Radio Derb Is On The Air: Stanley Fischer And Dual Citizenship, Etc.

01/18/2014

As a podcast on iTunes, listenable/downloadable onscreen at Taki’s Magazine, or as a transcript here.

This week’s title story concerns the nomination of Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel, to be Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve. I take the opportunity to vent against the concept of dual citizenship, which I call “an abomination”:

Patriotism can have only one object. When a British person becomes a naturalized American, there is a way to finesse the situation so that you remain a British citizen, holding dual British and American citizenship. I know people who did that. I myself didn’t. Taking the Naturalization Oath, I declared before a judge that “I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.” Taking an oath is a serious matter, or ought to be.

Well, that’s personal. I’m sure Mr. Fischer has his reasons. I do find it hard to believe, though, that for such a senior post, with such power over the U.S. economy, it wasn’t possible to find someone among the 300 million-odd non-dual citizens of the U.S.A.

The full Radio Derb playbill:

Juicing for dollars. (A baseball player is suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs! Good grief!)
Sex scandal in France. (A French politician is found to have a secret mistress! Zut alors!)
The African horrors. (Tribal wars, cannibalism, nomad v. farmer, Muslim v. Christian, …. Legacies of colonialism, no doubt.)
A treaty about nothing. (Cosmetic diplomacy on Iran.)
A job Americans can’t do… (…unless they are also citizens of somewhere else? See above.)
Congresscritters support Americans! (Sixteen of them stand up to the Slave Power.)
Christie: the story about the story. (Democrats are much better at politics.)
Libertarianism in one country. (Maximum security at the borders, maximum liberty inside them.)
The progressive war on language. (The left’s war on words.)

It’s all there at Taki’s Magazine.

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