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Dec. 20, 2025

Fareed Zakaria on U.S. Isolationism and Opposition to Immigration (The Washington Post, December 19, 2025)

Columnist Fareed Zakaria assesses the Trump administration's 2025 National Security Strategy and draws parallels between it and American opposition to immigration in the 1920s and American isolationism in the 1930s in his Washington Post column of D…

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Dec. 19, 2025

Upcoming Episodes — New Series Premiere!

Episode 201 (new series "Tea, Drugs, and Jesus" premieres December 24!): Ben Franklin got China wrong, and America still does today! Marshall again will lead our discussion in a new series, “Tea, Drugs, and Jesus,” looking…

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Dec. 7, 2025

Karen Tumulty on U.S. Nativism (The Washington Post, December 7, 2025)

Columnist Karen Tumulty compares U.S. nativism of the 1920s with that of today in her Washington Post column of December 7, 2025, discussing themes we also covered in our "America First" series. If you have a Washington Post subscription, you can re…

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Oct. 15, 2025

Episode 2 is Out!

The sequel to our debut episode is here! Episode 102: America First- Part 2 picks up where we left off and dives into the birth of the “America First” ideology, including its roots in post–World War I paranoia, the Red Scare, and t…

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Oct. 1, 2025

Photo Gallery for America First

Advertisement for a 1918 film about the 1915 sinking of RMS Lusitania.   Woodrow Wilson presidential campaign buttons. The aftermath of the 1920 Wall Street bomb explosion (colorized). President Warren G. Harding and his vice preside…

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Oct. 1, 2025

Debut Episode is Live!

We are proud to present the first episode of our podcast, The United States of Amnesia, now available on all major streaming services! A lot of work went into this episode, including researching and structuring, investing in supplies and equipment, …

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