Jefferson’s Warnings, Mass Migration, and the New Balkanization of the West Thomas Jefferson warned that when people are “piled upon one another in large cities,” faction and centralization corrode republican self-government. Two centuries later, mega-metros and mass migration—managed poorly—are accelerating a new balkanization: fragmented enclaves, polarized politics, and policy made by distant blocs rather than … Continue reading Cities, Conquest, and the Closing of the Republic