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Smith (2020) explores the history and evolution of what sacrifice for country might mean, with the turn toward sacrifice for the fatherland coming into play in the 1300s, which is a kind of pre-condition for Nationalism. By the 1900s, it was especially entrenched as represented in World War I, accepted by soldiers and others. But, Nationalism did not really appear until after WWI. As Smith (2020) indicates: “before 1914, perhaps even before 1918, Germans lived in an age of

Victory in Europe was accomplished by May, 1945 --- V-E Day is celebrated on May 8. Hitler had committed suicide on April 30, 1945, in effect avoiding taking any responsibility for what had occurred. Smith (2020) details the huge numbers of both civilian and military deaths leading to the end. A LIVING CONCEPT OF FATHERLAND c. 1945–1950 Smith (2020) provides lots of statistics on the losses during the waning months of the war. And while 80 percent of the Jews that had been

German citizenship now here in the 2020s reflects said empathy-with the other, now a Nation no longer based on genetics, but rather is legalistic, as in: “… children born to foreign parents (get) automatic German citizenship if one parent has been a legal resident of the Federal Republic for at least eight years and the child affirms German citizenship in some way before the age of twenty-three.” It is about a mutual loyalty with the people living within the Nation of Germ

Metaeconomics using Dual Interest Theory (DIT) is based in a serious and systematic attempt at integration across the realm of science & humanities (especially ethics). So, integrating across the recent books addressing the matter of political systems especially as related to Nationalism is easily accomplished, as well as productive of new understanding. The integrating here is across the books by Hanson and Kopstein (2024), Hazony (2018, 2025), Levitsky and Way (2010), and

Review of Hazony, Yoram. 2018. The Virtue of Nationalism. New York: Basic Books, 2018 (and Second Edition, Basic Liberty 2025). This Blog Post applies Metaeconomics and Dual Interest Theory (DIT) to the question of whether some form of Nationalism is compatible with Constitutional Democracy. Unfortunately, Nationalism in all forms tends to manifest in a vertical power rule of men authoritarian system. So, the question comes down to whether a more vertical power rule syst

The key idea which frames the entire book is the Hazony claim that way to many Travelers on the Spaceship Earth see the independent...

I: Two Visions of World Order The two visions include 1) a supranational government covering the entire spaceship Earth something akin to...

VIII: Two Types of Political Philosophy Hazony, as political theorist/philosopher points to how political philosophy has two subjects: 1)...

XIX: Is Hatred an Argument Against Nationalism? Hazony notes how some analysts claim it is Nationalism, to include both the secular and...

Again: This Blog Post applies Metaeconomics and Dual Interest Theory (DIT) to the question of whether some form of Nationalism is compatible with Constitutional Democracy. Unfortunately, Nationalism in all forms tends to manifest in a vertical power rule of men authoritarian system. So, the question comes down to whether a more vertical power rule system is ever better than the horizontal rule of law system in a Constitutional Democracy? So, what think? And, a reminder: In

Williams points to Steven Pinker ( and indirectly, Deirdre McCloskey): “Given his celebration of inequality, it is perhaps unsurprising...

Marx was the champion of an extreme form of socialism as represented in communism. In such a system, very little if any private property...

Williams points to how Mill also pointed to the “… persistent threat of economic inequality … In On Liberty , Mill expresses concern...

Williams makes clear that Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx were all economists, as in political economists. Smith was actually...

Extreme inequality is like the plague, not good for economy or society. Yet, “Rousseau is aristocratic and comfortable with significant...

Hobbes is likely the least egalitarian of all the thinkers considered by Williams (2024). Also, Hobbes was prone to favor not only...

Plato building on Socrates warned against path 0G of the Econs: “(Plato makes clear) that economic inequality undermines the virtue and...

Jesus said it according to Matthew 19: 23-24: “Truly, I tell you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I...

Have now completed the Review of the Plague of Inequality book by Williams (2024), a Princeton University Press book. Have posted the...

It's published! ... Toward a Humanomics with a Theory. See Lynne, Gary D. 2025. "Cargo-Cult Economics to Metaeconomics: Toward a Humanomics with a Theory." Review of Behavioral Economics 13, 3 (May): 257-289. Available through Open Access at https://www.emerald.com/rbe/article-pdf/12/3/257/11046275/105.00000212en.pdf Lynne (2025) is review of the trilogy by McCloskey (2006, 2010, 2016) with the essence of that trilogy represented in McCloskey and Carden (2020). Al