As he tries to show the limits of certain anti-imperialist arguments even as he signals his opposition to American empire, he remains shackled to the flawed moralism that legitimates it.

The anti-imperialist movement had been growing since the beginning of the Spanish-American War. In addition to Anti-Imperialist League members Edward Atkinson and Carl Shurtz, the movement ...

But since winning a second term, the president-elect has been embracing a new imperialist agenda, threatening to seize the Panama Canal and Greenland — perhaps by military force — and saying ...