Are liberalism and nationalism inherently opposed and what can those who wish to defend liberalism learn from the contemporary rise of nationalist politics? Can the individualism of liberalism be reconciled with the human need for belonging and group identity? Heather Wilford argues that to find a way out of our current morass, we need to acknowledge liberalism’s universalizing tendencies without despairing of integrating it with and balancing it against political particularism.

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Heather Wilford is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Yale University.