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A prominent lecture by Ernest Renan, "What is a Nation?", argues that a nation is "a daily referendum", and that nations are based as much on what the people jointly forget as on what they remember. Carl Darling Buck argued in a 1916 study, "Nationality is essentially subjective, an active sentiment of unity, within a fairly extensive group, a ...
Addie Viola Smith (1893–1975) was an American attorney who served as the U.S. trade commissioner to Shanghai from 1928 to 1939, the first female Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Foreign Service to work under the Commerce Department, and the first woman to serve as trade commissioner.
The existence of a nation (you will pardon me this metaphor) is a daily plebiscite, [a] just as the continuing existence of an individual is a perpetual affirmation of life. This leads Renan to the conclusion that "A nation never has a veritable interest in annexing or keeping another region against the wishes of its people".
The Nation is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Majid Nizami Trust and based in Lahore, Pakistan. [2] [3] Rameeza Nizami is the Executive Editor of The Nation. She is the adopted daughter of the renowned Pakistani journalist, the late Majid Nizami (3 April 1928 – 26 July 2014). [4] It is published from Lahore, Islamabad, Multan and ...
The Daily is a daily news podcast produced by the American newspaper The New York Times, hosted by Michael Barbaro and Sabrina Tavernise. Its weekday episodes are based on the Times reporting of the day, with interviews of journalists from The New York Times. Episodes typically last 20 to 30 minutes.
The headquarters of The Cornell Daily Sun. The Cornell Daily Sun is an independent newspaper at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It is published twice weekly by Cornell University students and hired employees. Founded in 1880, The Sun is the oldest continuously independent college daily in the United States. [2]
The Nation is a daily newspaper published in Lagos, Nigeria. According to a 2009 survey it was the second-most-read newspaper in Nigeria [citation needed], and this result was repeated in a 2011 report by The Advertisers' Association of Nigeria (ADVANS). [2] The paper's website says it stands for freedom, justice and the market economy.
Originally organized by readers and writers of Daily Kos, a liberal political blog, it was previously called YearlyKos and rebranded as Netroots Nation in 2007. The new name was chosen to reflect the participation of a broader audience of grassroots activists, campaign workers and volunteers, thought leaders , messaging technology innovators as ...