March, 2008

Last Post from a Whiskey Patriot

by Chandran Kukathas
The Conversation
March 25th, 2008

Would the world be better off if no one were a patriot — as Professor Kateb suggests? Even in the United States in 1941-45? On one reading of Kateb’s analysis, the answer must be yes. If no one in the world were a patriot, there would, presumably, be no one wanting to fight for his [...]

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Declaring Victory

by Walter Berns
The Conversation
March 25th, 2008

I think that I can now declare victory and, so to speak, go home. Professor Kateb now rests his case by making my argument. He says, as if I had said, patriotism’s “most important meaning is that unreserved loyalty to one’s country in a time of war — whatever one’s country is — is to [...]

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