"...The political power of states in the mid-20th century enabled them to do both great and terrible things. Now we must find out if our politics can function without it." DK
The flight from the concept of the politically powerful nation state after WWII had many ramifications.
The West was determined to go out of the nation state business in favor of larger global organizations.
Various fields abandoned, wholesale, areas of inquiry tarred with the nazi nation state brush.
History was just one of them, resulting in various Whig liberal interpretations in many areas of history since.
Another one of those was in archaeology, where the concept of migrations had taken on a Nazified aura, and became a Whig tar baby for archaeologists.
Now, Reich's work, p. 110, and that of others in ancient DNA research, are confronting the anti Nazi stigma regarding new scientific facts, demonstrating that very large scale migrations happened in human prehistory.
DK's remark above poses a similar challenge to Whig anti Nazi anti nation state bias: the view that the nation state itself is evil because the nazi one behaved badly is untenable. It always was untenable, but it took root in Western liberalism.
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