Not Even Wrong

If you want to understand the hostility that greeted the Irish Catholics who immigrated to the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century you need only consult the headlines in recent daily newspapers. On April 23 just past, the New York Times carried a story under the headline “Far From the Sea, Another Crisis Of Migration” that told of the hostility – expressed through arson and vandalism – of portions of the resident population in Germany, Sweden and other nations of Europe...