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Adam Hochschild on Our Obligation to the Common Good pt. 2

The Daily Stoic

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Wilson's Disappointment

In many ways he was the last president of the Progressive Era when it came to graduated income tax, child labor laws and regulating business. He also presided over the greatest assault on civil liberties in 20th century American history - under Wilson's watch. His great idealistic project was the League of Nations where countries would gather around a table and talk out their differences instead of going to war.

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