The Problem with Nationalism
Allegory of the Concordat of 1801 By Pierre Joseph Célestin François The Problem with Nationalism | Tuesday – July 7, 2026 F orces concerned with the preservation of tradition and its institutions, read marriage for instance, tend to rest their concerns on the nation and more particularly so on the nation-state : the concern being that if these traditional institutions should face disruption from the inside or from the outside, that the nation itself could very easily be thrown into disarray, graven danger, and even a possible dissolution; and while these concerns are valid, they are not placed within the right cause, as the central concern for all men that seek to uphold order—which is actually equivalent with tradition—must be to uphold justice : that is to say cosmological order and the sacred order of the world, read " Hierarchy ". Nationalism, particularly in the form of nationhood , is something that is specifically designed to work against everything that pertains t...