Something There Is That Doesn’t Love a Wall
In his poem “Mending Wall,” Robert Frost challenges that truism that “Good fences make good neighbors.”
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.
Over the past decade, some of the world’s leading democracies built walls and fences on their borders. The United States, India and Israel — often respectively described as the world’s oldest democracy, the world’s largest democracy, and the most stable democracy in the Middle East — built 3,500 miles of walls and fences; enough to stretch all the way from New York to Los Angeles.… Seguir leyendo »