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  • The Great War and Congressional “Isolationism”

    I thought I’d take a detour from writing chapter one to craft a quick blog post on something which has been wracking my brain, how did the American experience in World War I impact “isolationism” on the eve of World War II? Of course, historians of noninterventionism have covered this topic, and I’ve touched on it …

  • New Op-Ed: “Brown Scare, Red Scare, Fake Scare, Who’s Scared?”

    A special thanks to the Libertarian Institute for publishing my latest, “Brown Scare, Red Scare, Fake Scare, Who’s Scared?” It is a brief history of the “scare cycle,” the reciprocal political purges between the Left and the Right. It argues that these scares, built upon exaggerated claims of nefarious foreign influence, have narrowed the Overton …

  • New Op-Ed: Power Elite Analysis: Lessons from the ‘Conspiracist’ Right and New Left Academics

    Special thanks to the Libertarian Institute for publishing my latest piece, ‘Power Elite Analysis: Lessons from the ‘Conspiracist’ Right and New Left Academics.’ It covers some of the New Left – Old Right ideological cross-pollination of the late 1960s and argues the example set by one New Left scholar, G. William Domhoff, is one that …

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