Tag Archive for Isolationism

Trump: No Isolationist

Denis MacShane is correct to criticize the U.S. pullout of UNESCO as unproductive (The Globalist, October 25, 2017). But to label Trump an “isolationist” who is taking the United States back to the 1920s is a misdiagnosis. Given Trump’s manic instability…

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…