american exceptionalism Archives

The United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland / credit: Mathias P.R. Reding on Unsplash

The U.S. Makes a Mockery of Treaties and International Law

K.J. Noh January 11, 2022 K.J. Noh

The United States claims it is operating under a “rules-based order”—but the term is not the same international law recognized by the rest of the world. Rather, it is camouflage behind which American exceptionalism flourishes, writes K.J. Noh for Globetrotter.

“Cruelties of slavery" / source: The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1835-05.

The Myth of American Exceptionalism: From the Beginning

Stephen Joseph Scott September 20, 2021 Stephen Joseph Scott

Within U.S. social movements, American Exceptionalism increasingly has been used to explain the ideology that guides U.S. interventions around the world and against domestic colonized populations, such as African and Indigenous peoples. This essay seeks to examine the roots of this ideological framework.