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Category Archives: Nationalism
Millenial Woes Retires From Nationalism
Colin emails: Millennial Woes recently watched your livestream about himself and informed me that you had a few things wrong. “He says that I was reported on by “a local newspaper” – no, it was the front page of the … Continue reading
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#297 8-7-19 Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding by Walker Connor XXVI
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Walker Connor – Texas Ranger
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Why Do We Have Mass Killers?
Rod Dreher writes: Can we blame Elizabeth Warren, socialism, anime, or the Devil, for Connor Betts’s massacre? No. What about Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook killer? There was nothing political in his madness. He was autistic — but millions of … Continue reading
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Black, White Or Christian?
Do people tend to become nicer when they become racial nationalists? My general sense of things is no. Do most Jews become nicer when they become Orthodox? No. By contrast, most people become nicer when they become Christian (or work … Continue reading
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Nationalism & Relativism
Daniele Conversi wrote in 2002 (about Walker Connor’s classic work Ethnonationalism: The Quest For Understanding: Nationalist movements are often thought to manifest a solipsist attitude.Connor rightly points out the ‘general insensitivity that one national group and its leadership customarily exemplify … Continue reading
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Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding (Princeton University Press) By Walker Connor
Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding by Walker Connor #270 7-1-19 Ethnonationalism: The Quest For Understanding (Princeton University Press) Walker Connor #271 7-2-19 Ethnonationalism: The Quest For Understanding By Walker Connor II #272 7-3-19 Ethnonationalism: The Quest For Understanding By Walker … Continue reading
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Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding by Walker Connor
Political Science professor Rupert Emerson defined nation: “the largest community, which when the chips are down, effectively commands men’s loyalty, overriding the claims both of lesser communities within it and those which cut across it or potentially enfold it within … Continue reading
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Schindler’s Fate: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Population Transfers
Academic Robert M. Hayden writes in 1996: In 1934, as the guarantees of the minority treaties of the Versailles settlement proved utterly illusory and as Hitler consolidated power in Germany, C. A. Macartney, the secretary to the Minorities Committee of … Continue reading
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The Hijacking of American Nationalism
Paul Gottfried writes: Now, a conference on “conservative nationalism,” which will take place in Washington in July, may be pushing a “nationalism” that is at least as adaptable as Judis’s. One featured speaker, Claire Lehmann, the founder of Quillette, will … Continue reading
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