Let us not distrust and fear those, like Mr. Obama, who call us to an ideal of unity, simply because it ’sounds like the same old nationalism.”
Those who are paralyzed by fear of the excesses of nationalism, do well to recognize that there is, at present, no organizational engine to replace the nation state.

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Those who vilify the ‘nation-state’ in the name of some ‘global unity’ which has never existed, except in the minds of academic idealists, are in want of one important thing which they might champion: a larger, viable, global organization which offers effective displacement of national politics. (The United Nations, an ongoing and worthy experiment, is most noteworthy for its ineffectiveness as a uniter of nations.)