At last, Woodrow Wilson’s reputation gets the dismantling it richly deserves. A new biography destroys the 28th president’s place in the progressive pantheon.

Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Bogeyman. Wilson at Princeston, 1902 (Library of Congress) Share Comments Listen. By John Fund. About John Fund; Follow John Fund on X; November 20, 2015 9:00 AM.

To Woodrow Wilson and the intellectuals of the Progressive Era, progressivism represented a complete rejection of classical liberal thought – embedded in the Declaration of Independence and in ...

Public housing, Medicare, occupational safety, mass transportation . . . the list goes on and on. And they’re all legacies of the Progressive doctrines espoused by Woodrow Wilson, who understood that ...

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Jonah Goldberg graciously, if forcefully, responds to my musings on the legacy of Woodrow Wilson. Rather than repeat the points I made in an earlier follow-up—short version: I don’t deny that ...

The real ascent to political power of the progressives in this country began with the election of Woodrow Wilson in 1912; his second term ended a little more than a century ago.

Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, by Christopher Cox (Simon & Schuster, 640 pp., $30.99). In Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, Christopher Cox describes uber-progressive Woodrow Wilson as ...

"Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn," which will be released on Nov. 5, ... The roots of this nation’s Progressive Movement were racist, repressive, ...

Democrats redefined freedom more than a century ago (“Defining ‘Freedom’ Down at the DNC,” Review & Outlook, Aug. 23). President Woodrow Wilson, a progressive, likened citizens to ...

Will next year’s elections resemble Wilson’s debut in the 1910 midterm election year? Time will tell. Meanwhile, one thing is certain: Somewhere, the original progressive tariff slayer is smiling.