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
Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do -… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for… — 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
When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent… — 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
“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