It is surely almost self-evident that the strongest political emotions are negative: for example, the rich are hated much more than the poor are love… - Theodore Dalrymple

Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one’s own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.

There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.

Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.