To rise from professor to university president to governor to president of the U.S., Woodrow Wilson practiced ten core principles of leadership: Go big. Big problems require big solutions. The problems of the twentieth century were unprecedented—mass war, destructive new technologies of war, ethnic hatreds, colonialism, a global battle for spoils. Nibbling around the edges … Read more Woodrow Wilson’s Principles of Leadership
This originally appeared in The Big Think on September 25, 2019. One hundred years ago, at the end of a 10,000-mile speaking tour to promote the League of Nations, President Woodrow Wilson delivered an emotional appeal that left his audience weeping. Wilson’s address in Pueblo, Colorado, would be the last speech of his voluble political … Read more How Did a 100-year-old Vision of Global Politics Shape our Future?
This piece originally appeared in The Daily Beast on September 22, 2019. A century apart, two American presidents faced a world spinning out of control. One was a builder and the other a disrupter. But they have more in common than might be expected. In most ways, Woodrow Wilson and Donald Trump could not be … Read more He Envisioned the World That Trump Is Demolishing
Charles Euchner, the author of Losing the Peace, is the author of books on civil rights, baseball, urban policy, the politics of sports stadiums, political and social movements, and writing. Euchner (pronounced IKE-ner) teaches writing at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. He previously taught writing at Yale University and political science … Read more About the Author