The Globalist

Reflections on gargantuan levels of military spending, pseudo “efficiency”-minded corporate outsourcing and an ill-fated obsession with American exceptionalism.

How can one stop the dangerous perpetuation of an unrealistic conception of America’s place in the world?

White supremacist Dylann Roof extends a national tradition of ritual slaying.

America, on the road to become like Europe’s social democracies, is losing its exceptionalism.

Can Americans exist without the ideology of exceptionalism that has carried them for over two centuries?

To bear less responsibility in the 21st century will do the United States good, even it it means less American power.

How it hurts a nation that cannot distinguish between strength and power.

Why are even America’s self-acclaimed liberal internationalists still so keen on being top dog? Will John Kerry follow in Hillary Clinton’s footsteps on this issue?

Has the United States sacrificed its founding and traditional values in its conduct of foreign policy?

How did Democrats and Republicans both become the parties of war and the purveyors of an interventionist foreign policy?