoming the number-one issue of the 2006 Congressional campaign. • CAFTA, an innocuous trade agreement with five Central ...

Refer often enough, as politicians and editorialists do, to "the Judaeo-Christian tradition" and any Hindus, Buddhists, animists, Confucianists, Moslems, or Zoroastrians who happen to be in the ...

Editor’s note: Jim Schutze is taking some well-earned time off, so we’re digging into the archives to bring you some of his hits. This one, from August 2013 is about Farmers Branch’s ultimately failed ...

Historically, economic hardship and high unemployment tend to bring out anti-immigration sentiment. This can mean economic protectionism as well as cultural nativism--an attempt to preserve historical ...

Who does this sound like? A group dealing with economic disruption decides that, rather than addressing its problems internally, it will blame outsiders. So the group adopts a nativist stance, looking ...

Brian Wong is a DPhil in Political Theory candidate at Balliol College, Oxford, and a Rhodes Scholar from Hong Kong. They are the founder of the Oxford Political Review. At the heart of Hong Kong’s ...

"Nativism," as defined by Merriam-Webster, is "a policy favoring inhabitants as opposed to immigrants." According to Wikipedia, nativism is the "fear that certain new immigrants will inject alien ...

There may be new things under the sun, but the recent rise of nativism in the United States is not one of them. The political forces attempting to reduce, revoke, or reject citizenship – and voting ...

In the era of Trump, it appears that even common sense is controversial. Just before the New Year, the Obama administration issued regulations that would make it easier for foreign students graduating ...

In May 2016, Ben Shapiro—arguably the most influential conservative Jewish pundit in America—did something admirable. He admitted he was wrong. “I’ve spent most of my career arguing that anti-Semitism ...