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On Tuesday’s Carl Higbie FRONTLINE, the host delivered a blistering critique of cultural assimilation in America and made a blunt appeal: immigrants and citizens alike must adopt the values that built this country or risk watching our national cohesion fray. Higbie’s show has increasingly foregrounded this theme as part of its broader mission to defend what he calls “American values” against the corrosive influence of elites and partisan media.
Higbie didn’t couch his message in academic language; he spoke plainly about the costs of celebrating difference when it means excusing behavior that contradicts our laws and civic traditions. That tone tracks with the network’s stated mission for the program to expose big-government overreach and cultural leftism while championing personal responsibility and patriotism.
At its heart this debate isn’t about ethnicity or creed — it’s about whether newcomers learn English, respect the rule of law, and accept the founding principles that made America exceptional. Conservatives should welcome people who want to join our project, but we must insist assimilation means adopting liberty, self-reliance, and respect for institutions that protect our freedoms.
The alternative Mr. Higbie criticized — a permissive multiculturalism that applauds separatism and excuses civic illiteracy — has predictable consequences: fractured communities, declining trust, and a politics of grievance. America was never meant to be an experiment in permanent cultural segregation; it succeeded when shared values and common civic purpose bound people together across backgrounds.
Policy follows culture, so Higbie’s call has practical implications: enforce our borders, reform welfare and immigration incentives so newcomers integrate, and strengthen schools to teach civics, history, and the English language. Those are not radical asks; they are commonsense measures that restore the social compact and reward assimilation rather than penalize it.
Patriots should take his message as a challenge. If conservatives want a country that endures, we must win the cultural argument, elect leaders who will demand integration, and stop apologizing for expecting newcomers to join the American project. The future of our republic depends less on abstract lectures and more on passing down a shared belief in liberty, responsibility, and country.
