(The Hill) – American nationalism was indicted as a cover for xenophobia and racism in the midterm elections. Yet, absent U.S. nationalism’s strongly positive side, the related concept of American exceptionalism fails. Opponents deride American exceptionalism as braggadocio or narcissism.…
(The Washington Post) – One thing you don’t see in Polish cities — at least not in Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow, certainly not if you’re visiting as a guest of the foreign ministry — is many homeless people. National estimates…
(Washington Examiner) – “The past is never dead. It isn’t even past,” William Faulkner famously wrote. While he was writing of his native Mississippi, he could have been describing Poland. The past weighs heavily in Warsaw. It underlies the desire…