THE AMERICA ONE NEWS
Aug 7, 2025  |  
0
 | Remer,MN
Sponsor:  QWIKET 
Sponsor:  QWIKET 
Sponsor:  QWIKET: Elevate your fantasy game! Interactive Sports Knowledge.
Sponsor:  QWIKET: Elevate your fantasy game! Interactive Sports Knowledge and Reasoning Support for Fantasy Sports and Betting Enthusiasts.
back  
topic
Peter Robinson


NextImg:The Corner: The Light Withdrawn: Christopher Cox on How Woodrow Wilson Shaped — and Undermined — American Democracy

Was Woodrow Wilson a visionary statesman — or a reactionary bigot? Peter Robinson sits down with historian and former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox to discuss his latest book, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, a meticulously researched biography of the 28th president of the United States.

Together, they explore Wilson’s complicated legacy: his towering achievements as a reformer and wartime leader and his deeply troubling record on race, gender, and civil rights. From Wilson’s opposition to women’s suffrage and his resegregation of the federal government to his embrace of the film The Birth of a Nation, Cox reveals how the president’s Southern upbringing and elitist worldview shaped both his presidency and progressivism itself.

This conversation offers a sobering reappraisal of one of America’s most consequential and controversial leaders, and asks what it means to judge historical figures by the standards of both their time and ours.

Recorded on March 27, 2025.