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On Home and Horizon

The Cosmopolitan/Provincial Divide (Class Series, Essay 4)

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Richard L. Johnson
Sep 12, 2025
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“The world-city means cosmopolitanism instead of home.” — Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West

Every republic breaks on this question: home or horizon. Rome fell when its citizens ceased to be rooted; America risks the same fracture as its elites belong everywhere and its people belong only to their towns. The division between cosmopolitan and provin…

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