Threading an Un-threadable Needle
Oh, what to do, what to do? In the decade after 9/11 – and with spiked fervor since the Tea Party came to town on a wave of malcontented-ness cresting in a bad economy archconservatives have been hell-bent on keeping that way –, xenophobia promised great rewards to its sponsors. In the time-honored tradition of right-wing populism, it was easier and politically more profitable to point the finger at an external culprit like the immigrant than to look inward for answers to the