Category Archives: Nationalism

Dr. Yoram Hazony, of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, defends nationalism as a necessary political construct, and the only system of world governments that can protect freedom. Nationalism exists as the opposition to globalism, and by organically confining populations within borders rather than fueling conquests for territory and dominance, serves as a strong protection for freedom.

This is part of Yoram Hazony’s keynote address at the Europe at a Crossroads conference in London, England – May 13, 2019 where he talks about his new book “The virtue of nationalism” where he contrasts nationalism with global imperialism.

It is also the foundation of a democratic political order.

In 1425, a 13-year-old French peasant girl experienced a vision of Saint Michael the Archangel in her father’s garden. It began a journey that would make her a world-famous martyr and transcendent national hero whom Mark Twain deemed “the most noble life that was ever born into this world save only One.”

Joan of Arc had visions that told her to free France from the English, and this was what she set out to do, in one of the least likely stories of martial valor the world has ever known. A slender teenage girl defied every norm of class and gender to convince the authorities that she was born to liberate her country and should be allowed to lead troops into battle. When she did, she won a stunning victory against the English besieging the city of Orléans.

Critics of nationalism contend that it is a relatively recent phenomenon, a contrivance of modern rulers to control and manipulate their populations, and is therefore inherently illegitimate. The Maid of Orléans tells us otherwise.

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