Tag Archive for American Empire

Two Cheers for Isolationism

(A slightly shorter version of this essay was published in The Nation, November 17, 2023.) American Progressives are at a foreign policy dead-end. Their historic concern for global human rights, democracy and peace has become an ideological cover for naked…

Destructive Myths

Nations, like the individuals who make them up, define themselves largely through their memories. And, as countless psycho- logical studies have shown, our memories are malleable, as often as not shaped to fit the identities we have already chosen. Elizabeth…

A Short History of American Empire

Review of The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the birth of American Empire, by Stephen Kinzer   Toward the end of this history of the domestic conflict over U.S. overseas expansion at the close of the nineteenth century, Stephen…