Woodrow Wilson’s Puzzling Progressive Legacy

Source: Law & Liberty
by John O McGinnis

“No president has fallen from Olympus as far and as fast as Woodrow Wilson. Ranked approximately sixth in the 1990s and 2000s, he has slipped to about fifteenth today in polls by historians. Princeton University has stripped his name from its prestigious School of Public and International Affairs. Democratic politicians usually omit him from their pantheon of heroes. The decisive factor in Wilson’s dramatic fall is the contemporary liberal emphasis on race and cultural issues rather than economic ones. To many liberal historians — who dominate the field — Wilson’s grievous record on race eclipses his once-celebrated Progressive economics. Christopher Cox is no liberal, but a former Republican member of Congress and Chairman of the SEC. Nevertheless, his new book Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn may knock Wilson down a few more pegs.” (01/30/25)

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