In the last century, nationalism ravaged Europe. So why do today’s resurgent nationalists, who advocate essentially the same political doctrine, believe their agenda will somehow lead to different results?
Please don’t twist anything Leonard said into sounding like it was support of unAmerican collectivism from abroad.
How long has it been since you were warned about globalist collectivism and the anti-intellectual gymnastics that would take to think that nationalism is bad for the United States? Read Rand, the fiercest nationalist in American history.
I want New Ideal to be as convincing as possible, so here are a few suggestions.
FIrst, your piece would persuade more people if it defined nationalism precisely and distinguished it, point by point, from patriotism and national self-determination. Hazony argues, I believe, that Nazism was "imperialism," not nationalism, and many decent people find that persuasive, especially since national independence movements freed countries like Poland. A reader sympathetic to Hazony will dismiss ‘nationalism ravaged Europe’ unless you make that distinction.
Second, I notice this essay first appeared in 2022. Since then, the stakes have risen. Hazony’s most prominent admirer is now Vice President JD Vance, who has called him "quite influential" and advocates the kind of national economic policy you criticize. An updated version should name Vance as our Nationalist in Chief.
People confound nation with ideology. We should feel good about a country not because it happens to have a particular geographic location or history but based entirely upon the principles upon which it operates. My loyalty is not to America. It is to liberty, individualism, and reason.
Nationalism and populism in part arise from our tribal desires to belong to something larger and more powerful than ourselves. Psychologically it can stem from a sense of inferiority.
I think Peikoff warned about a US religious despotism about 10-15 years ago.
Please don’t twist anything Leonard said into sounding like it was support of unAmerican collectivism from abroad.
How long has it been since you were warned about globalist collectivism and the anti-intellectual gymnastics that would take to think that nationalism is bad for the United States? Read Rand, the fiercest nationalist in American history.
I want New Ideal to be as convincing as possible, so here are a few suggestions.
FIrst, your piece would persuade more people if it defined nationalism precisely and distinguished it, point by point, from patriotism and national self-determination. Hazony argues, I believe, that Nazism was "imperialism," not nationalism, and many decent people find that persuasive, especially since national independence movements freed countries like Poland. A reader sympathetic to Hazony will dismiss ‘nationalism ravaged Europe’ unless you make that distinction.
Second, I notice this essay first appeared in 2022. Since then, the stakes have risen. Hazony’s most prominent admirer is now Vice President JD Vance, who has called him "quite influential" and advocates the kind of national economic policy you criticize. An updated version should name Vance as our Nationalist in Chief.
People confound nation with ideology. We should feel good about a country not because it happens to have a particular geographic location or history but based entirely upon the principles upon which it operates. My loyalty is not to America. It is to liberty, individualism, and reason.
Nationalism and populism in part arise from our tribal desires to belong to something larger and more powerful than ourselves. Psychologically it can stem from a sense of inferiority.