For years, the mantra on the left was “reimagining” everything from policing to free speech to defense. Reimagining often was a synonym for defunding or limiting the subject matter. Now, Georgetown Law Professor Sherally Munshi and others are attacking border enforcement as “ethically indefensible.” Munshi calls it “defamiliarizing” the whole concept of borders, which she and others in higher education now find morally reprehensible.
Munshi’s talk, “Unsettling the Border,” is an example of how radical many law faculties have become. She is by no means a standout in such theories. While schools have purged their ranks of conservative, libertarian, and dissenting faculty, there is no limit to faculty writing on the far left.
Munshi insists that “there is nothing natural or inevitable about the United States’ contemporary borders.” She mocked the whole notion of “the so-called border crisis.” Millions of unvetted people just walking over the border is not a crisis… at least not for the country. It is failure in ourselves; “a crisis of imagination.” Accordingly, she is calling for reimagining or defamiliarizing borders:
“Our task, as I put it, is to unsettle the border, to defamiliarize, disenchant, and recontextualize it by critically evaluating the historical processes, the legal developments, the discursive formations that naturalize and legitimate the border.”
It is, of course, racist to want to have secure borders:
“Rather than redress the fact that the international border regime is practically unsustainable [and] ethically indefensible, majorities in the whitest and wealthiest nations are embracing an increasingly authoritarian form of nationalism and exclusion.”
Borders, according to Professor Munshi, are just a construct “within the American imaginary, the southern border divides white from indigenous, purity from heterogeneity, civilization from savagery, settler from Indian.”
Of course, this reimagining of borders will have to extend back a tad further than the American founders. The concept of the nation-state with sovereign borders was recognized in documents like the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. It was credited with maintaining a Westphalian peace with nations able to maintain their own territory and governing systems. That, in turn, allowed nation-states to form international bodies and further stabilize global relations.
I have heard other faculty present papers along these same lines, dismissing the very concept of border enforcement as racist, privileged, or archaic. It is far more rare to hear conservatives on campuses arguing for border enforcement and deportations. It is even less common to find such advocates on both faculties.
In my book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discuss the intolerance in higher education and surveys showing that many departments no longer have a single Republican as faculties replicate their own views and values.
The problem is not that there are radicals teaching at law schools, but that most faculties seem to run only from the left to the far left.
Perhaps it is time to . . . wait for it . . . reimagine or defamiliarize law school faculty appointments.
“Shalom Hamas” means Hello and Goodbye – You can choose. Release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you. Only sick and twisted people keep bodies, and you are sick and twisted! I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job, not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don’t do as I say. I have just met with your former Hostages whose lives you have destroyed. This is your last warning! For the leadership, now is the time to leave Gaza, while you still have a chance. Also, to the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD! Make a SMART decision. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW, OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY LATER!
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (from Truth Social 4:46 PM)
Jonathan: …Some final thoughts on DJT’s address last night. At one point DJT declared that “the days of unelected bureaucrats are over”. That got a big laugh from the Democratic side of the aisle. They stood up and pointed to Elon Musk–the “unelected bureaucrat” who is running the country. Elizabeth Warren later quipped on X: “I agree with Donald Trump that an unelected bureaucrat should be fired. Let’s start with Elon Musk”. But the MAGA Republicans bizarrely cheered the Orange Man and convicted felon–not recognizing the dripping irony in his statement.
And while Musk was glowing in DJT’s praise for his work with DOGE to dismantle the federal government this “unelected bureaucrat” was ignoring the serious problems with his own companies. Tesla shares lost another 3% yesterday. China reports that Tesla’s February wholesale numbers dropped 49% since DJT took office. In February Tesla sold only 30,688 NEVs in China while the Chinese EV maker BYD sold 318,233 of its cars. And Tesla’s sales in Europe plummeted 45%.
Even Fox News has admitted that DJT’s tariffs are having an inflationary impact on our economy. Fox sent one of its reporters, Jeff Flock, to Pennsylvania yesterday to find out what DJT’s tariffs are doing to car and truck prices. Flock stood next to a Dodge Ram truck and found the price had gone from $80,000 to $100,000!
