Ep. 0207: DHP Villains: Woodrow Wilson, Part 5
The Dangerous History Podcast
CJ
4.6 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 270 minutes
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Summary
(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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| 0:00.0 | What we have to undertake is to systematize the foundations of the house, |
| 0:06.3 | then to thread all the old parts of the structure with the steel, |
| 0:11.4 | which will be laced together in modern fashion, |
| 0:14.2 | accommodated to all the modern knowledge of the structural strength and elasticity, |
| 0:19.6 | and then slowly change the partitions, relay the walls, |
| 0:26.1 | letting the light through the new apertures, improve the ventilation. Until finally, a generation |
| 0:34.1 | or two from now, the scaffolding will be taken away, and there will be the family |
| 0:39.4 | in a great building, whose noble architecture will at last be disclosed, where men can live as a |
| 0:45.3 | single community, cooperative, as in a perfected, coordinated beehive. |
| 0:51.7 | Not afraid of any storm of nature. |
| 0:58.3 | Not afraid of any artificial storm, any imitation of thunder and lightning, knowing that the foundation go down to the bedrock of principle, |
| 1:04.2 | and knowing that whenever they please, they can change that plan again, and accommodate it as |
| 1:09.8 | they please to the altering necessities of their lives. |
| 1:14.4 | Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, Published 1913, from Chapter 2, What is Progress? |
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