Wilsonianism

Essays & arguments

The record before
the rhetoric.

Source-grounded writing on democratic strength, American alliances, and the difference between leadership and performance.

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Nguyen Ai Quoc, later known as Ho Chi Minh, at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference
August 30, 2026

When America Abandoned Self-Determination

How America confused control with strength—and why returning to self-determination is now a strategic necessity.

The Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress
August 30, 2026

Public Institutions Are Not Socialism

A library is not a command economy. Public goods, democratic accountability, and a mixed-market economy can—and must—coexist.

Allied leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Casablanca Conference in 1943
August 29, 2026

They Didn’t “Give Us” the World Wars

World wars were launched by aggressors abroad. Wilson and Roosevelt led America into coalitions that helped defeat them. Chronology matters.