Wilson’s Fourteen Points

The peace after World War I was supposed to close the book on global conflict. Instead, it opened a fight that still shapes U.S. foreign policy today: do we try to organize the world to prevent war, or do we protect our independence by refusing binding commitments abroad? We sit down with Dr. Sean Beienburg to unpack Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the political reality behind them. We walk through the pressures that dragged the United States into World War I, then map Wilson’s attempt ...