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The Love That Dares Not Speak Its Name

The Love That Dares Not Speak Its Name

The Scaffolding of American Nationalism | 2 of 2

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Currier & Ives, 1861. Public Domain via Library of Congress

[A nation is] is an assembled multitude of rational creatures bound together by a common agreement as to the objects of their love.

—St. Augustine of Hippo

Americans tend not to refer to ourselves as nationalists. The term is frequently deployed as a catch-all vessel of opprobrium. To present ones…

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