Explore the pros and cons of going global versus keeping it local in today’s politics. What do we owe other people? Are we just as obligated to help someone on the other side of the world as someone ...

Like nationalism, Tagore's perspectives on patriotism are also characterised by certain paradoxes and ambiguities; he was a fervid patriot, yet he openly denounced and deplored the sentiment of ...

The immigration crisis in America is the physical manifestation of our nation’s intellectual confusion. The growing influence of dogmatic cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism has caused chaos in the ...

Craig Calhoun is President of the Berggruen Institute. From 2012 to 2016, he was Director and President of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he remains Centennial Professor.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. At a time when talk of a “clash of civilizations” looks increasingly like a ...