It is altogether fitting that the US attack on a Syrian airport, the dropping of a MOAB on defenseless Afghanistan, and the potential outbreak of nuclear war with North Korea have all come in the very month one hundred years earlier that an American president led the nation on its road to empire. President Trump's … Continue reading On the Commemoration of World War I: From Woodrow Wilson to Donald Trump
Review: Charles A. Beard, American Foreign Policy in the Making, 1932-1940: A Study in Responsibilities. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1946. Introduction Last year, 2016, marked the 70th anniversary of the publication of Charles Beard's masterful study of United States foreign policy prior to the nation's disastrous entrance into the Second World War, American … Continue reading Charles A. Beard, “American Foreign Policy in the Making, 1932-1940″*
Although history does not exactly repeat itself, it does provide parallels and sometimes quite ominous ones. Such is the case with the current U.S. Presidential election and the one which occurred one hundred years earlier. The dominating question which hung over the 1916 campaign was whether the country would remain neutral in regard to the … Continue reading The Donald Versus Killary: War or Peace?
Antonius Aquinas 