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Andrew Mitchell is an assistant professor of history at Grove City College and a contributing scholar for The Center for Vision & Values.
Five score and two years ago, Robert Frost wrote "Mending Wall," a poem seeking to extract wisdom from stony New England soil. It begins: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall." While he didn't have Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric in mind, our former poet laureate expressed the fundamental concern of our modern age. If we're all members of one human family, why are there still barriers between people, and how can we begin to knock them down?