No reasonable person would ask a people to assimilate out of such habits. Yet Beinart advises the Yale Five to assimilate down. Conservatives think this is a good question. Not according to conservatives, who think that they can be, and would be better off being, the opposite. Which brings me to the last reason why we support the Yale Five but not the Cornell Fifteen.
Free government depends most strenuously on the habits of the governed.
Specifically, free government is impossible for a people whose habits are not good, which is to say, are immoral. Similar claims cannot reasonably be advanced on behalf of culture. Michael Anton was a 1994 Publius Fellow and is currently a staff consultant to the Claremont Institute .