Anti-Imperialism, Left and Right

A foreign policy horseshoe, in two essays and one podcast

In April of this year, Compact published The Poverty of Anti-Imperialism by Djene Rhys Bajalan. I read the essay with much interest and much agreement—above all, agreement on Bajalan’s most important practical conclusion, that “the core of [our] opposition to American empire” ought to be based on resisting “the military-industrial complex’s chokehold ov…