Lessons from the Tragedy of Woodrow Wilson’s War

  Today is an historical marker of immense importance in American history: it is the centenary of American entry into the Great War, later known as the First World War. One hundred years ago today the United States declared war on Germany following strong majority votes in both Houses of Congress and the impassioned speech of President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session on April 2, wherein he asserted that America must fight in the European war “to make the world safe for democracy.” A century later, the ghosts of hallowed American war-dead at Belleau Wood, the Second Battle of the...

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John L. Chapman and Karl-Henrik Smith

John L. Chapman is an economist and merchant banker with Hill & Cutler Co. in Washington, D.C. Karl-Henrik Smith Smith is a foreign policy analyst and graduate student in international business and politics at Copenhagen Business School.


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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...

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