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!
Episode 211 "Another Day, Another Country, Another Misunderstanding" (coming May 13!): Marshall, Blake, and Mike wrap up the "Tea, Drugs, and Jesus" series with a review of how the United States misunderstood China in various ways at various ti…
Center for the Study of Intelligence article on the Sino-Soviet split
Marshall recommends an article produced by the Center for the Study of Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency about America's detection and analysis of the Sino-Soviet split, which we discuss in Episode 210. The article is "Calling the Sino…
