Author: Jonathan Weinberg

Thanks again to Peter, without whose terrific book we couldn't have done this, and who has responded challengingly and gracefully throughout this conversation. It's been a lot of fun. I want to reassure John that he really isn't the only one here skeptical of global governance. Speaking for myself, I'm not such a fan either. Governance institutions tend...

Peter suggested in a post last night that while there's been a recent resurgence in naturalization applications, we shouldn't see that as a resurgence in "the institution of citizenship" because many of those applications may have been instrumentally motivated. There are two things wrong with that, I think. First, near as I can tell, naturalization applications never weakened...