"Patrick Buchanan with Footnotes"

Alan Wolfe reviews Samuel Huntington's Who Are We? for Foreign Affairs, praising some of its "realist" take on the impact of immigration on American culture yet also finding the book "riddled with the same kind of moralistic passion -- at times bordering on hysteria -- that Huntington finds so troubling in American Politics." Like, for example, his "romantic nostalgia for Anglo-Protestant culture," and fatalistic sense that said culture will be subsumed by waves of non-Anglo immigrants with their different languages and their different values.

Judge for yourself: a huge chunk of Huntington's argument was published in Foreign Policy a few months ago, leading to sharp rebukes from David Brooks and Gregory Rodriguez. But nothing yet, it would seem, from the NYTBR, though I'm sure something much like Wolfe's essay must be in the works. Given Huntington's high place in the firmament of the intelligentsia, it strikes me as impossible to ignore his attempt to resurrect American nativism, even as he attempts to purge it of its racist connotations. (And again, whether he manages that feat is something individual readers will have to judge for themselves.)