Ridiculous Claims in Yoram Hazony ’s The Virtue of Nationalism

President Trump recentlysaid, “I’m a nationalist. OK? I’m a nationalist.”  Trump didn’t give a definition of what a nationalist is or what that ideology entails.  Fortunately, political theoristYoram Hazony recently wroteThe Virtue of Nationalism where he attempted to define and present a persuasive argument in favor of nationalism.   This was a worthy goal as nationalism is currently a popular political ideology.  The time is right for a book that defines nationalist and coherently and consistently makes the case for it.  Unfortunately,The Virtue of Nationalismis not that book.  Otherreviewers have identified its many problems, so instead of writing another review, I ’m going to list some ridiculous claims that Hazony makes in his book and some of the logical implications of those claims.  Those claims and implications are numbered below and come from his book and I identify them as one or the other.  They are my summaries of his claims andNOTdirect quotes.1.   Nationalists can’t do the bad things that nationalists aremost known for, according to Hazony ’s definition.Early in his book, Hazony wrote that he “will not waste time trying to make nationalism prettier by calling it ‘patriotism,’ as many do in circles where nationalism is considered something unseemly.”  True to his word, Hazony wasted zero-time conflating nationalism and patriotism, the latter being different and mostly positive.  He just wasted most of his book arguing that any ...
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