R: Export American Values

Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. in the Berkeley Mendenhall Room

Thomas Sully, The Passage of the Delaware, 1819, oil on canvas, 372.1 × 525.7 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston.

There are some that suggest that The United States should use America's position in the world economy, as well as the great military might it possesses, in order to promote American Values abroad in order to raise the standard of living and expand human rights for all people.

Skeptics of these policies bring up the lack of agreement about what "American Values" are and suggest that it's dangerously arrogant to assume that we know better than anyone what's best for the world.