The speech last night revealed the cowardness and depravity of MAGA Republicans. They are facing outrage from their own MAGA voters in townhall meetings about the rise in prices on everything. So what has MAGA Speaker Mike Johnson told his colleagues? Just cancel any further town hall meetings. In the face of fire MAGA Republicans run for the hills!
Musk is the exact opposite of a bureaucrat. He reports directly to the president, and is responsible to him. He also exercises no authority whatsoever, which is why, like the Chief of Staff or the various “czars”, he did not need senate confirmation.
They are facing outrage from their own MAGA voters in townhall meetings
No, they are not. The idea that they are is a outright fabrication, a Democrat hoax. Not a single one of the “protesters” at their meetings voted for them, and indeed few if any even live in their districts. They are paid Democrat operatives bused in to disrupt the meetings, that’s all.
They exploited the kid so they could play the child card.
Directly out of the Democrats playbook, the difference being he’s an American kid!
Jonathan: There were so many disconnects in DJT’s speech to the joint session of Congress last night. Too many to cover in one comment. But here are a few highlights.
During the campaign last year DJT promised that on day one he would bring down inflation. We’re now in March. Anyone seen the prices of eggs coming down? Or the prices for anything else? DJT told the American people last night his tariffs would “Make America Affordable Again”. See any evidence of that? The CEO of the Ford Motor Co. said yesterday that DJT’s tariffs will “blow a hole in the auto industry we’ve never seen before!”. The prices for new cars and trucks have already gone up. See the disconnect?
DJT also said “I love the farmers”. But his tariffs are causing American farmers to pay more for everything–from seed to farm machinery. China has already imposed reciprocal tariffs on American soy beans and other agricultural products. How is that helping our farmers? See the disconnect?
On foreign policy DJT says he is trying to avoid WW3. Yet last night he repeated his demand to take back the Panama Canal and take Greenland from Denmark “one way or the other”. Threats of military action against Panama and Denmark are not exactly the way to avoid another war. See the disconnect?
Then DJT pointed to a young boy in the audience who is suffering from cancer and applauded him for wanting to be a police officer. Yet, DJT is cutting NIH funding for pediatric cancer research. See the disconnect?
DJT’s speech was a complete disconnection from reality. He lives in a bubble of lies. He has no plan to reduce inflation. The stock market is tanking and people are losing their 401K savings. Everything costs more now as a result of DJT’s disastrous trade wars–while he threatens our allies. DJT admitted in his speech that his tariffs will cause more inflation. But he calls that a “little disturbance” but “we’re not worried”. See the disconnect?
Hey buddy, you realize that the subject is the border? Talk about stupid.
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Bill Maher has been calling you stupid and crazy for years now. You might want to listen to him.
Three-fourths of those who watched Trump’s address to Congress approved of speech: poll
“Sixty-three percent of those surveyed said Trump spent a lot of time talking about issues they cared about.”
Yes. We know there is going to be some “disturbance.” That was a given. And we, those of us who have any degree of intestinal fortitude, are willing to put up with some pain at the beginning to get to a better point later. It is a trait we have that you do not. We also know what a disaster Bidenomics was and that due to it, we are facing serious economic headwinds and possibility a recession. Nothing that Trump did. That was all Bidenomics and Bidenflation. It may take years or a decade to fix. But, with all that re-shoring of companies, investing in America, more American jobs, DOGE cutting waste, fraud and abuse, cutting the government of useless or redundant programs, those economic headwinds might be short lived.
Last night all we saw from the democrats was “I hate Trump”! That’s all they have to offer. They don’t want President Trump to get credit for anything. They(the democrats), looked childish and petty. They have nothing to offer, but I hate Trump.
Independent Bob,
Well said. That is all they have. They have nothing to offer. No solutions. Just hate. Trying to imagine what they are going to run on in the mid-terms or in 2028. Hate?
Post speech polls show super majorities of those who view Trump’s speech approved.
On Day One Trump began the processs of cutting the debt fueled federal spending that is driving inflation.
