“That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in [Louis] Brandeis, continues through the New Deal, but then it sort of peters out in the '60s because progressives in particular become more interested in extending equality to minorities, and women, and other excluded groups, and little more suspicious of these old white guys, often from the south, who were crusaders against monopolies.” LittlesRunningGuyWhiteDealsGroupsParticularSouthMinoritiesPeterAmerican HistoryStrainMonopolySuspiciousExcludedExtendingWilsonEgalitarianismNew DealWhite GuysLouis BrandeisApotheosisTomas Jefferson Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he largely enacted from the bench.” PoliticalVisionEconomyElectionBenchesDistinctiveWilsonPolitical EconomyLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in the 20th century in persuading Woodrow Wilson to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine.” AgeCenturyMovementDecided20th CenturyPalestineInfluentialHomelandWilsonZionistPersuadingLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“Louis Brandeis was not a racist like Woodrow Wilson.” RacistWilsonLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He advised them and advised the head of Howard University to create a good law school. And that inspired Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall in their path-breaking work on behalf of desegregation.” GovernmentSchoolLawSupportPathInspiredUniversityAfrican AmericanFederal GovernmentBehalfSegregationWilsonLaw SchoolHoustonCourteousHamiltonLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
