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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tea Party, Glenn Beck Wrong on Woodrow Wilson's Progressivism The broader mistake of the Beck-Goldberg denunciation of progressivism is that it sees the movement as innately left-wing. By Scott Galupo ...

Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, by Christopher Cox (Simon & Schuster, 640 pp., $30.99). In Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, Christopher Cox describes uber-progressive Woodrow Wilson as ...

"Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn," which will be released on Nov. 5, ...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, ...

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.

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 ...