All Posts Tagged With: "isolationism"
Theodore Roosevelt, Big-Government Man
Theodore Roosevelt has been known as “the Good Roosevelt,” “the Republican Roosevelt,” and “the conservative Roosevelt,” as distinguished from his fifth cousin Franklin, who’s credited with ushering in modern American big government. Yet promoters of big government have long recognized TR as one of their own. Biographer Frank Freidel wrote that “While at Groton [Franklin [...]
24Feb2010 | Jim Powell | 7 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – May 2003
The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power by Max Boot Basic Books • 2002 • 448 pages • $30.00 hardcover; $16.00 paperback Reviewed by Ivan Eland Max Boot provides a thorough and relatively candid history of the U.S. government’s involvement in small wars. The section of the book on [...]
1May2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
Thomas Friedman has written a very surprising book. Surprising not in what he has written, but in that Thomas Friedman wrote it. Friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times, and is probably known to readers of Ideas on Liberty as a moderately “liberal” establishment journalist. He is certainly not known as [...]
1Aug2000 | Robert A. Lawson | 0 comments | ContinuedMere Isolationism: The Foreign Policy of the Old Right
One of the “lost causes” to which libertarians are attached—and one of the most important—is that of the “isolationist” Old Right. As used by the late Murray Rothbard, among others, the term “Old Right” refers to a loose coalition opposed to the New Deal in both its domestic and foreign aspects. While not following a [...]
1Feb2000 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 0 comments | ContinuedIsolationism
Frank Chodorov (1887-1966) was editor of The Freeman in 1954 and 1955. This is excerpted from his autobiography Out of Step (Devin-Adair, 1962). Reprinted with permission. Isolationism has been turned (by our politicians, our bureaucracy and its henchmen, the professorial idealists) into a bad word. And yet, isolationism is inherent in the human makeup. It [...]
1Jul1999 | Frank Chodorov | 2 comments | ContinuedBook Review: A History of the Monroe Doctrine by Dexter Perkins and Americas Rise to World Power, 1898-1954 by Foster Rhea Dulles
Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 469 pp. $5.00. (The New American Nation Series) New York: Harper and Brothers. 314 pp. $5.00. The basic international and diplomatic policy of the United States—which kept us out of disastrous foreign wars and other expensive entanglements abroad for over a hundred years—is usually assumed to date from Washington’s Farewell [...]
1May1956 | Harry Elmer Barnes | 0 comments | Continued-
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