# Nationalism in America

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/nationalism-in-america>

**By** Samuel Goldman, Trevor Burrus, Aaron Ross Powell

**Published:** November 19, 2021

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## Shownotes:

Samuel Goldman highlights three pillars of mid-twentieth-century nationalism, all of which are absent today: the social dominance of Protestant Christianity, the absorption of European immigrants in a broader white identity, and the defense of democracy abroad. Most of today's nationalists fail to recognize these necessary underpinnings of any renewed nationalism, or the potentially troubling consequences that they would engender.

## Further Reading:

[After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division](https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15975.html), written by Samuel Goldman