God & Country Well-Paired

Now up on “On the Square”: Joseph Knippenberg’s Moderating Patriotism , examining the differences between the conservative pairing of God and country and what he calls the “liberal cosmopolitan” pairing of universal empathy and human rights. It’s a kind of companion article to R. R. Reno’s Patriots in Babylon , today’s first article.

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