Robert Kagan can’t seem to distinguish between “isolationism” and not wanting to fight everyone else’s wars for them: Britons in the 1930s did not want to “die for Danzig,” and Americans today don’t ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The term “isolationist” is much like the word “racist” in that it has become almost useless due to ...

In the Beltway foreign policy bubble, the word “leadership” is typically associated with flexing military muscle overseas or intervening into global problems head-first. “Resolve” is defined as ...

WASHINGTON — In a full-throated defense of President Donald Trump's foreign policy, former White House adviser Steve Bannon said Monday that Trump is neither an isolationist nor an Islamophobe and ...

They’re back! The isolationist poltergeists that forever haunt the Republican Party. Or so we’re told. In July, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) had a set-to over American ...

Every few years, like the Olympics or those foul 17-year cicadas that crawl from the ground, the whisper of isolationism returns to the American public discourse. Back in 1994 when the G.O.P. swept ...

John McCain is unhappy with the Republican presidential contenders. “There has always been an isolationist strain,” said McCain, in the GOP. He is right. There has. In the 1930s the GOP fervently ...

FOR many Americans, it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world out there, and getting worse. During the Salman Rushdie affair 17 years ago, angry Muslims were content merely to call for the death of the ...

Jonathan Monten collaborates with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on a biannual survey of foreign policy experts. Thomas Gift does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from ...

The term “isolationist” is much like the word “racist” in that it has become almost useless due to its overuse. For example, if the Left rightly considers Ku Klux Klan members racist—but also members ...

The failure of any Republican candidate to make the case for vigorous American leadership in the world during last week’s Republican presidential debate has sparked a debate in Washington: Is the ...