Grayson Logue: "A Nation Without A Chest"

I thought this was worth a read, perhaps because I have an overly-high opinion of (the first two chapters of) C. S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man. And I think the comments are more interesting than the post itself.
   No time to go back and link, but one point made there is, roughly, that it's simply not rational to discard the idea of nations and national sovereignty when we know of no realistic, plausible replacement. The USA has tried to strike a balance between (a) some kind of strong nationalism that accepts some sort of "realism" in international relations (really: a type of national ethical egoism that rejects the idea of acting for any reason that isn't basically national prudence) and (b) a cosmopolitan universalism that sees the USA itself as nothing more than one country among many. Rather, we take a kind of reasonable middle way that starts from the idea that we have to start where we are and attend most carefully to our own good--but also seeks to rise above that as possible. We recognize that our national interest must often be subordinated to considerations of justice and the greater good. Neither extreme is tenable. The left often seems to go wrong--as in the dispute about illegal immigration and the border--by pushing extreme versions of national altruism that are too harmful to the nation. We want to help non-Americans who are poor and endangered--and we should. But we can't take in so many people that we can't effectively assimilate them. The chances of doing irreparable harm to the nation are simply too high. (And the problem is exacerbated by the left's success in pushing strong versions of multiculturalism that come close to completely rejecting the very idea of assimilation.)
   Anyway, worth reading and thinking about.