How I rediscovered the virtue of citizenship on a remote Canadian island

How I rediscovered the virtue of citizenship on a remote Canadian island

Irish political scientist Benedict Anderson defined a nation as an imagined political community — “imagined, because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them, or even hear them.”As a young man, I used to read those words and feel he was right. After all, nations are merely physical landscapes on Earth, each with a finite and demarcated boundary.Years of working in kitchens had made me immune…