Manifest destiny quickly became a popular phrase that described and celebrated the American “right” to expansion—America’s fate and fortune, or destiny, to expand was seen as evident and obvious, or manifest. Manifest destiny would be used to justify and champion events like the Mexican-...
This is just a remarkable posture. Not because it’s good trolling, but because it reaches way back into the rootstock of American motivation. This idea –“Manifest Destiny” – feels like a theme uniting everything this administration wants to do both domestically and abroad. But it could a...
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That would plunge America’s allies into deep recession, perhaps a prolonged depression. The harsh truth, though, is that the dominant elites in Washington assess that concern as subordinate to its grand plan for gravely weakening the Sino-Russian bloc. To put it bluntly, they feel that the U...
whose name can be glossed as "eater of filth". Fecal matter was not only identified with pollution and filth. It is ironic thatgold, so commonly considered as incorruptible and pure in western thought, was described as excrement. Thus the Nahuatl term for gold wasteocuitlatl, or "godly ex...
Manifest Destiny, the supposed inevitability of the continued territorial expansion of the boundaries of the United States westward to the Pacific and beyond. Before the American Civil War, Manifest Destiny was used to validate continental acquisitions i
both of which occasionally are described as divinely inspired. To follow these documents in the manner prescribed by the Founding Fathers is therefore posited by many believers in American exceptionalism as the key to national success. Moreover, that approach is held to be universally applicable, ...