What if 'America First' Appears to Work? With Tom Wright

Dec 4, 2025
47 mins

Episode Description

Tom Wright joins to talk about his recent article, “What if 'America First' Appears to Work?" about the Trump administration’s “might makes right” approach to foreign policy, and whether this strategy is more politically viable than perhaps it should be, at least in the short term. Tom is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former senior director of strategic planning at the NSC under the Biden Administration.

Thomas Wright, "What If ‘America First’ Appears to Work?”, The Atlantic


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