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(Originally published Aug., 2020)

Here it is, the giant deep dive overview episode of Woodrow Wilson’s decades of academic output! (Remember, I dive down these nightmarish rabbit-holes so you don’t have to!) Here CJ dissects Woodrow Wilson’s beliefs in painstaking detail, using the mountain of  of essays, articles, books, speeches & lectures produced by the man over the course of his nearly three-decade-long career as an intellectual.

Join CJ as he discusses:

• Wilson’s overall ideology in regard to history and politics
• Wilson’s particular notion of ‘progress,’ and his main intellectual influences in this regard
• Wilson’s views on the state in general
• Wilson’s views on democracy
• Wilson’s views on American history and politics, including his views on the Constitution, the presidency, and more
• Wilson’s views on socialism

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(Originally published Feb., 2020)

In this fourth installment in the epic DHP Villains Woodrow Wilson series, we’re detail-stripping what CJ considers to be perhaps the single most important piece of writing in Woodrow Wilson’s career, the essay “The Study of Administration,” which was published in the July 1887 issue of Political Science Quarterly, when Wilson was only 30 years old and just 2 years into his professional academic career. Wilson never significantly deviated from the ideas laid down in this essay over the remainder of his academic career; he also did quite a lot of implement them as President of the United States, and one can see the influence of these ideas on the growth & development of the US government’s administrative apparatus ever since. (Though the real-world results have been far from the ideal of benevolence, efficiency, and transparency that Wilson described!)

Join CJ as he takes this essay apart with critical analysis, and, near the end, shares the insights of Alexis de Tocqueville who, writing approximately 50 years before Wilson wrote “The Study of Administration,” identified and warned about just the sort of mixture of democracy and bureaucratic despotism that men like Wilson would eventually advocate & usher in.

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(Originally published Dec., 2019)

In this third instalment in the DHP coverage of Woodrow Wilson, we focus on Wilson’s years as President of Princeton University, 1902-1910.

Join CJ as he discusses:

• The changes and reforms Wilson implemented at Princeton, and others he tried (but failed) to implement
• His increasingly contentious relationship with some of the trustees, alumni, and administrators, particularly regarding his Quad Plan and the location of the Graduate School
• A possible affair with Mrs. Mary Allen Peck

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(Originally published Sept. 2019)

Part 2 of CJ’s deep dive into the life & career of Woodrow Wilson covers most of Wilson’s career in academia, stopping just as he’s about to become president of Princeton University.

Join CJ as he discusses:

• Woodrow Wilson’s time as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University
• Woodrow Wilson’s time as a college professor, starting at Bryn Mawr and continuing at Weselyan and Princeton

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(First published Aug., 2019)

Here it is, the first installment in CJ’s DHP Villains hit-piece on The Worst President (So Far!) in US History, Woodrow Wilson. (And that’s no small matter considering how badly CJ thinks of most American presidents!)

In this first installment, we’re covering Wilson’s early life & education, stopping just before his entry into the Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins University in the fall of 1883.

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