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Category Archives: Nationalism
Walker Connor (1926-2017)
In the summer of 1944, an eighteen-year-old from South Hadley, Massachusetts, enlisted in the United States Army and shipped out to the South Pacific. South Hadley was a paper-mill town on the Connecticut River, Catholic and working class in large … Continue reading
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Benedict Anderson and the Nation as Imagination
Cambridge, November 1956. Students from India and Ceylon marched through the streets to protest the Anglo-French attack on Egypt. A crowd of English undergraduates, big men from the boat clubs and rugby fields, fell on them and started swinging. Benedict … Continue reading
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Anthony D. Smith: The Student Who Kept the Question and Rejected the Answer
On the evening of October 24, 1995, two men faced each other at the University of Warwick. The older man, Ernest Gellner (1925-1995), had fled Prague as a boy ahead of the Nazis, fought his way back into Europe with … Continue reading
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Ernest Gellner
Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) died at the Prague airport on Sunday, November 5, 1995. He had just flown back from a meeting of the Central European University Senate in Budapest, and the heart attack struck him a month and four days … Continue reading
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NYT: ‘Why Does No One Care About the World Cup This Year?’
David Wallace-Wells writes: What is more striking to me is the muted interest of the rest of the world, which every four years for decades seemed almost to pause for a month to engage in a truly global but appealingly … Continue reading
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Liah Greenfeld: The Theorist Who Made Nationalism the Cause of Everything
Few scholars still attempt what Liah Greenfeld (b. 1954) has built across four decades: a single account of how the modern world came to be. She works across sociology, history, political theory, economics, and psychology, and she returns again and … Continue reading
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The Philologist’s Conspiracy: Revilo P. Oliver and the Migration of Classical Scholarship into American Extremism
Revilo Pendleton Oliver (1908-1994) trained as a classical philologist and ended as an intellectual architect of American white nationalism. His life joins two worlds that historians usually keep apart. One is the prewar humanistic academy of textual scholarship and Renaissance … Continue reading
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The Gravity of Belonging
Belonging has gravity. It pulls attention toward the center and leaves the periphery dim. The stronger the group, the less urgent the world beyond it feels. This is not hostility. It is simply what coherent communities do. I grew up … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for American Christian Nationalist Authority
American Christian nationalist high-status actors do not compete for authority by openly saying they want power. They compete by invoking moral languages that present their claims as fidelity to Scripture, responsibility for cultural renewal, or defense of a threatened inheritance. … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Status Competition and Authority Struggles Inside American White Nationalism
American white nationalist actors do not compete for authority by openly saying they want power. They compete by invoking moral languages that present their claims as fidelity, realism, discipline, faith, or survival. This is the core insight of David Pinsof’s … Continue reading
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