From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.
What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to firs… - Eric Liu
What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to firs…
- Eric Liu
Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride… - Eric Liu
Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride…
True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom Ameri… - Eric Liu
True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom Ameri…
The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him th… - Eric Liu
The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him th…
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us. - Eric Liu
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white. - Eric Liu
Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.
Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from th… - Eric Liu
Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from th…
True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community. - Eric Liu
True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.
Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights. - Eric Liu
Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.
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