Patterson’s most recent column offers an example. Appearing last week ... for the origins of the war of 1939-1945, American “isolationism” is as familiar as the sweet-and-sour pork featured ...

I suppose it’s understandable that so many Europeans are taken aback by American isolationism, but other than the swiftness of its return, we really shouldn’t be. It’s merely a return to ...

For example, some commentators argue ... marking the definitive end of traditional isolationism. With the war’s conclusion, ...

The term “isolationism” came into common usage in the United States in the 1930s—and it already had distinctly negative connotations. Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, who in the late nineteenth ...