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April 21, 2015
Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George, and Georges Clémenceau
They were themselves not causes but symptoms of a disease, which for a word we might call post-modernism. President Wilson did the most permanent damage. He was the Barack Obama of that historical moment, enjoying an immense charismatic popularity in Europe. A moral and intellectual simpleton, he had handy to his lips a short list of glib progressive nostrums that appealed to great masses of the war weary. The valour deficit : Essays in Idleness
Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 21, 2015 9:29 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.