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We noticed that your subscription has lapsed. Sign Up. Where else, in an increasingly globalist world shorn of particularism and provincial loyalties, can we unapologetically drape ourselves in our national flags and cheer on our motherlands in athletic combat?

Is there any other major event that so ubiquitously features national flags themselves? The IOC's institutional shortcomings aside, the Olympics therefore serve as a timely and poignant reminder of a simpler, indeed better, era—one well before John Lennon's patently stupid "Imagine" utopia, back when the global order was structured along the realist lines of what the great 18th-century conservative statesman Edmund Burke famously referred to as a "partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead and those who are to be born.

That means the nation-state—and the proliferation of the nation-state, in turn, means the proliferation of nationalism itself. Trite globalist paeans aside, what is the Olympics' Opening Ceremony, distinguished as it is by the presence of so many distinct peoples, if not an ode to the nation-state and to nationalism? We live in a day and age in which nationalism is excoriated as a vestigial outlier from an older, less "enlightened" era.

The global Left, aided and abetted by a peripatetic, jet-setting ruling class for whom the pursuit of open borders, open trade and free flow of capital represents a secularist Highest Good, seeks nothing less than the ultimate eradication of the nation-state and all its attendant benefits—cohesion, solidarity, loyalty, pride, place and an enduring attachment to home and hearth.

Some people suggest only a foreign enemy can provide the sense of common purpose and unity that seems to be so lacking in the United States today. There is a certain logic to that position, of course, but trying to generate unity at home by focusing on enemies abroad has obvious risks too.

The United States has no shortage of foreign-policy problems to deal with, so why not rally the nation behind an equally momentous common danger like the coronavirus—and maybe throw in climate change as well?

Climate change is a bigger and tougher problem, but we already know a lot about what needs to be done there too. Stephen M. Having a single host site would be a simple—and entirely traditional—fix for what ails the Games. From the White House to Turtle Bay, sanctions have never been more popular.

But why are they so hard to make work? Argument An expert's point of view on a current event. By Stephen M. August 3, , AM. Tags: Sports , United States. Argument David Clay Large. Trending 1. Latest Analysis. The U. Harper , John Nagl. The Human Rights vs. Argument Derek Grossman. Argument Erica Marat , Assel Tutumlu.