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The New Nationalism

Nationalism drove some of the greatest crimes in history. Now it's back with a vengeance.

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Ideology March/April 2019 Comment

A New Americanism

Historians’ failure to tell a common American national story has ceded the field to charlatans offering their own twisted versions—and allowed a dangerous strain of...

Jill Lepore

Proud to be Americans: at a Trump rally in Huntington, West Virginia, November 2018

Civil Society March/April 2019 Essay

The Importance of Elsewhere

Kwame Anthony Appiah makes the case for cosmopolitanism. The supposed incompatibility of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, he argues, is based on a misunderstanding,...

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Containing multitudes: pedestrians on the Brooklyn Bridge, December 2018

Civil Society March/April 2019 Comment

Why Nationalism Works

Distinguishing good, civic nationalism from bad, ethnic nationalism is largely unhelpful, since the two share so many assumptions. The contemporary battle is not to...

Andreas Wimmer

Party in the U.S.A.: at a Fourth of July cookout in Brooklyn, New York, July 2018.

Politics & Society March/April 2019 Comment

False Flags

Many of the self-described "nationalist" leaders who have recently risen to power in societies around the world are actually populist poseurs who have won support by...

Jan-Werner Müller

Full of hot air: at the inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro, Brasília, Brazil, January 2019

Ideology March/April 2019 Comment

This Is Your Brain on Nationalism

Robert Sapolsky asks whether humans can overcome the neurological, hormonal, and developmental underpinnings of their tribalism and offers a rather depressing take on...

Robert Sapolsky

A chimpanzee at the Singapore Zoo, May 2005

Politics & Society March/April 2019 Review Essay

Building a Better Nationalism

In her review of Yoram Hazony's book The Virtue of Nationalism, Yael Tamir suggests that the main problem today is a clash between nationalism and neoliberal...

Reviewed by Yael Tamir

Globalization March/April 2019 Comment

The Broken Bargain

The postwar liberal order was a compromise designed to balance the needs of internationalism and national autonomy. In recent decades, however, that compromise has...

Jack Snyder

Meeting in the middle: Viktor Orban greets Angela Merkel in Budapest, February 2015.

Ideology March/April 2019 Comment

Blood for Soil

As the violent first half of the twentieth century recedes into history, it becomes harder and harder to invoke the specter of ethnic conflict. It would be tragic if...

Lars-Erik Cederman

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