Lee Drutman, Miller-McCune.com. December 19, 2008. Research shows that seeing the flag doesn't make Americans feel more patriotic, but instead, more nationalistic and more superior to non-Americans.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. July 4, 2008. This Fourth of July, let's remember that it's not our God-given American right to reorder the world to our liking.
Ira Chernus, AlterNet. June 20, 2008. Republicans do not own the rights to this word. Obama has an opportunity to change how we think about patriotism. Will he take it?
Austin Cline, Jesus' General AlterNet: PEEK. April 21, 2008. With all the focus on flag pins and other displays, patriotism becomes a meaningless concept.
Jill C., Brilliant at Breakfast AlterNet: PEEK. April 7, 2008. The debate about what constitutes patriotism has afflicted our discourse since Atwater went after Dukakis.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. March 4, 2008. Obama's campaign draws attention to the fact that he’s a Christian, but does this carry the insinuation that it's a bad thing to be Muslim?
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. February 25, 2008. It's incredible that a news source which purports to be legitimate would embrace and perpetuate this kind of stuff.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. April 18, 2007. What is patriotism, and what is not? Howard Zinn asked recently. Fighting to stop the war in Iraq, fighting to stop gun violence at home: that is true patriotism.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. April 18, 2007. An interview with two of America's leading dissidents on how the highest act of patriotism would be opposing the war in Iraq and calling for a withdrawal of our troops.
Robert Weitzel, AlterNet. January 12, 2007. The story of a Vietnam vet illuminates where the rally cry "support our troops" originated, and what it has come to mean now.
