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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 ...

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.

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 ...

Have Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era theorists so thoroughly prevailed that surrender is the only option? While that’s largely a subject for another day, it’s true that, ...

Roosevelt and Wilson had plenty of differences, but in the long view of history their affinities loom large. For Roosevelt, presidential activism meant cracking down on the railroads, regulating ...

"Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn," which will be released on Nov. 5, ...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

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Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, by Christopher Cox (Simon & Schuster, 640 pp., $30.99). In Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, Christopher Cox describes uber-progressive Woodrow Wilson as ...

The rehabilitation of those presidents’ reputations have been acts of justice, as is Christopher Cox’s destruction of Woodrow Wilson’s place in progressivism’s pantheon. In “Woodrow ...

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 ...