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Greg Grandin teaches history at New York University. His latest book, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.
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