Tag: Nationalism (Theory and Philosophy)

America’s Most Overlooked Political Divide Is Also Its Most Revealing

It’s not often that a poll result causes me to do a double take. This month, however, a Pew Research Center survey grabbed my attention. As part of a comprehensive poll on the importance of religion in public life, Pew compared Americans’ knowledge of and support for Christian nationalism between September 2022 and February 2024 […]

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Biden’s Opposition to the U.S. Steel Merger Is Trump-Lite

Waving the flag as he heads into election season, President Biden is opposing the acquisition of U.S. Steel, a once-great steel maker headquartered in Pittsburgh, by a bigger and stronger Japanese company, Nippon Steel. “I told our steel workers I have their backs, and I meant it,” Mr. Biden said in a statement. “U.S. Steel […]

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What Is Christian Nationalism, Exactly?

If you’re alarmed by the rise of Christian nationalism, the single worst thing you can do is define it too broadly. If you define it too broadly, then you’re telling millions of ordinary churchgoing citizens that the importation of their religious values into the public square somehow places them in the same camp or on […]

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‘It Is Suffocating’: A Top Liberal University Is Under Attack in India

Jawaharlal Nehru University, named for India’s first prime minister, is one of the country’s premier liberal institutions, a hothouse of strong opinions and left-leaning values whose graduates populate the upper echelons of academia and government. But to the Hindu nationalists who hold power in India, the university and others like it are dangerous dens of […]

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Toby Keith’s Pre-Partisan Politics

Toby Keith already had a string of country hits before he wrote the 2002 song that cemented his place in the then-burgeoning culture wars: “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American).” He later said the song was written in 20 minutes as an emotional response to both his father’s death and the […]

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Modi Opens a Giant Temple, a Triumph Toward a Hindu-First India

They fanned out across the vast country, knocking on doors in the name of a cause that would redefine India. These foot soldiers and organizers, including a young Narendra Modi, collected millions of dollars to be socked away for a long fight to build a grand Hindu temple in Ayodhya, in northern India. Across 200,000 […]

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Europe May Be Headed for Something Unthinkable

Since then, the convergence between the center right and the far right in Europe has gone further. The lesson that center-right parties drew from the rise of right-wing populism was that they needed to adopt some of its rhetoric and policies. Conversely, some far-right parties have become more moderate, albeit in a selective way. At […]

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Kissinger’s Triumphs and Mistakes Offer Lessons

Henry Kissinger was the wisest of American foreign policy leaders and the most oblivious, the most farsighted and the most myopic, the one with the greatest legacy — and the one we should most study to learn what not to do. I knew Kissinger only slightly (he worked to charm journalists, just as he believed […]

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Christian Nationalism ‘Is No Longer Operating Beneath the Surface’

More recently, however, some of Johnson’s out-of-the-mainstream views and alliances have begun to surface. In a July 20, 2005 editorial that Johnson wrote for the Shreveport Times, Johnson argued that All of us should acknowledge the real emotion and strife of the homosexual lifestyle and should certainly treat all people with dignity, love and respect. […]

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Christian Nationalism May Not Be Serious, but It’s Dangerous

The more I consider the challenge posed by Christian nationalism, the more I think most observers and critics are paying too much attention to the wrong group of Christian nationalists. We mainly think of Christian nationalism as a theology or at least as a philosophy. In reality, the Christian nationalist movement that actually matters is […]

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Sikh Separatism Is a Nonissue in India, Except as a Political Boogeyman

During his first trip to India as Canada’s prime minister in 2018, Justin Trudeau made a visit to the northern state of Punjab, where he got a photo op in full Punjabi dress at the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion. He also got, courtesy of the Indian government, an earful of […]

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The Murder of a Sikh Leader Could Be a Wake-Up Call

On Father’s Day this year, two heavyset men were loitering near a Sikh temple in British Columbia. Then the president of the temple, a Canadian citizen and an activist named Hardeep Singh Nijjar, stepped out and climbed into his pickup truck to drive home for dinner with his family. The two waiting men, wearing masks, […]

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Can India’s Global Ambitions Survive Its Deepening Chasms at Home?

Inside a sprawling golf resort south of New Delhi, diplomats were busy making final preparations for a fast-approaching global summit meeting. The road outside was freshly smoothed and dotted with police officers. Posters emblazoned with the image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi bore the slogan he had chosen for the occasion: One Earth, One Family, […]

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G20 Invitation Called India ‘Bharat,’ Setting Off Debate

As India prepares to host the Group of 20 summit this week, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised eyebrows after an official invitation sent on behalf of the president used a different name for the country: Bharat. A dinner invitation sent Tuesday to the visiting leaders of G20 countries described Droupadi Murmu as […]

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