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SUMMARY:MSU Talks; The Immigration Debate: Open vs. Closed Borders
DESCRIPTION:
 Moderated by Carly Watson, Project and Event Coordinator, 
 MSU Debate Team\n
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 Featured participants:\n
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 Bryan 
 Caplan is a well-known proponent 
 of "open borders" by the removal of all 
 immigration restrictions. He recently published 
 "A Radical Case for Open Borders" (with Vipul 
 Naik) in The Economics of Immigration, edited 
 by Benjamin Powell. \n
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 Bryan Caplan is 
 Professor of Economics at George Mason University 
 and Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center. 
 He is the author of The Myth of the Rational 
 Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, 
 named "the best political book of the year" 
 by the New York Times, and Selfish Reasons 
 to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is 
 Less Work and More Fun Than You Think. He has 
 published in the New York Times, the Washington 
 Post, the Wall Street Journal, the American 
 Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the 
 Journal of Law and Economics, and Intelligence, 
 and has appeared on 20/20, Fox News, and 
 C-SPAN. He is now working on a new book, The 
 Case Against Education.  Bryan is also a blogger 
 on EconLog.\n
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 Mr. Renshon has been a Center 
 for Immigration Studies Fellow since 1999 
 and an expert in the areas of citizenship, 
 national identity and the psychology of immigration. 
 He has testified before Congress several 
 times on these matters and has assisted 
 government net assessments in these areas.\n
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 Mr. 
 Renshon is also a professor of political 
 science, coordinator of the Interdisciplinary 
 Program in the Psychology of Social and Political 
 behavior at the City University of New 
 York Graduate Center and a certified psychoanalyst.\n
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 Among 
 his fifteen books are: America's 
 Second Civil War: Dispatches From the Political 
 Center; One America?: Political Leadership, 
 National Identity, and the Dilemmas of 
 Diversity; The 50% American: Immigration and 
 National Identity in an Age of Terrorism, and 
 Noncitizen Voting and American Democracy.\n
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 Sponsored by:\n
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 The John Templeton Foundation 
 through a gift from the Institute for Humane 
 Studies\n
 James Madison College in celebration 
 of Constitution Day \n
 The MSU Debate Team\n
 Office 
 of the Vice President for Research 
 and Graduate Studies\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Office of the Vice President for Research and 
 Graduate Studies\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: https://vprgs.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Stephen Hsu, Vice President\n
 Contact phone: (517) 355-0306\n
 Contact email: hsu@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://vprgs.msu.edu/event/msu-talks-conservatism-college-campuses\n
LOCATION:Kellogg Center Auditorium
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