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

How can one stop the dangerous perpetuation of an unrealistic conception of America’s place in the world?
America’s Dark Shadows: The Charleston Massacre

White supremacist Dylann Roof extends a national tradition of ritual slaying.
The End of American Exceptionalism?

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

Can Americans exist without the ideology of exceptionalism that has carried them for over two centuries?
American Power: When Atlas Shrugs

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

How it hurts a nation that cannot distinguish between strength and power.
Hillary Clinton and the Art of Defending American Power Linguistically

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?
American Exceptionalism and the Politics of Foreign Policy
Has the United States sacrificed its founding and traditional values in its conduct of foreign policy?
How We Lost American Exceptionalism
How did Democrats and Republicans both become the parties of war and the purveyors of an interventionist foreign policy?