📘 The National Mind is the first step in a long-term research project on how nationalism shapes the human mind and culture.
🧠 My current focus: how 'national' education systems produce and sustain national ways of thinking.
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And check out The National Mind—a new take on how we inherit, internalize, and reproduce national thinking.
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Drawing on history, philosophy, sociology, and cognitive science, The National Mind reveals how nationalism becomes a deeply embedded way of thinking and feeling—not just a political stance.

This perspective helps explain today’s global surge in nationalism and populist politics

The National Mind asks:

How does nationalism shape our sense of self and the world?
Why does it feel so natural?
And can we unthink it—without dismissing it?

When a particular knowledge system becomes ‘common sense,’ it leaves little room for alternatives.

It’s cognitively efficient. Emotionally satisfying. Socially convenient.

That’s how nationalism becomes not just a belief, but a mindset.