“Two cheers for nationalism”

My friend and colleague Ralph Hancock — highly valued in so very many ways — has written a characteristically good piece for the Deseret News:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865677614/Ralph-Hancock-Two-cheers-for-nationalism.html

I’m reminded of Paul Johnson’s deliberately provocative book Intellectuals, which illustrates through a series of biographical case studies (of Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, and others) how many lovers of “mankind” tend to be uncaring beasts toward the actual human individuals so unfortunate as to be close to them.