Arthur Schopenhauer throws a little shade on some recent events, with help from Michael Dirda and The Washington Post:
“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
– ‘On The Suffering of the World’, Arthur Schopenhauer