30 Years Ago Today,
my parents, my brother, and I arrived in the U.S. As you might gather, October 8 (and June 13, the day in 1975 that we left Russia) is a big day in the Volokh family year.
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Welcome home fellow Americans.
Bring some more if you've got 'em. We can always find more room.
SMG
Welcome home.
Let us never forget, however, that Rooseveltian policies would have kept out this future eminent scholar, as would have McCarren-Walter.
Later initiatives to efectively open wide our country to south-of-the border folks will never compensate for these historically racist and unproductive laws.
Sorry to bring unhappy facts into a very happy celebration (shades of "Unhand me now graybeard loon").
Mazel tov, Eugene and family!!
We ordered hot Russian brides, y'know libertines.
So we got some Russian libertarians?
That's okay, we'll take them instead.
Welcome home.
EH
You are a star - an example of why America is the best because of people like you, who come here.
AKB
And without reading the whole blog and your bio, have you been back? I was in Russia last August, visiting St. Petersberg, Moscow and a small town North of Vladimir. Beautiful country, I wish it all the best.
On another note -- though our politics are very different, it is so refreshing to hear the conservative viewpoint articulated by such an intelligent person in such a logical manner. I just wish others on both sides of the political divide could be as civilized and articulate as you are. Keep it up.
Peter Weinberger
Right - it's so "libertine" to want to build a life and raise a family with someone. It's not like those kind souls that lure people to this country to work in strip clubs and escort services.
-LINO_watcher
"It's so "libertine" to want to build a life and raise a family with someone"
It was a joke. A parody to celebrate the occasion.
You know, tongue in cheek? Russian mail-order brides?
EH
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
-- Emma Lazarus (1849-1887), "The New Colossus"
Congratulations, Prof. Volokh. May the next 30 be even better.
I met you at the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics in the summer of 1979. You were 11 years old, brilliant, quirky, legalistic, brash, and conservative. For the past few years, I've admired your accomplishments, learned something from each of your articles, and continued to be appalled by a subset of your politics. Congratulations on 30 years here and best wishes for much more success in your adoptive country.
IBM
If only to embarras the man- after all such a celebration demands some form of photographic embarassment- would you have any photos from the 1979 Summer? I'm sure that Professor Volokh would welcome the opportunity to post them on the site!!!!!!!!!
She visited Estonia for the first time in 63 years last summer. She finally felt comfortable enough to go back.
Communism is a good antidote to American liberalism. It's not surprising to see you on the American right. The same holds for many others from Cuba, Vietnam, etc.