Niall Ferguson, the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, discusses becoming an American, the definition of the American identity, and how a dynamic market economy assimilates immigrants.

Dr. Juliet Garcia, former President of the University of Texas at Brownsville, and Anne Wicks, the Ann Kimball Johnson Director of Education Reform at the Bush Institute, discuss the strategies and resources needed to integrate immigrant students into American life – and why meeting this goal is fundamental to the stability of America's democracy.

Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, the Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, explains why democracies thrive when they have a sense of community that is open to all and how Western democracies can manage their flows of immigrants.

Yuval Levin, Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, explains that America's founding ideals can create unity amidst our pluralism in an interview with William McKenzie, Bush Institute’s Senior Editorial Advisor, and Chris Walsh, Senior Program Manager in the Human Freedom Initiative at the Bush Institute.

Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, the Kelly and David Pfeil Fellow at the Bush Institute, explores how our shared "American democratic identity" unites us under longstanding democratic values, institutions, and processes.