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Entry: An Enduring Problem Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/an_enduring_problem#30203 Post contents: This is all very *interesting*, but it's also very *unclear* To take one example among many: "...nationalism insists not only on the priority on [of?] loyalty to the nation, but assumes that competing loyalties are a threat to the nation..." Is this supposed to be an empirical generalization, or a conceptual truth? And "priority" compared to what? Suppose that, like most normal human beings, I'm partial to my fellow Americans, in comparison to foreigners (all else being equal)...while at the same time having no problem at all with foreigners who feel just the same way right back at me - and certainly not considering them (necessarily) a "threat?" Is that not enough to make me a "nationalist?" Sent at: 2008 12 01