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Thank you for an excellent article, Dr. Arkes. I agree with your comments and I would only add that the 2012 elections were a warning as well. They showed that we were moving toward a European/Latin...
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"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight." -- Theodore Roosevelt. In America today, roughly half the population, all...
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Thanks for a thoughtful essay. One aspect of this case that hasn't been talked about too much is the demand for the death penalty for the naturalized citizen who helped perpetrate this atrocity. That's...
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The historical precedents relate to non-citizens who aspire to become citizens. Clearly, a moral framework should be part of the naturalization process. It is quite another matter to question whether...
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As a Canadian I look to the U.S. as the bulwark against totalitarianism and the promoter of freedom. I suppose it made Canada’s forays into socialism a little more tolerable because you knew that if it...
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I was just wondering how a whole column can be written about the horrendous barbarism in Boston without mentioning that it was done in the name of Islam? The problem is not limited to the USA....
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Hadley, thoughtful piece, until you wrote, "but no longer clear that we are inviting people to a regime, or a way of life, that can decently ask for their respect." Seems to me, the question arises: if...
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Hadley, your article caused me to look up what was required to become a naturalized citizen. Here are some taken directly from the government's website: "The applicant must demonstrate good moral...
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Saddest thing about this splendid article: the knowledge that none of our current politicians could have written Lincoln's paragraph, or perhaps even have conceived the idea that inspired it. - Tony...
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The idea that atheists canot be a good citizen may make sense to the late Fr. Neuhaus and to Prof. Arkes, but it strikes me as irresponsible and irrational (in the strict sense of that word). A...
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@Kurt: You make excellent points. One gap is the taking of an oath. For decades, atheists could not serve on a jury as the oath to tell the truth would be meaningless. Here's why: When a BELIEVER...
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Yet Lincoln held out against granting freed slaves equal rights along with the whites. He was explicit that coexistence on an equal footing was impossible between populations that differed so much. The...
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