An infinitely malleable patriotism?

Clyde Wilson, at Chronicles Magazine, makes some claims about present-day American patriotism which ought to be controversial.

Surely there has never in history been any “patriotism” so disembodied as this allegiance to “America.” It is not even as substantial as allegiance to a “proposition nation,” which at least implies a theoretical construct that can be more or less described (even if deceitfully) . . . . CONTINUE