Showing posts with label Wilson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wilson. Show all posts
Monday, September 12, 2022

"America First"

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 Sarah Churchwell at WP: Popular memory, as captured by Wikipedia, currently credits Woodrow Wilson with coining the phrase “ America Firs...
Monday, February 22, 2021

Civic Nationalism v. Ethno-Nationalism

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 Colin Woodard at Zocalo Public Square: [Historian George] Bancroft’s vision—laid out over four decades in his massive, 10-volume History of...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

Woodrow Wilson and the Pandemic

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The 1918 pandemic was even worse than COVID.  And it infected Woodrow Wilson when he was in Paris for WWI negotiations. Meilan Solly at ...
Saturday, October 3, 2020

Presidential Illness

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Jessica Pearce Rotondi at History.com : Woodrow Wilson nearly died of the 1918 flu pandemic during sensitive negotiations with world leade...
Monday, June 29, 2020

Princeton Cancels Wilson

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At WP, Princeton president Christopher L. Eisgruber tells why he changed his mind and now supports the decision to remove Woodrow Wilson ...
Saturday, May 9, 2020

Very, Very Early Campaign Spots

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From PBS: "The Oldway and the New" is a 1912 campaign film put out by the Democratic National Committee on behalf of candidate W...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

This Day in Woodrow Wilson's Racism

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From the Equal Justice Initiative: On April 11, 1913, recently inaugurated President Woodrow Wilson received Postmaster General Albert B...
Sunday, November 11, 2018

The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month

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Kelly Ann Holder at the Census: The “War to End All Wars” came to an end on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918. A yea...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Public Administration

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At The American Interest , Francis Fukuyama laments the decline of the study of public administration. This then brings us back to the cri...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Wilson v Madison

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Yuval Levin at NYT: Is Congress’s purpose to implement the agenda of the majority party most effectively, or is its purpose to compel and ...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

Trump v. Madison

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At The Washington Post , Aaron Blake reports on Trump 's view of our constitutional system : In an interview with Fox News airing Fri...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Woodrow Wilson, Bad President

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At The Federalist , David Harsanyi writes of Princeton protests against Woodrow Wilson: Like most progressives of his era, Wilson wasn’t me...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

"Unstinted Power" and Federal Spending

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A report from the Joint Economic Committee: A progressive philosophical shift in federal spending began under President Woodrow Wilson. T...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Madison, Wilson, Obama

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President Obama's popular vote margin in 2012 is similar to that of another reelected president, Woodrow Wilson in 1916. In 1908, Wood...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

A Critical View of State of the Union Speeches

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George Will deplores the practice of delivering the State of the Union as a speech instead of a written message: When the Founding ge...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

State of the Union: Historical Perspective

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Tonight, the president delivers the annual State of the Union address. At The American Presidency Project Gerhard Peters writes : A see...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Wilson on Political Parties

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As noted earlier, there is a good deal of commentary that the GOP is "leaderless." In 1885, a scholar named Woodrow Wilson said ...