Book Reviews
Wishful Nationalism
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A review of Yael Tamir, “Why Nationalism” (Princeton University Press, 2019)
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Peter Spiro is the Charles Weiner Professor of Law at Temple University Law School.
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A review of Yael Tamir, “Why Nationalism” (Princeton University Press, 2019)
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The Trump executive order banning nationals of seven Muslim states and suspending refugee admissions is, as a matter of policy, monumentally stupid. It is malevolence tempered only by incompetence, as Ben Wittes puts it. That may ultimately prove its constitutional undoing, but the result is hardly foreordained. Beyond this weekend’s initial skirmishes, legal challenges to the order face an uphill battle.
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A review of Michael Glennon and Robert Sloane, Foreign Affairs Federalism: The Myth of National Exclusivity (Oxford University Press, 2016).
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