Nick Gier

by Nick Gier, professor emeritus at the University of Idaho Like the GOP the British Conservatives are just as detached from reality. —Peter Osborne, The New York Times (10/21/22) Read about Bernie Sanders and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn at bit.ly/3Y5i3cO. After…

Many countries are shifting from a universalcivil nationalism towards the blood-and-soil, ethnic sort.—The Economist (Nov. 19, 2016)  I just returned from a 3-week trip to France, and there were two days where I was close to tears. The first was…

by Nick Gier The watchwords of the American and French Revolutions were liberty, equality, and, for the French, fraternity. Redefining fraternity as traditional community values, I see today’s conservative and liberals attempting to balance these three principles. America’s conservatives focus…