I disagree. In the examples you give it is not that the importance of the Nation State has decliend but rather that for many of us, the rights of self determination are more important than any partic… (View Post)

No one took away your European identity. the EU was not Europe and being in or out of it makes you no more or less European. For all that it matters, I was personally affronted when I was forced to b… (View Post)

It has ever been thus and yet the nation state has endured as the most stable system we have for ensuring democracy. (View Post)

Those polyglot empires make the basic functioning of democracy much more difficult. It is no surprise that democracy started in well defined city states, was preserved in a debased form in geographic… (View Post)

I have perhaps 100ish friends from the US gleaned from many years of many different threads of my life, and the overwhelming reaction has been one of horror and outrage. Sadly in this instance I thin… (View Post)