DARWINISTS VS. DARWINISM:

Montenegro's challenge to Europe (The Monitor's View, 5/25/06, CS Monitor)

The emergence of a new nation in old Europe is a bit like the sudden surfacing of a volcanic island. Life around it adjusts. A new ecology springs up. With the mountain realm of Montenegro voting for independence, Europe's evolution, too, must now shift.

Montenegro, tiny though it is with 612,000 people, and located in the continental backwater of the Balkans, declared separation from Serbia in a May 21 referendum. This has revealed an unresolved tension in Europe between toleration for the kind of old-style nationalism that sparked many wars and promotion of the half-century experiment to unify Europeans around the political and economic ideals of Western civilization.

Odd how the secular Left is somehow always surprised by nationalism/racism.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 24, 2006 8:11 PM