{"id":1115,"date":"2026-05-14T07:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:04:47","slug":"everybody-scream-for-war-hamilton-nolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/everybody-scream-for-war-hamilton-nolan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEverybody scream for war\u201d &#8211; Hamilton Nolan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe historical precedents of Israel and of the United States are quite different, yes, but the basic dynamic of \u201creligious minority feeling the sting of persecution secures homeland by forcefully taking the land of other, weaker people who were not the ones persecuting them, while being extremely self-righteous about it\u201d\u2014well, that should ring familiar to anyone who has ever watched the Dallas Cowboys play the Washington Redskins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you stand surrounded by hundreds of flexing young men drunk on rage, testosterone, and politics, you can really feel part of a tradition running through all of human history, and through all of the world\u2019s nation-states. Any country that wants to draw borders and motivate its young men to kill for them must whip up a crowd like this, at scale\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamiltonnolan.com\/p\/everybody-scream-for-war\">https:\/\/www.hamiltonnolan.com\/p\/everybody-scream-for-war<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe historical precedents of Israel and of the United States are quite different, yes, but the basic dynamic of \u201creligious minority feeling the sting of persecution secures homeland by forcefully taking the land of other, weaker people who were not the ones persecuting them, while being extremely self-righteous about it\u201d\u2014well, that should ring familiar to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}