Uncommon Knowledge | 1 August 2025 | 0h 55m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Christopher Cox about his book Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn. Explores Wilson’s complicated legacy: his towering achievements as a reformer and wartime leader and his deeply troubling record on race, gender, and civil rights. Discusses his opposition to women’s suffrage, his resegregation of the federal government, and his embrace of the film “The Birth of a Nation,” revealing how Wilson’s Southern upbringing and elitist worldview shaped both his presidency and progressivism itself.