Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights. — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are. — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community. — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Republicans say they want citizenship to truly mean something. Let's be equal-opportunity about it and test everyone, including those very Republicans and… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
“There was an omnivorous intellect that won him the family sobriquet of Walking Encyclopedia.” — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
“Far too many Americans are illiterate in power — what it is, how it operates and why some people have it. As a result,… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that there is… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not in a… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law. — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
