No, that’s not a fancy new name for chipped beef on toast. It’s Spengler’s review of Natan Sharansky’s book Defending Identity. I haven’t read the book and probably won’t, but I thought this was worth repeating:
Eliminating all passionate attachments, Sharansky might have said, is a fool’s errand. A rabbinic tale of antiquity reports what happened when God decided to eliminate the ”evil impulse”, by which the rabbis meant the competitive and sexual instinct among men. The next day not a single egg was laid in the land of Israel, and God was obliged to restore the impulse. Europe may have succeeded in eliminating nationalism, or rather, nationalism burnt itself out in two hideously destructive World Wars. As a result children no longer are born to the Europeans. The problem is self-liquidating.
On the other hand, the two countries considered most suspect for their nationalism by the supposedly enlightened Europeans, the United States and Israel, are the only ones in the entire industrial world to reproduce at above replacement level.
There’s more good stuff, too, but it wouldn’t be polite to reproduce the entire thing here.