Defending a Version of the National Conservativism Project

Many do not want to believe it, but globalism is continuing to unravel, and we are in a forest of confusion about the terms we should use to describe where we are and where we should go. A generation of thinkers on the left and right who have defended the liberal world order see it under attack and declare that dismantling it would erase the long march liberal nations have made away from the parochial prejudices that lead to war. Do we stand on the brink, they wonder, of a return to the nationalism of the past two centuries? The nationalisms of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were re-enchantment movements that deified the nation in the wake of the collapse of Christendom in Europe. God having lost his place, the nation became the idol men worshipped.