Richard Drake is Lucile Speer Research Chair in politics and history at the University of Montana. He is writing an intellectual biography of the radical historian William Appleman Williams.
Critical historians like William Appleman Williams played a key role in highlighting the US’s imperial record in Latin America. Now Donald Trump has cut out the middleman, bluntly stating the US’s imperialist agenda.
The US sanctions against Francesca Albanese are testament to her courage speaking up for the Palestinians. If international law lies buried underneath the rubble of Gaza, truth-tellers like Albanese have implacably defended basic universalist principles.