As Russia readies for a winter offensive in its war in Ukraine , communist China brews over Taiwan and buttresses Moscow for the anticipated realization of its new global order, and Iran and its proxies wage a war against Israel that risks escalation, much is made of America’s passivity on the world stage. Yet the problem might not be one of Washington’s passivity but of a leftist foreign policy gripped by the very deconstructivist, postcolonial dogma that afflicts our most critical institutions.

This ideology, which began to surface in the 1960s, is a curious amalgam of Jacques Derrida’s deconstructivism and Frantz Fanon’s postcolonialism — with some Marxism thrown in for good measure. Here, meaning is variable, truth unattainable, lived experience paramount, and violence a necessity for change. Wrong can be right, woman can be man, and foe can be friend. The aim, ultimately, is to dismantle Western thought and champion the ostensibly oppressed, as defined by the ideology itself.

JUDGE QUESTIONS IF AMTRAK TAKING UNION STATION IS CONSISTENT WITH CONGRESSIONAL INTENT

No doubt, President Joe Biden likely harbors little intent of undoing Western civilization. Yet, in foreign affairs, his administration has tended to proceed as if with an air of moral relativity and a curious fixation on equity. These have often undermined, rather than advanced, America’s foreign policy and security interests.

Consider but a handful of actions undertaken in the two months since Hamas attacked Israel. Iran, which facilitated the attack,........

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