Twenty years ago this summer I spent a season in paradise. At Paradise Farm, to be exact. I had been teaching for a few years at a community college in Massachusetts and wanted to be outside that summer, more active. Having an interest in gardening, I looked in a directory…

In his first weeks as president, Donald Trump has already begun enacting some of his campaign promises, including a ban on immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries. Discrimination based on either ethnicity or religion is, of course, un-American, yet both have a long history in the United States. Nativism has waxed…