How a Canadian-born Irishman paved the path of hatred that leads to Tucker Carlson

The United States likes to call itself a melting pot of people from all nations, creeds, colors, and languages. That's how the story was told in elementary school in the 1970s in the deeply segregated city of New York, and on TV through School House Rock segments sandwiched between the Saturday morning cartoons. In our more nuanced time -- built from gray areas -- we know it was only ever true for European, Christian, white speakers of fluent English. And sometimes not even them. "No Irish need ...