In his latest article, Richard Hanania asserts that “diversity really is our strength.” There isn’t much of an argument to respond to per se — the key point, less justified than merely asserted, is that free markets are good, and increasing diversity increases market freedom. This is supposedly why homogenous European countries have lower GDPs than many American states, including insignificant flyover states. The flyover states are more diverse than the European countries, and so they have freer markets, leading to higher GDP. Hanania, of course, has only circumstantial evidence for this claim, which is mostly narrative based on a thin, superficial veneer of GDP data. Noah Carl tore
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