Introduction

The new books and ideas podcast from american purpose. Each week i'll be talking to authors of new books, and with my colleagues at America's Bookstack. To day, our first episode, georgetown professor charles a cutchen. He served on the national security council staff in the balmer and clinton administrations. Is the author of the new book, isolationism,. A history of American efforts to shield itself from the world. And as a strategic doctrine, i think one can sum it up by the phrase, stay out of other people's troubles and they'll stay out of yours.