One of the things that’s becoming clear is the determination of the Trump administration to divide humans living in the United States into two groups (to whom Wilhoit’s Law applies), citizens and immigrants. Actually it is a bit more complicated than that, because some of the legal citizens are, in reality, at best some sort of semi-citizen,1 but let’s keep things simple for now. What I want to focus on is how incompatible this is with the notion of a free society, indeed with a free so...| crookedtimber.org
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“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.| Slate Magazine