Was America Destined to be an Empire? While Murray Rothbard is correct in Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy that “the great turning point of American foreign policy came in the early 1890s, during the second Cleveland administration,” this needs qualification; for though, as Rothbard continues, “it was then that the U.S. turned sharply … Continue reading In Search of a New Abroad: Contextualizing Developments in U.S. Foreign Policy in the Late 19th Century