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.