Mises Daily
Author:
Christopher Mayer
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In From Dawn to Decadence , Jacques Barzun maintained that separatism was the “strongest tendency” of the late twentieth century. He provided many illustrations that “the greatest political creation of the West, the nation-state, was stricken.” Among other examples, Barzun cited the efforts for more independence by the Basques, Brutons, and