Patriotism 101

Seymour Martin Lipset famously began one of his courses by proclaiming that, “a person who knows only one country knows no countries.” Lipset believed that only by looking across different societies can one understand what is either distinctive or unique about one’s own. His student, Francis Fukuyama, later noted that this sentiment was “particularly true for Americans, since the United States was such an outlier in comparison to virtually all other developed democracies.” Read Full Article »