The people who tell you "nationalism" is bad are misinformed at best, seeking to place you under an "empire" of unelected, often foreign elites. But what they really can't bear is American hegemony.
Rand was militantly anti-Christian and John Galt's speech was about 60 pages too long.
An excellent and informative piece on how nationalism has been misrepresented and the United States has never been an empire! 👏👏👏
Once again I want to do my upmost to promote America 250. Here are some reads to pick up in celebration of our country’s 250th birthday:
• The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstram
• The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership that Rocked the World by Peter Guralnick
• Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly by Philip Norman
• Come On Baby, Just Rock, Rock, Rock! The Inspired Life and Enduring Legacy of Ritchie Valens by Corey Long
• Rebel: The Life and Legend of James Dean by Donald Spoto
• The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s by William I. Hitchcock
• Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War by Michael Dobbs
• One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
• The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs by Jim Rasbenberger
• Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
• Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture by Alan Bisbort
• Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's by Ray Kroc
• Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson
• A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel by Allis Radosh & Ronald Radosh
• Mission on the Rhine: "Reeducation" and Denazification in American-Occupied Germany by James F. Trent
• Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11 by Jim Donovan
This article is so well-written & explained I dropped a link to it in The Last Refuge's Daily Presidential Thread for today (June 29):
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/06/29/june-29th-2026-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-526/comment-page-2/#comment-12666801
Nicely done, Rod!
Rand was militantly anti-Christian and John Galt's speech was about 60 pages too long.
An excellent and informative piece on how nationalism has been misrepresented and the United States has never been an empire! 👏👏👏
Once again I want to do my upmost to promote America 250. Here are some reads to pick up in celebration of our country’s 250th birthday:
• The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstram
• The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership that Rocked the World by Peter Guralnick
• Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly by Philip Norman
• Come On Baby, Just Rock, Rock, Rock! The Inspired Life and Enduring Legacy of Ritchie Valens by Corey Long
• Rebel: The Life and Legend of James Dean by Donald Spoto
• The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s by William I. Hitchcock
• Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War by Michael Dobbs
• One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
• The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs by Jim Rasbenberger
• Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
• Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture by Alan Bisbort
• Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's by Ray Kroc
• Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson
• A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel by Allis Radosh & Ronald Radosh
• Mission on the Rhine: "Reeducation" and Denazification in American-Occupied Germany by James F. Trent
• Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11 by Jim Donovan
This article is so well-written & explained I dropped a link to it in The Last Refuge's Daily Presidential Thread for today (June 29):
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/06/29/june-29th-2026-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-526/comment-page-2/#comment-12666801
Nicely done, Rod!