Author: David Mountain
David Mountain is a researcher and freelance journalist based in Edinburgh.
The Humanist Case against Patriotism
Among the various accounts of the First World War that appeared following the 1918 armistice, a little-known post-mortem by a Belgian lieutenant carries a striking assertion. “I was always as disgusted by the misuse of patriotism for the promotion of militarism and imperialism as I was by the prostitution of religious feeling to the purposes …