An eye-and-mind opening read for me on this issue was Victor Davis' Hanson's 2003 book, Mexifornia, A State of Becoming, which I first read around 2010. Being a native Californian and a 50 yr Santa Barbara citizen, I was visually and emotionally aware of the immigrants around me, but unaware of their legal or illegal status in the proces…

I have been quoting a passage from Middlemarch for more than 50 yrs...and most people have no familiarity with this work. I attribute this--and most illiteracy among Americans-- to the decay of public high school education in America, and the dumbing down of college thereafter. The blame for this I lay at the feet of the political revolu…

Abigail,

You are more heroic than you likely feel, but from this 72 yr old straight, white, married father and grandfather you get a verbal standing ovation. Your bravery to be in the middle of this ridiculous fray for the last several years deserves a medal of freedom, IMHO. The godless humanism of our age is a cancer that has already co…