The Centrist recently sent me an article from Time Magazine titled “The State of Patriotism” by Peter Beinart. The article details the differences between the conservative style of patriotism and the liberal philosophy.
Beinart did a good job of keeping to the issue and not leaning to one side or the other. As he indicates, there is a place for both types of patriotism, but he needed to go one step further. The true patriot is one who embodies both styles of patriotism, not one or the other. For some reason, each side feels their style is exclusively correct and cannot include portions (or the whole) of the other.