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On Loyalty: The uses and abuses of a complicated virtue.
From: National Review
Date: 19990405
Author:Scruton, Roger
An examination of loyalty and friendship is presented. In E.M. Forster's time the group of hominterns valued friendship over loyalty to country. British journalist Christopher Hitchens balked against his friendship with Sidney Blumenthal out of loyalty to another country. In Stalin's Russia the first victims were those who opposed the Nazis. The idea was to destroy any type of loyalty in favor of government through fear. Many revolutionary movements have removed their strongest supporters. Modern man's conception of loyalty has changed in the same way as has his conception of the idea of ...
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