“nationalism” is an obstacle

Book review:

This America: The Case for the Nation

by Jill Lepore

New York: Liveright Publishing Corp., 2019

150 pages

The United States has been a recognizable entity barely—barely—long enough to be a nation.

Today we barely acknowledge our American Indian heritages, which could be part of our nationhood if we thought about it once or twice.

Jill Lepore offers what she is so good at offering: a sensible and informed discussion of what “nation” means, and why “nationalism” is an obstacle to the good life, and why “liberalism” should be what we like to talk about.

Read This America to get her details. Read it and talk about it.

Of course, her book is a political discourse, but it is not rabidly partisan. It’s something to think about.

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