That word MacLeish chose, global, was new. There are scattered instances of its use to refer to the world starting in the nineteenth century, but not many before the 1940s. It took the war to make it popular. With it came entirely new words: globalist, globalism, and the pejorative globaloney, coined by the writer Clare Boothe Luce in reference to the ideas of Vice President Henry Wallace. If the last war was a world war, this one was, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt put it in September 1942, “a global war.” That was the first time a sitting president had publicly uttered the word global, though
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