John Lukacs
John Lukacs
John Adalbert Lukacsis a Hungarian-born American historian who has written more than thirty books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and A New Republic. He was a professor of history at Chestnut Hill Collegefrom 1947 to 1994 and held the chair of that history department from 1947 to 1974. He has served as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, Princeton University, La Salle University, Regent College in British Columbia and the University of Budapest, and Hanover...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth31 January 1924
John Lukacs quotes about
Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.
All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.
Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.