The War at Home By Christopher Orlet

Our nation has been blessed in many respects -- not least in its ability to assimilate so many bickering nationalities and faiths into a new people as if cut from whole cloth. While some multiculturalists may regard the melting pot as (in Philip Gleason's words) "some sort of waspish cauldron, which cannibalistically devoured the immigrant's past and his ethnic identity," it has nonetheless enabled people of various sects, tribes, clans, and ethnic groups -- or their children anyway -- to progress from clubbing each other over the proper way to dunk a convert in a creek, to clubbing each other over a parking space.

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