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Do People Have a Right to Move Across National Borders?
This was the question explored at a recent interdisciplinary conference in Tokyo, jointly sponsored by Sophia University and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, where I was lucky...
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Immigration as a Source of Renewal in Japan
Here is a paper I contributed to the Carnegie Council’s journal Policy Innovations following a Sophia University conference on migration. Japan’s population is on a downward slope, a trend which...
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Refugees in Japan
The following is the first of several (slightly modified) excerpts I’d like to share from my book Japan’s Open Future. The Japanese government affirms that “refugee assistance is a bounden duty of a...
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Motion arrested
Detail from "The Rehearsal" (c. 1873-78), by Edgar Degas It is a strange yet common tendency of the beginner artist to think that the use of a reference object or image — a live model, for example, or...
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The Two faces of Paternalism
Ellison D. Smith Historians of the American South, seeking to give a more nuanced picture of the region’s history, sometimes describe traditional racism as being “paternalistic” in nature. The idea is...
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Canada’s Greatest Books
What are Canada’s best 100 books? This is a question Stephen Patrick Clare and Trevor Adams are hoping to answer by polling Canadian readers. They plan to sift through the results and publish the list...
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James J. Kilpatrick: Death of a Bigot
James J. Kilpatrick I’ll be curious to see what the obituaries are like for James Jackson Kilpatrick, the newspaper columnist who died last night. Although his name has lost its luster in recent years,...
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Coren and Conservative Revisionism
Pius XII Back in August, I took part of a panel on the Michael Coren show. You can see the show here. One interesting thing about the show is that it illustrates the pervasiveness of a certain type...
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Once More into the Trenches
According to the National Post and Maclean's, this is the typical white student. There’s diminishing return, I recognize, in minutely critiquing every article produced by the “‘Too Asian?’”...
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The Strange Career of Bruce Bawer
Bruce Bawer in happier days. I’ve been enjoyed Bruce Bawer’s essays on politics and culture for nearly 30 years, so I’ve been troubled over the last few weeks by the way his name has become entangled...
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