America First—The Old Right and the Fight Against Intervention

Empire of Liberty: America's Foreign Entanglements from the Founders to the Forever Wars - Ep. 07

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnKvxp7s6Zs

This episode recovers the lost tradition of principled American non-interventionism that flourished between the world wars. We examine the intellectual foundations developed by thinkers like Albert Jay Nock and Garet Garrett, the political leadership of Senator Robert Taft, and the mass movement of the America First Committee. We trace how this tradition was suppressed after Pearl Harbor and systematically discredited by historians who wrote interventionism into consensus—and we evaluate which of the Old Right's predictions about war's consequences for the American republic came true.