It is unfortunate that the mess Biden made of the economy in 4 years is harder to clean up than that Obama took 8 years to create – but even Obama told us to never underestimate how badly Biden could F#$K things up.
It is early but my Due Dilligence Business started to pick up this week – for the first time in 4 years
While that is good for me – it is also very good for the country – as commercial due diligence is a leading economic indicator.
Dennis, no one is going to care about Tarriffs until they have actually been effect for months so that we can TRULY see their long term impacts. Though I would note that the mere threat of Tarrifs is both getting serious concessions from foreign countries and pushing businesses to reshore back to the US. Tarriffs are not the only factor driving that.
But they are an important one.
The claims of the Ford CEO are disturbing – what he is saying is that Ford does not make cars in the US anymore.
I do not expect that is going down well in Michigan. Regardless, long before Trump announced Tarriffs
major global producers started moving back to the US.
Airbus AND Boeing make aircraft in the US.
All japanese automakers have plants in the US, german cars are made in the US.
Where is this “hole” being blown in the auto industry ?
Tarriffs are avoidable – make your product in the US.
I do not know what has happened to the price of cars and trucks – but I doubt they are going up as sales are DOWN.
“But his tariffs are causing American farmers to pay more for everything–from seed to farm machinery. ”
John Deere, International Harvestor, Ford, …. What Farm Machinery is made outside the US ?
“China has already imposed reciprocal tariffs on American soy beans and other agricultural products. How is that helping our farmers? See the disconnect?”
So Brazill will sell soy to China and the US will sell to whoever the Brazillians sold to.
Commodity markets have very little slack in supply and demand.
I find it odd that the left simultaneously beleives that the people of the world are starving from lack of food, and that China buying less food from the US will result in a global glut making it impossible for US farmers to sell.
“On foreign policy DJT says he is trying to avoid WW3. Yet last night he repeated his demand to take back the Panama Canal and take Greenland from Denmark “one way or the other”. Threats of military action against Panama and Denmark are not exactly the way to avoid another war. See the disconnect?”
People with brains do NOT see what you see. Threatening Putin risks nuclear war.
Threatening Denmark and Panama do not.
“Then DJT pointed to a young boy in the audience who is suffering from cancer and applauded him for wanting to be a police officer. Yet, DJT is cutting NIH funding for pediatric cancer research. See the disconnect?”
When is the last time that Government research accomplished anything ? There is no disconnect.
All research is best done outside of government.
Further I know this is really hard for those of you on the left to grasp,
But money is NOT the driving force to progress. If it was our schools would not be failing.
“DJT’s speech was a complete disconnection from reality. He lives in a bubble of lies. He has no plan to reduce inflation. ”
Cutting spending reduces debt reduces fed printing of money reduces inflation.
That is the plan, it is basic economics.
“The stock market is tanking and people are losing their 401K savings.”
The stock market has been rising slowly since the election on a month to month basis
“Everything costs more now as a result of” the inflation caused by too much govenrment spending.
“DJT’s disastrous trade wars’
We are not in a trade war, and even if we were – that does not cause inflation.
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary pheonmena”
Milton Freidman
“while he threatens our allies.”
Turkey is an ally, Ukraine is not.
” DJT admitted in his speech that his tariffs will cause more inflation.”
Incorrect. Neither claim is true
“But he calls that a “little disturbance” but “we’re not worried”. See the disconnect?”
What I see is your addled brain
Turkey may be a NATO member, but it is NOT a US ally!
Oh, Dennis…are you still here? You can go now, you’re dismissed.
During the campaign last year DJT promised that on day one he would bring down inflation.
No, he didn’t. He promised that on day one he would begin reversing the policies that caused the inflation — and he did. He continued on days 2, 3, 4, etc. DOGE is a large part of that.
Threats of military action against Panama and Denmark are not exactly the way to avoid another war.
Says who? Not that he made such threats, but what do you know about how to avoid a war?
Yet, DJT is cutting NIH funding for pediatric cancer research.
No, he isn’t.
Democrats would not even stand and applaud for a 13 year old boy who has survived brain cancer. They are truly evil. Just as evil as Putin.
