Is there a corner of the world untouched—or as some would put it, unsullied—by nationalism? Our own president-elect has called himself a nationalist, a most un-American locution, when you ...

The “ism” added to “national” indicates that nationalism is an ideology. It is a love of the nation to which one belongs. That love can be too extreme, as when a person says “my country ...

“Nationalism” is one of those words that tends to appear in print after a modifier. Nationalism can be “ethnic” or “economic.” It can be “white,” “black” or “Christian.” It ...