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The Golden Door

Today on Tablet

by
Marc Tracy
October 26, 2011

Esteemed scholar David Bromwich performs a close reading of Emma Lazarus’ sonnet “The New Colossus” today in Tablet Magazine and finds it, and the statue to which it is dedicated and on which it is inscribed, symbolic of America’s openness, to immigrants and dissent alike.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.