Jeanie Hannaman

By Brianna Lyman, The Federalist - Today this may mean visiting a mosque. Tomorrow that could mean adopting policies or positions that conflict with the moral and legal frameworks that underpin the nation. Mass migration, combined with limited to no assimilation, risks gradually bending political norms to accommodate values and belief systems that were never intended to govern America... Measuring political legitimacy by a prerequisite of pandering to religious frameworks that are incompatible with republican self-government illustrates how mass migration without assimilation can create systemic pressure on the very foundations of our country. ...

By Clifford Angell Bates, Jr., Chronicles - The mechanisms are consistent across these contexts: moral absolutism, cognitive rigidity, and the desire for control. Good intentions, when detached from prudence and responsibility, create tyranny. This is why both large-scale utopian projects and small-scale moral policing are forces of social destruction rather than renewal... The alternative is not to abandon morality but to temper it with humility, realism, and an ethic of responsibility. Healthy political and social communities are built not by imposing utopias but by nurturing voluntary associations, pluralism, and incremental reform.