{"id":12228,"date":"2020-03-04T11:20:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T19:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12228"},"modified":"2020-03-04T11:20:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T19:20:31","slug":"globalization-bleeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/globalization-bleeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Globalization Bleeding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By&nbsp;the early 21st century, cosmopolitans were gushing that high-tech, instant communications, transnational agencies and agreements, free-flowing capital, international corporations, and a new eerily uniform global elite had, finally, made nationalism, borders, and even the nation-state itself all irrelevant. Nationalism was apparently relegated to dustbin of history, as we hit peak Socratic citizen-of-the-worldism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were always two flaws to these adolescent giddy reports from world-bestriding&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;op-ed journalists about win-win globalization, with their praise of gleaming airports and superior high-speed rail in what was otherwise Communist China, or accounts of flying first-class on Qatar Airlines was heavenly compared with backward United or American Airlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Nothing New under the Sun<br><\/em><\/strong>One, globalization was not the end of history. It is a recurrent, cyclical, and at best morally neutral phenomenon that has always, at least in relative terms, waxed and waned over the past 2,500 years of civilization \u2014 although recent transcontinentalism carries greater consequences in the era of electronic interconnectedness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/03\/globalization-bleeding\">Read the full article here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review By&nbsp;the early 21st century, cosmopolitans were gushing that high-tech, instant communications, transnational agencies and agreements, free-flowing capital, international corporations, and a new eerily uniform global elite had, finally, made nationalism, borders, and even the nation-state itself all irrelevant. Nationalism was apparently relegated to dustbin of history, as we hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3be","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12139,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/american-citizenship-is-eroding\/","url_meta":{"origin":12228,"position":0},"title":"American citizenship is eroding","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Highland County Press Today, many condemn the idea of nationalism by connecting it to race hatred (e.g., white nationalism). 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