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[The American Conservative] Is America Still a Nation?
Electing Biden could mean the demise of the American nation as we know it — but will conservatives be bold enough to articulate that choice?
Who Rules? Sovereignty, Nationalism and the Fate of Freedom in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Roger Kimball. Encounter Books; 128 pages; $22.50.
America’s ongoing woke revolution — it has been widely remarked — borrows the centrifugal forces of 1790s French Jacobinism, so there’s perhaps never been a worse time for conservatives to quote the Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen of 1789. And yet one nugget of wisdom in it could well become a guiding principle for an American right in flux. “The principle of any sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation,” reads article 3. “No body, no individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from it.”
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