Nobody, to my knowledge, has ever accused Rep. Ilhan Omar of being a nationalist. But if her recently surfaced comments about Somalia are any indication, she is, in fact, an ardent one — just not for the nation of America….
Maybe you’ve heard of Heidi Przybyla. Maybe you haven’t. She’s a reporter at Politico who the leftists at NBC News, who put her on MSNBC all the time, simply love. Przybyla was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, which is…
It seems like we’re back to one of the most tired, most brainless, and yet most compelling tropes of those on today’s left — namely, screeching, “Racism!” at anybody with whom they disagree politically. Last week, you heard about the…
“All across my country, in big cities and small towns, Ukrainian flags fly from American homes,” President Joe Biden told a crowd in Warsaw, Poland, last Tuesday. The remark is irksome because, as a progressive, Biden represents the political wing of…
In the last few years, we’ve heard empty platitudes from pious politicians and lectures from smug pundits about the need to unite our country and come together to heal our wounds, set aside our differences, find commonality, and rally around…
If there is one idea that unites the American Left and motivates its public policy positions it is anti-nationalism. Anti-nationalism pervades the Left’s domestic and foreign policy preferences. This is one reason why the Left so vigorously opposed President Trump’s…
In 1984, George Orwell depicted totalitarians using language in an effort to control thought for political purposes. Today’s totalitarians on the political and philosophical left have for some time now waged a war on “nationalism,” a term that formerly described…
One of the greatest disabilities President Trump had in his 2016–17 transition was that he is not a political insider who knew people outside his own experience. Trump never understood the old Reagan-era principle that personnel is policy. That led…
Joseph de Maistre said that he had never met a man. He knew Frenchmen, Italians, and so on, but as for “man,” he’d never met one. Similarly, I have never met a “nationalist,” so I can’t say anything about nationalism…