- American debt (to immigrants) Gaiutra Bahadur, New Republic
- Why immigrants are superior Jacques Delacroix, NOL
- Misadventures of an anthropologist in Indonesia Tim Hannigan, Asian Review of Books
- Why books don’t work Andy Matuschak
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Notes On Liberty 
“American Debt” finds that illegal immigrants are owed by current residents; if so, may it not be argued that the American Indians owed uninvited Europeans? All human societies tend to exploit where they can, seems to me. Maube that’s the real subject …
Maybe it is, Jack.
To play devil’s advocate: the uninvited Europeans were not American citizens. They came from polities that were not the United States. The First Nations that fought wars against the U.S. might have a good argument, but the ones who fought against Europeans before the founding of the United States have no case.