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What Does Citizenship Mean?

What Does Citizenship Mean?
From “Costumes of All Nations” (1882), by Albert Kretschmer and Carl Rohrbach. Public Domain
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We seem to be going back to basics. Generations have gone by when no one felt the obligation to think much about the concept of citizenship in the United States. Intellectual friends of mine are utterly confused by the topic, with no idea where the idea comes from or why it should matter at all. And yet here we are: No topic is as important in determining the future of this country or the world.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]