Category Archives: Nationalism

LAT: I had lunch with a right-wing white nationalist group. Here’s what I learned

Annie Z. Yu writes for the Los Angeles Times: They don’t actually support Donald Trump or the Republican party. “If you think about it, most Trump supporters are working-class white Americans. Those are our constituents,” said Matthew Heimbach, the 25-year-old … Continue reading

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Lawrence Summers: ‘How to embrace nationalism responsibly’

As soon as I read that headline in the Washington Post, I thought, Jews! Responsible nationalism from a Jewish perspective is nationalism that does not threaten Jews. In other words, neutered nationalism. Jews tend to fear gentile nationalisms because by … Continue reading

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WP: Dallas gunman studied ‘shoot and move’ tactics, black nationalism

Does nationalism cause people to kill? No more than religion or other common political ideologies such as socialism. All nationalisms contain the capacity for genocide. All nationalisms contain a victimhood and all forms of victimhood contain a nationalism. Different groups … Continue reading

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Vox: ‘Ethnic nationalism is bad for the Jews’

What they mean to say is “Gentile ethnic nationalism is bad for the Jews.” From Matthew Yglesias at VOX: That Trump’s efforts to mobilize white nationalism as a force in American politics has inadvertently also mobilized anti-Semitism does not come … Continue reading

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Does Nationalism Cause War?

Comments at Steve Sailer: * Nationalism makes a people attractive, just as self-confidence makes people attractive. * So nationalism causes war? That’s funny. Ever since the Arab nationalism movement was crushed in the 60s, the Middle East seems to have … Continue reading

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