Foreign Policy runs an essay arguing the same thing I did in my Taki Magazine column “America First.” I said:

Extolling the “ultimate wisdom of a borderless world” has become a fad among establishment icons such as Bill Clinton and John Kerry.

For Americans to have their own country is a flagrant violation of the civil rights of foreigners to move here no questions asked.

And yet the Olympics are organized along nationalist lines, and that’s what makes them watchable. …

Feelings of patriotic solidarity help us organize the blooming, buzzing confusion of the world. Without nationalistic enthusiasm, the Olympics would be just a blur of games that we don’t follow and athletes we haven’t heard of. Who are these eight strangers splashing facedown in the swimming pool and why should I care?

But add patriotic solidarity—Oh, the one in lane 5 is American? Go! America first!—and the Olympics are suddenly good television.