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 December 19, 2025. If you have access to The Washington Post's content, you can read his column here.
We discuss these themes in our "America First" series. We discuss American anti-immigration policies in the 1920s in Episode 102 and isolationism in the 1930s in Episode 105 and Episode 106.
Upcoming Episodes!
New Series: "The American System" -- Episode 401 "Internal Improvements" (coming August 19!): In the 1820s, Henry Clay proposed an activist role for the United States government in envisioning, funding, and overseeing improvements in America's infra…
Image Gallery (Part Two) for "A Christian Nation?" (Episodes 305–306)
This gallery of photos, maps, and other images add to our "A Christian Nation?" audio series about whether the United States was founded as a Christian nation. We expand the gallery as the series continues – and sometimes after it has concluded – an…
