Newt Gingrich, Motherf---er of Invention

That's what I wanted to call my latest column at the Center for a Stateless Society, but such a title doesn't lend itself well to submitting a piece for publication as mainstream newspaper op-ed. So I went with something else. Teaser:

Look at any of the imaginary lines drawn on the ground by politicians around the world -- "borders" -- and you'll find that those lines started with invented identities, upon which power-seekers piggybacked their pretensions. Gandhi's India and Jinnah's Pakistan, Bolivar's Gran Colombia -- you name it. Nations invent themselves constantly and spontaneously, after which they're boxed in and drained of their inventive energy by their own emerging political classes.

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