Nationalism can be a force for the good

Published March 10, 2017 9:22pm ET



In many quarters of our society today it is taken for granted that nationalism is a malign force, just a step or two removed from Nazism. I take a different view: nationalism rightly understood can be a powerful positive force. Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle were nationalists, after all.

A similar view is taken by Paul Collier, economics and public policy professor at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford, writing in the Times Literary Supplement:

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