Still, commentators worried about what it meant to retreat so quickly from the world, with no plan. But there would always be boats against the current, as Fitzgerald put it; that is the nature of American politics. The excesses of one side inevitably lead to the rise of the other, and back again, with tidal regularity. It has been a long time since the winter of 1920, but the old fault lines are still visible, not only in the United States but around the world. Should the United States try to solve these and all of the other vexing problems out there?

Source: New York Times February 08, 2020 15:56 UTC