(Originally published July, 2021)

For this 8th installment in the Wilson series, we will focus on the beginning of Wilson’s presidency, including his Cabinet selections, inauguration, and early successes in pushing his agenda through Congress in his first year in office, especially in regard to the passage of the 1913 Revenue Act and the Federal Reserve Act.

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(Originally published Feb., 2021)

Here’s the seventh installment in the DHP’s ongoing coverage of the life & career of Woodrow Wilson.

Join CJ as he discusses the 1912 election, which resulted in Woodrow Wilson’s election to the presidency.

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(Originally published Oct., 2020)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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In this dozenth episode in the Wilson series, join CJ as he discusses the ways in which the Wilson administration & Corporate America (especially the House of Morgan) was decidedly un-neutral in regard to the First World War over the course of 1915.

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What if I told you that we can connect Woodrow Wilson to the Nazis in a single degree of separation?

No, this is not the zillionth illustration of Godwin's Law that you've seen this week; it is simply little-known historical fact.

In this dose of Dangerous History, we'll talk about the little-known eugenicist psychiatrist who drafted the eugenics sterilization bill that Woodrow Wilson signed into law in 1911 (during his brief tenure as Governor of New Jersey), and who later collaborated with the Nazis who ran the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp three decades later.

Join CJ as he discusses the life and career of Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, and the historical context in which they occurred.

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