Whereas globalism is static—after all, it is a credo—globalization is evolving. Recognizably, trade among nations ebbs and flows.

It does not mean the end of globalism. It means we have to figure out an equitable globalization. It’s not an end point. But there is fear, anxiety and loss as well as gain.

The philosophy of national globalism—a combination of nationalism, mercantilist economics, and neocolonial exploitation—is what unites the flags of convenience and the billionaires hoarding ...

Globalism is more firmly entrenched here than anywhere else, and American institutions, with their worldwide reach, are the most active in projecting this ideology worldwide.

However, the laissez-faire brand of globalization, relentlessly promoted since about 1990 by U.S. banks and corporations at the expense of American workers, is now caput.

A conversation with Tara Zahra about the early-20th-century origins of globalism, how debates over a globalized world have morphed across a century, and her new book, Against the World.

It does not mean the end of globalism. It means we have to figure out an equitable globalization. It’s not an end point. But there is fear, anxiety and loss as well as gain.