The sealed border was not just at the 38th parallel, but everywhere, in each person’s heart, blocking the past and choking off the future. —Suki Kim, Without You, There is No Us Behind the children of the elite who were…
The myth of a monochrome ‘Western’ civilization
If Western civilization is defined by religion and culture, then Mexico—with its Catholic heritage and historic ties to European monarchies—is unquestionably an outpost of “the West.” But for Trump and his advisers, it too is a threat to the Western…