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How Absolute Power Corrupted the President

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MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 2024
Far from being utopian, saying “Immigration is a human right” is just the moderate, common-sense position that when natives and foreigners voluntarily interact, strangers are morally obliged to leave them alone unless the overall consequences are clearly awful.  Even if the stranger happens to be the government – and the government happens to be popular.
– Bryan Caplan “Is Immigration a Basic Human Right?” [2017]

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