Princeton exhibit promises to show ‘all’ about Woodrow Wilson

Princeton exhibit promises to show ‘all’ about Woodrow Wilson

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Kristen Coke and Jameil Brown enrolled at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs at Princeton University not knowing much about the school's namesake aside from his oft-touted positive accomplishments, from the changes he made as the university's president to elevate the school's stature to his progressive record during his two terms as a U.S. president.

It wasn't until their junior year that they began to learn more about his record on race and his views toward African-Americans and women. Now seniors, both students were among the first to see a new exhibit Princeton is launching Monday that will more fully explore who Wilson was — openly and publicly acknowledging his bigotry alongside the progressivism for which he is so revered.

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Economic liberty

Tina McCormick

April 1, 2016

Our theme this month is economic liberty. As an immigrant to this country, I have always viewed the identity of my adopted country as one rooted in human freedom. But I understand, too, that freedom can never be taken for granted. Indeed, each generation must rise to the challenge of protecting the precious and fragile concept of liberty over time. For, as Milton Friedman wrote, "the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery." At the NewBostonPost, we regard "economic liberty" as essential to political freedom, and thus total freedom.

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