The Great Cancellation of Woodrow Wilson

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

If Jonah had it his way, “The Fighting Uruk-hai” would be playing softly in the background of this entire episode, but he’s lost his privileges. If that doesn’t give you an idea of what this Remnant episode entails, shame on you—but we’ll give you a few hints anyway. Jonah is joined by Christopher Cox, former congressman and SEC chair, to discuss his new book, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn. Christopher has taken a new approach to his biography of Jonah’s arch nemeses, focusing on the women’s suffrage movement and Wilson’s views on race. Jonah and Christopher discuss the historically hagiographic treatment of Wilson, the highly un-woke construction of American progressivism, the relationship between the women’s suffrage movement and Jim Crow laws, and Jonah’s litany of grievances with the un-distinguished man of the hour. Show Notes: —Pre-order Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn —The accompanying picture book —Ichabod by John Greenleaf Whittier —The Myth of Left and Right byVerlan and Hyrum Lewis The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including Jonah’s G-File newsletter, weekly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, that is a
0:02.0	ao!
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0:06.0	Oh! Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?
0:17.0	Can I please have your attention?
0:19.0	Can you digger? Go Jigga! Hey everybody, it's me Jonah. This is the Remnant podcast. Don't worry. This is not a scary announcement or anything like that. We just, at the request
0:36.0	of Adam, the producer, we figured we should just do this a little differently. Today's episode is
0:40.9	about Woodrow Wilson. Lots of listeners have a Pavlovian expectation to hear a certain sound of orkyan quality from Middle Earth every time Wilson's name is spoken on this
0:56.5	podcast. We cannot do that on a podcast about Woodrow Wilson. It would throw everybody off. It would make the
1:04.9	podcast three hours long. So let's just get this out of the way. All right
1:10.4	ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna do it once and we're gonna do it right. Woodrow. All right,
1:13.7	we're going to do it once and we're going to do it right.
1:13.8	Woodrow Wilson.
1:17.8	I'm extremely excited about today's episode. I know I say that quite often, but it's it's actually always sincere and it's especially so this time.
1:29.0	A friend of the podcast, Chris Starwalt told me months ago that Christopher Cox, former Republican Congressman, former Chairman
1:37.0	of the SEC, currently a senior scholar in residence at the University of California, chair of the Road Scholarship, this or that. and
1:43.4	residents at the University of California, chair of the road scholarship this or that and all the
1:45.3	usual incommions and in in in in in in academic
1:50.7	feathers in his cap was writing a biography of Woodrow Wilson.
1:54.7	Long-time listeners, even short-time listeners know my views on Woodrow Wilson.
1:58.6	And so we've had this in the hot, we've been planning this for a while.
2:01.4	We are recording this in the home stretch of the
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