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Actually, Trump tweeted that himself. Didn't find that on the NPR site now (perhaps in a radio broadcast?) At least he was still bitching about gettin...

I think the basic problem is learning and the interaction with the World that isn't part of you. Too many times the focus is just on the very broadly ...

So he went to the cemetary? Ok, then my bad. Has he visited the troops in Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria? He has promised to go to see the troops, but he ...

The German is handling of their own history is extremely rare. Self criticism is usually very rare. This is not because they lost the war, just as in ...

What World War 1 was compared to other wars is visually presented in the Auckland Museum War Memorial. There in New Zealand, on the other side of the ...

Even if there is another thread for the subject, I think this Renewal and Remembrance thread is the most proper one to note this following anecdote. D...

I'm sure people remember what they did personally. And on the rare occasion people can experience even collective guilt as the Germans do even now.

Only when it's beneficial for the capitalist. And countries aren't irrelevant of their national companies. Just look how many corporations are nationa...

I think the reasoning goes that when obvious institutional and legal discrimination, like women not being able to vote or homosexuality being illegal,...

Yet you disregard the fact that most countries do have good relations with each other and conflicts are quite rare these days. If you argue that count...

So basically irrationality or what the number would be used here wasn't important. "Known in advance" is quite vague definition here. By whom? Someone...

Lol. Yeah, and there's a huge difference campaign donors and outright and evident corruption of the Trump administration. Once Qatar bailed out Jared ...

Good viewpoint. The fact is that a lot of the legal agenda and objectives that various political movements have histrorically had have already been re...

Um, who did Trump visit first when he got elected President? With Trump Saudi-Arabia got a far bigger friend than any Hillary administration ever woul...

Terrapin, repeating what Apokrisis said above, a democracy is "a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, ...

Isn't that part of their identity then? Even if they don't actually like the country or it's government. (Who wouldn't be critical about his or her go...

Question, Terrapin: what do you think citizenship is? If you go to a vacation on another continent and fly there, what do you think that passport is a...

Perhaps you haven't thought this out. How could there be a block of citizenry who have no notion of a unique ethnic or other cultural identity? OK. Wh...

Tzeentch, you are correct about the agenda of the Soviet Union, which actually has continued with Putin (which is no wonder, when you think where Puti...

Give an example. Do you have in mind another way how people could identify with their nation or is the whole identity issue meaningless?

That's the problem. Vast majority of people don't have a problem for example with transgender people being treated equally, but many can get offended ...

Well, that may what I left out from the quote from Fukuyama. He acknowledges that these before invisible minorities did have success and they indeed h...

Thanks for the responses, everyone. I think the link between a nation state and it's citizens, which then as citizens of that state do share a common ...

The only ones I can come up with that are truly bipartisan agendas for both parties are: 1) Keeping political power to themselves, hence preventing an...

So why then irrational numbers in the first place? Unknown in advance is quite a loose definition the way you say it. Now a rational number that repea...

I think the number has to be transcendental, not algebraic and hence not just irrational. Then it Works, I assume. You see algebraic numbers are count...

Nonsense (or was this a bit tongue in cheek, bitter?). Everywhere they have had such ludicrous policies they have only backfired creating a bigger mes...

I would say defending against an attacker is justified. War isn't anything glorious, but defending against an agressor it is justified and isn't a fut...

Usually it's the fourth generation when history doesn't touch us anymore personally as few have had their great grandparents alive to tell them to how...

You mean early astronomy, right? I think something perfecting navigation isn't astrology. Astrology is when you measure celestial bodies to give polit...

As the old name of economics shows, political economy, the bond between economics and other social sciences is obvious. Just as you can go from biolog...

I think so yes. Trump is basically a reality TV President focused on his appearance. The only policies he has pushed through are the tax cuts for the ...

Even if people can be quite fanatic in their support of their team, it's still a hobby, past-time. And of course if the team loses all it's games ther...

Not actually. There can be some specialized professions that applying for a work permit might be easier. Here it goes so that before a residence permi...

Trump doesn't care a shit about what is effective in the real life. His supporters want the terrorists to be punished and he wants to look good for hi...

The generals typically have been so. A telling anecdote (that Trump himself told to reporters) is when Trump interviewed Mattis for the job. Trump ask...

Nordic countries have totally open borders to each other. Nordic people can cross them freely, there are no major problems between Nordic countries, b...

So you think that being fans of sport teams can replace the nation state? Or perhaps we could relate to those liking Star Wars and those being in the ...

If their logic is totally wrong, it's simply useless. You cannot use it in solving practical problems or anything. It cannot be used as it's intended....

Hardly surprising as Trump picked his defence secretary because he had a nickname of "Mad dog". Likely was dissappointed when the former general wasn'...

The backlash on the Sessions firing will be interesting. Let's see when Trump goes after Mueller if the US still has some remains of rule of law and a...

Refuse? These connections are so obvious that economists have to refuse from acknowledging them? The idea that you could 'base' economics on theories ...

Don't forget the need for water.

How groups behave is different from how an individual behaves, even if groups are made of individuals. Just like a metallurgist cannot design an airpl...

I'm sure that people who commit suicide are depressed. There's nothing suprising what Sapolsky says, especially if you focus on younger people. Yet I ...

Nation states just have given so much power to corporations that they seem to be powerful. They are not. Corporations are inherently weak structures, ...

This is the problem when handling misinformation or pure disinformation. To think that disinformation can be corrected by showing it's false is the wr...

I disagree. They (Trump and his supporters) just love when some "pinko-liberal snowflake SJW" goes into a 'Trump is Hitler'-rant. What better example ...

I think one thing is quite clear: these areas of academic research are not young or making any step of turning into a "hard" science. First and foremo...

Well, at least here political science is called that and it is taken as an academic research area. Yeah, that field either hasn't solved all the polit...