After Westphalia: Introduction
Kicking off a new essay series on the nation state
Venkatesh Rao | Jul 4, 2020 | 8 | 2 |
I’m kicking off a new essay series this week, After Westphalia, on the future (or lack thereof) of the nation-state. It is intended as a longue durée companion to my Great Weirding series.
When I first visited Western Europe as a backpacking graduate student in 1998, everything looked like a picture postcard of itself. It is a quality that has survived i…