Nationalism's Success

I always like reading these big all-encompassing essays about the course of human history... they're more likely to be wrong on a grand scale but I think it's a more exciting read that way. 

Jerry Z. Muller writes in Foreign Affairs about the global success of ethnic nationalism in politics. It's something that I think we as Americans have difficulty understanding, but it's still driving politics in many places in the world.

Read it here.