A Hollow Kind of Patriotism
The economic and geopolitical consequences of America First nationalism are going to be disastrous—not least for Americans themselves.
Matt Johnson
· 17 min read
Nationalism
A collection of 11 posts
A Late Obituary for a Country: Yugoslavia (1918–1991)
Yugoslavia is dead, and it isn’t coming back.
Maria Vivod
· 12 min read
Watching My Great Nation Lapse Into a Cult of Self-Abasement
I wasn’t a patriot until it had all gone; then I would have sold my soul to buy it back. ~Tanya, in Malcolm Bradbury’s Eating People Is Wrong For more than 20 years, from the mid-’70s to the late-’90s, Morningside, a three-hour daily broadcast that mixed
John E. MacKinnon
· 14 min read
America the Indispensable
As the US was convulsed by the Floyd protests and violence in 2020, the Chinese foreign minister had the gall to denounce the “systemic and persistent existence” of repression of “people of color.”
Joel Kotkin
· 13 min read
20 Hungarian Lessons the West Is Still Missing
Hungarian politics is usually much less ideological than you think.
Erik D'Amato
· 12 min read
China and the Question of Taiwan
In modern-day China, nationalism is at its strongest when dealing with the idea—almost an article of religious faith—that the independent island nation of Taiwan is in fact a Chinese state and must be unified with the mainland as soon as possible.
Aaron Sarin
· 13 min read
PODCAST 77: Political theorist Yoram Hazony on national conservatism and why it causes controversy
Israeli political theorist Yoram Hazony talks to Toby Young about the national conservatism conference in Rome, where the speakers included Viktor Orbán, Matteo Salvini, and Marion Marachél, and why British Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski should not have been reprimanded by his party for attending. Yoram recently wrote a piece for
Quillette, Yoram Hazony
· 1 min read
The Virtue of Nationalism—An Internationalist's Critique
The second and most impressive section of the book lays out Hazony’s principled arguments for adopting a vision of the world order characterized by an 'order of independent nation states.'
Matt McManus
· 11 min read
Nationalism and Liberal Empire
The nationalist’s nemesis is not the proponent of liberalism or progressivism, but the imperialist.
Leon Hadar
· 11 min read
Oppression, The Flag, and the Quarterback Whose Aim is Untrue
But is it “oppression”? There has been a tendency in recent years to water down definitions of certain words and then to misapply them.
Susan Lehman
· 9 min read
Kurds Need A Street: A (Classical) Liberal Case for Kurdistan
Western leaders and policymakers who bemoan the referendum can, if they choose, flatter themselves as “realists.”
Jonah Cohen
· 6 min read