Current debates over nationalism seem to generate more heat than light. Critics claim it amounts to creeping fascism. Champions claim it’s the way out of conservative malaise and failure. Figuring out who’s right is hard to assess, though, since disputants use the word to refer to so many different things. We might expect this equivocation from critics on the left. But even those who endorse some form of “nationalism” don’t seem to agree on what it means.
Remnant readers are well aware that the COVID-19 “vaccine mandates” and “vaccine passports” imposed in Western nations, or certain political subdivisi.
“Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul,” by Daniel J. Mahoney is a study of two modern conservative philosophers: Pierre Manent, and Roger Scruton.