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...Unlike the Harvard students of the isolationist 1930s, the Class of '49 involved itself in politics on a world scale. Throughout the late 40s multiple liberal political groups appeared on campus...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class of 1949: From Barracks to Books | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Unlike the Harvard students of the isolationist 1930s, the Class of '49 involved itself in politics on a world scale. Throughout the late '40s multiple liberal political groups appeared on campus...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Harvard Crimson Class of 1949 | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Instead of rallying Republicans, the Balkan showdown has exposed how divided the party is over America's duties in the post-cold war world. After days of tap dancing, by late last week the Republicans had cleaved fairly cleanly between two camps: those in Pat Buchanan's populist, isolationist fortress who were arguing we should leave Europe to the Europeans, and those who, belatedly in some cases, fell in step behind Arizona Senator John McCain, the former prisoner of war in Vietnam, and called for NATO to fight on even harder to preserve the credibility of U.S. power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Big Test | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...American sphere of intellectual tradition. Martin Luther King drew lessons from Ghandi as well as Lincoln, yet this does not require that everyone study Indian history. Mukunda's misplaced emphasis on the unique and especially worthy moral truth of America's ideals contributes to the nationalistic and isolationist, "intellectual" climate in this country, lending credence to irresponsible foreign policy decisions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'American Ideal' Misinterpreted | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

...earnest questing, Lindbergh was capable of a shocking naivete and obtuseness--or, many thought, something worse. He had a sinister habit of thinking in terms of racial superiorities and inferiorities. During the late '30s, he led the isolationist "America First" forces that sought to keep the U.S. out of European war. Although he undertook an essentially patriotic mission to evaluate Nazi aviation for U.S. authorities, he seemed to make excuses for Hitler, even in the face of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 and other evidence of the Nazis' murderous intentions toward the Jews. In October 1938, a month before Kristallnacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Once Favored Son | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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