Burke and the nation
Yuval Levin | Law & Liberty
In Edmund Burke’s view of the world, the nation occupies a primary place. Burke’s thinking points toward the nation in four distinct ways, which can all help us think about what nationalism actually means in our own time. The first has to do with love of country and its place in politics; the second is about national character; the third is about the nation as the unit of analysis in world affairs; and the fourth is about the nation as the unit of analysis in domestic affairs.
Yuval Levin | Law & Liberty
In Edmund Burke’s view of the world, the nation occupies a primary place. Burke’s thinking points toward the nation in four distinct ways, which can all help us think about what nationalism actually means in our own time. The first has to do with love of country and its place in politics; the second is about national character; the third is about the nation as the unit of analysis in world affairs; and the fourth is about the nation as the unit of analysis in domestic affairs.
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