Europe may have contributed
immensely to philosophy but logic seems to have been in short supply at times,
as Europe ties itself in ideological knots in service of nationalism itself, as
if that ideology had not given rise to two world wars in the twentieth century.
I am not referring to the incendiary, irrational fear of the word, federalism,
being applied to the European Union, but, rather, to the role of nationalist
ideology in distorting the application of comparative institutional politics by
journalists.
The full essay is at "On the Ideological Illogic of European Federalism."