You silly old drama queen. Attack dems because they’re evil? And your comments here are… what?
My comment is pointing out the obvious. Who would not stand and applaud a 13 year old brain cancer survivor? Only someone with evil in their heart. Thank you Democrats. Thank you for proving who you really are last night. We, and the whole world see you for what you are. Evil.
Obvious is that you’re a self-serving childish fool who thinks bashing people for some fictitious moral infraction. I’ll try this as a response: did you stand?
Oh! My! What a intelligent comment. /sarc.
I dont watch any Congress addresses or State of the Union addresses. I read the transcripts. The pictures of Democrats holding up lame signs, like they were at a auction was pathetic and funny at the same time!
Democrats would not even stand or acknowledge the families of murder victims Laken Riley or 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray from Biden’s illegal, criminal, illegals aliens he let in. Talk about low lifes.
Read a transcript?
When you read it, did you stand up out of respect for so-called victims? Say a prayer?
What law or congressional policy requires dems to stand up for that?
You’re just regurgitating party propaganda.
Last ball game I went to, I didn’t stand, as others too, for an anthem. Why should I?
First your comment wins the “stupid” prize of the day.
Second, didn’t stand for the anthem? You just told us all we need to know about you.
Is there a policy requiring them to stand? No. It is call common decency. Being respectful. But, as we all know, common decency and being respectful for the dead is not something most Democrats have. We saw their lack of common decency, respect and common sense, when they voted against protecting women in women’s sports. I am not regurgitating anything. We all saw those Democrats being disrespectful. Just calling out the obvious. And you not standing for the National Anthem, you just told us you lack character. Lacking character, another Democrat trait.
How marvelous!
Democrats are required to respect what voters respect – if they wish to be re-elected.
If not, they can pi$$ on everything.
Why should you stand for the anthem ? because you are fortunate enough to live in the best and freest country in the world – one in which you are not required to stand for the anthem.
Regardless if you truly think the rest of the world is better – Please LEAVE.
Quit trying to make the US into the He11hole you have made of the rest of the world.
The rest of us are trying to fix all the messes you made – show some respect
ATS – USF is bashing people who are doing evil, for the evil they are doing.
100% USF ! The Democrats are beyond pathetic, I wish for them to continue to reveal themselves for the pathetic excrement they are. America watched, we all know what is going on. The lies and corruption of the controlling cabal is front and center. The more that is revealed, the deeper we see their deception. Full Steam Ahead President Trump, damn the torpedoes!
Semper Gumbus Jarhead!
ATS only a left wing nut would think that attacking evil is anything except good
It is Theronic villainy how the Ukrainian resistance to Putin gets taken out of context, spun, twisted, and distorted as prolonging the war.
The Russian occupation of Ukraine is what is prolonging the war.
Putin is the one causing the bloodshed in Ukraine, not Zelensky.
The scientific method of making and reporting observations
can prove this.
It makes no sense that Zelensky is getting all of the blame
when Putin does not get any of the blame.
If Vance is really so concerned about the bloodshed in Ukraine, then he and Trump should persuade Putin to get out of Ukraine.
When the Russians are gone from a place they should not be,
then the bloodshed will stop.
This would make more sense, but making sense seems
out of the question.
#74. Not really. All you need to do is see what and whom is supported by democrats and you’ve assessed the wrong path. 😏
We are not blaming Zelensky. Well, to a degree we are as he keeps making unreasonable demands that could cost American lives, risk WWIII and nuclear war. Had NATO not expanded eastward as it did, we would of never been in this situation in the first place. Foreign policy experts written about this over a decade ago. Who I blame for this war is Biden. They had a peace deal in Istanbul in the spring of 2022. Biden squashed it and told Zelensky to fight. And here we are. Billions of dollars spent, thousands of lives lost for what? Biden’s war.
