The Republican newcomer brings better policies to the table than his opponents, but often reduces the issues of cultural disintegration and national renewal to just GDP growth.
Thanks to authors like Hazony, we can see more clearly the deceptive arguments of those who condemn the nation-state to either extinction by the verdict of history, or to extermination by means of a brutal imperial policy.
FROM THE SUMMER 2023 PRINT EDITION: ‘John Doe conservatism,’ inspired by Frank Capra’s 1941 American film classic, Meet John Doe, refers to a political philosophy of simplicity, quotidian human decency, and humdrum heroism.
What is national identity? An experience of a nation, its history, its personalities, its reputation, self-esteem, and the vision it has for its future.
Engels invites us to free ourselves from the belief that the “nation state offers the answer to all our existential and identity problems” and proposed a “pan-European conservative front.”
The most important distinction now runs between globalists and protectionists. The continuing reference to the old Left to Right coordinate system hinders us in our search for a middle ground between the local and the global.
