America First

Episode 90: The Gospel According to Charles Lindbergh

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Charles Lindbergh was a celebrated aviator, the father of the baby abducted in the “crime of the century,” a Nazi sympathizer, and a believer in eugenics. He also carried a small New Testament with him as he entered the South...

“American Dream” and “America First”

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Over at Smithsonian.com, University of London humanities professor Sara Churchwell talks with Anna Diamond about the history of these two phrases. Churchwell is the author of the forthcoming Behold America: The Entangled History of “America First” and the “American Dream.” Here...

The “America First Exhibit” at the Holocaust Museum

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My forthcoming book Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump devotes several pages to Trump’s use of the phrase “America First.”  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum‘s exhibit “Americans and the Holocaust” was not yet open when I was writing these...

The Diplomacy of Narcissism

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This is what E.J. Dionne calls Donald Trump’s foreign policy of “America First.”  Here is a taste of his recent column at The Washington Post (via Real Clear Politics). The problem with “America First” is that it describes an attitude, not a...

Abraham Lincoln: Internationalist?

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An alternative title for this post might be “Abraham Lincoln’s Rural Enlightenment.” Over at “Just Security,” Lincoln biographer and former Bill Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal argues that the 16th POTUS would have probably rejected the idea of “America First.” Here...