Today on Uncommon Knowledge, Bruce Thornton, author of Decline and Fall: Europe’s Slow-Motion Suicide, discusses the decline of the nation-state and the rise of that monstrous leviathan, the European Union.

Whereas many people, including yours truly, despise the European Union instinctively, the good Dr. Thornton is able to put his loathing into words.

“[The European Union runs] counter to reality—that’s my biggest objection. It’s totalizing, if not totalitarian, because it will suck in more and more regulatory power. Why? Because the more variety you have—and in Europe, there’s a lot of variety, from languages right down to the kinds of food people eat—the more power you need to have to smooth differences in variety out.

“So the European Union works against particularity, against the local, and that necessarily will work against freedom.”

Could Derb have put it better himself? And that’s just for starters. Here’s more.