Woodrow Wilson’s Centenary Emerges as a Moment To Reflect on Global Government of Which He Dreamed

The search for universal government is looking frayed after the failures of the United Nations and the visions of Versailles.

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President Wilson, around 1916. Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

It is fitting, if not tragic, that the centenary of Woodrow Wilson’s death on February 3 should coincide with events that again illustrate the perils of his internationalist agenda. United Nations’ complicity in terror against Israel, threats of economic warfare by the European Union against member states — all point to the illogic of the so-called international order and the virtues of state sovereignty in international affairs.

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