Bull S _ _ _ ! Putin wasn’t the one sitting in the Oval Office shaking down the President of the United State for Billions of Dollars. Zelensky figured that Biden and the Dems were so easy to screw, he’d play the same game on Trump. Zelensky might have well tried bending the President over the Resolute desk and jack-pumping him in front of the Vice President. He figured wrong. The guy is a Ukrainian Thug, and works for a Mafia of Ukrainian Thugs. When it comes down to it, Zelensky is just another self-absorbed thug, now with his dick caught in the ringer.
Putin left the Ukrainians alone for years because they are nothing but Ukrainian Thugs, he didn’t want anything to do with them. Biden and the CIA with the Brzezinski Doctrine in hand cooked up Zelensky. As for The Brzezinski Doctrine, this conflict is proof that the idea of surrounding Moscow and conquering the Russia, will not work, because the people are Russian and want to stay that way – “Sovereign” with their choice of a sovereign Russian constitutional government.
Re: “Russia’s constitutional government is a semi-presidential republic with a separation of powers into three branches. The Russian constitution was adopted in 1993.”
ATS disconnected from reality much ?
Zelensky is not responsible for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – Putin and Biden and NeoCon’s and Hillary and Nuland, and Blinken and democrats are responsible for that.
Zelensky has a choice – fight on – possibly alone, or come to a table where he has “no cards” to strike a deal.
That is not pretty, it is not fair, it is reality.
I find it odd that people who do not beleive in god, still seem to want divine justice.
Putin will win this war – albeit slowly. If you want to make a deal calling him names is not going to get you there – even if the names are true.
It’s long past overdue for ‘reimagining’ what a ‘Professor’ is.
It is hypocritical of Trump supporters to accuse anyone of the ad hominem fallacy when their orange leader has shown himself to be the god of name-calling.
Except that is reversed from the truth. Trumps has name-called a few people; millions of leftists have called him “Hitler”. If anything, the Democratic party is the party of name-calling.
The Nazis rose to power with the same arrogance and haughtiness as this latest version of the Republican party.
#9. Coincidentally, the Communists rose to power with that same arrogance and bolshevik soullessness as what today masquerades as a legitimate political party.
And water is still wet.
This is what counts for logic on the modern brain-dead left:
Hitler liked dogs. Some republicans like dogs. Ergo Trump = Hitler.
Trump claimed that his administration was conducting rapid deportations. This is misleading: At the current pace, the Trump administration would deport half as many people as the Obama administration once did in a 12-month period.
Typical rich white idiot. Can only do half the work of a black man.
Trump’s speech last night was awesome!! He owned the Democrats!! They would not even stand and applaud a 13 year old brain cancer survivor. What low lifes. What scum. They are that pathetic and they are losers.
How marvelous!
Your number is likely wrong, but I am not sure of what you are calculating. Trump almost has the border sealed so illegals are kept out or turned back.
If you let 20 people into a theater without paying and then throw five out, that might seem better then not permitting any of the 20 in.
The leftist mindset is Sinister Sick and Stupid. Is that how you want people to see you?
JD Vance is cosplaying an executive.
I knew a bank manager once.
He knew how to ACT managerial, emphasizing how much that HE
was the leader, but he didn’t know how to BE managerial.
He ended up resigning.
Why?
He fired the good, competent people who he did not like and who actually kept the
bank afloat, causing a lot of internal political damage to the bank.
Political BS.
It’s everywhere.
Dem-controlled zoning board is refusing to let a sign company put up a sign saying, “America loves Trump” on the dishonest excuse that the company isn’t allowed to advertise a product it doesn’t sell. But the sign isn’t advertising any product at all. Seems like a 1A violation.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/04/us-news/battle-over-inspirational-new-pro-trump-sign-ignites-in-ny-court-blatant-attack-on-free-expression/
#74. Let’s flip it around and in the western hemisphere let the USA encroach borders to the south? Let’s move through that disenchanted , imaginary border in North America and engulf the whole continent. It’s now the gulf of America, mam. Let’s keep going.
JUST IN; 1 Democrat clapped for Trump!
While other Democrats just spread the clap….
Jonathan
Watching Nancy Pelosi and company look like they just ate an entire bowl of diarrhea, is well worth the price of admission.
🤣🤣 They are flipping out! Just rewards for the grifting traitors to our Nation.