Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction

Tim Hirschel-Burns is a lawyer, policy advocate, and writer. His writing focuses on global poverty and inequality and has appeared in outlets including Foreign Policy, African Arguments, and Just Security.

Tim Hirschel-Burns

Impossible Systems: On Carly Goodman’s “Dreamland”

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” — Aristotle

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Tim Hirschel-Burns is a lawyer, policy advocate, and writer. His writing focuses on global poverty and inequality and has appeared in outlets including Foreign Policy, African Arguments, and Just Security.