Building on the constitutional transformation traced in From General Welfare to the Great Society and the emergency governance examined in The New Leviathan, Empire of Liberty turns to American foreign policy — and asks how choices made abroad have shaped liberty at home.

This twenty-chapter series argues that American foreign policy across two centuries reveals a consistent pattern. The founders' warnings against entangling alliances were not isolationist sentiment but accumulated wisdom about what empire does to a republic. The series traces how that wisdom was abandoned, who benefited from abandoning it, and what the abandonment has cost.

Each chapter pairs a written article with two podcast episodes — a Saturday historical examination and a Tuesday contemporary application — connecting founders' warnings to current events. Articles are listed below, followed by the podcast archive. The newest content appears first.