I’m not as ambivalent about a wall on the border as Jonah is in today’s column, but something else in the piece sparked a thought. Jonah lists several synonyms for the “baser instincts of the public” that supposedly motivate the desire for controlled immigration, and properly rejects that they are all that drives the issue. Question: Is there a good antonym for these words? Aristotle said in the Ethics that each virtue has two related vices, one marked by the excess of the virtuous characteristic, the other by its deficiency. Xenophobia etc. describe the excess of patriotism or group loyalty or whatever; but how to pithily label the vice marked by the lack of that characteristic? In Who Are We?, Sam Huntington uses “cosmopolitanism,” which is OK, but sounds too much like a cocktail, a racy women’s magazine, or Stalin’s euphemism for the Jews. Other unsatisfying possibilities are xenophilia, xenomania, self-loathing, or globalism. I’ve always liked “post-Americanism,” though that’s a little too wonkish. Any ideas?