Legislating National Identity

From Slate: http://slatest.slate.com/id/2244122/entry/8/

This concerns France’s recent attempts legislate its culture… banning the burqa, specifically. If this were done in the USA, I think I’d be against it. But in a country like France (or Italy or Turkey), which has a predominant character or cultural history, I’m okay with it. I’m definitely okay with Immigration [...]

The NOW answer

I think one of the more annoying aspects of human curiosity is the demand for the NOW answer. We want everything to be definitively explained NOW. And so we fill in the blanks for questions whose answers we aren’t prepared to answer yet.

Who created us? What came before the Big Bang? Why is Cleveland [...]