Some of your liberal friends don’t want to read Open Borders? Perhaps this page will pique their interest…
Some of your liberal friends don’t want to read Open Borders? Perhaps this page will pique their interest…
Oct 30 2019
Former government bureaucrat has epic fail. When I was a journalist, I loved Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s assertion that the Constitution and the First Amendment are not just about protecting “free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.” Bu...
Oct 30 2019
On Monday, November 4, I'll be giving the Brandt Foundation Lecture at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. It will be the first time I've been in Boise since I stayed overnight there in April 1971. Details are here. Title of talk: The Case for Free Trade Date: Monday, November 4 Time: 7:00 p.m...
Oct 30 2019
Some of your liberal friends don't want to read Open Borders? Perhaps this page will pique their interest...
READER COMMENTS
nobody.really
Oct 30 2019 at 4:50pm
Single-payer healthcare has some advantages, but faces political hurdles. But letting people buy into Medicare gets you most of the way there–and may gradually evolve into single-payer healthcare.
Likewise, open borders may have some advantages, but faces political hurdles. But simply expanding immigration caps and reforming certain policies will get you most of the way there–and it may gradually evolve into open borders.
As a matter of polemics, big jumps are great. As a matter of politics, not so much–and incrementalism is often a good substitute. Let justice trickle down like waters and righteousness like an ever-widening creek.
P Burgos
Oct 31 2019 at 3:54am
This is much better than the conservative panel, which I think is down to that liberals actually do have reasons to support open borders, and Trumpists (i.e. real conservatives) don’t. Which is why you see the Democratic presidential candidates sounding like they support open borders.
Thaomas
Oct 31 2019 at 10:41am
All these are arguments for Liberals to support higher immigration and they do. I’m not persuaded that these arguments support even 0.999999% open borders.
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