The simple question congresswoman couldn't answer

View in browser Yesterday at a congressional hearing, Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) was asked by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent who the president was During World War I. After some hemming and hawing, she admitted: "I don't know." I watched the video myself and was shocked that she genuinely did not know the answer to that question. Even a guy as skeptical as ol' Woods thought, "Is it possible that members of Congress are actually more ignorant than I thought they were?" The mockery that Rep. Chu has been receiving over this is richly deserved, and I would not want to interfere with that at all. But then we look at Scott Bessent and realize: he was raising the example of Woodrow Wilson in order to portray the 28th president in a favorable light, and that's just never the right thing to do. His argument was: just as Donald Trump is thinking about the long term as he deals with Iran and temporarily higher prices as an unfortunate side effect, so too was Woodrow Wilson thinking about long-term security when he intervened in World War I. I'm trying to decide whether it's worse not knowing Woodrow Wilson was president during World War I, or thinking Wilson was a president who set a good example for others to cite in the future. I've had plenty to say over the years about Woodrow Wilson, whether in books, podcast episodes, or at Liberty Classroom, but by now I'd say the number of people who think his intervention in World War I was not a disaster of enormous proportions, that aggravated every existing bad trend in Europe, is somewhere around twenty-seven, all of them neoconservatives. As George Kennan, the architect of the containment policy, put it in his 1951 book American Diplomacy, 1900-1950: "Today if one were offered the chance of having back again the Germany of 1913 -- a Germany run by conservative but relatively moderate people, no Nazis and no Communists -- a vigorous Germany, full of energy and confidence, able to play a part again in the balancing-off of Russian power in Europe, in many ways it would not sound so bad." Speaking of Wilson and U.S. history, I should probably see about releasing a 25th anniversary edition of my book The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History -- those of you who have followed me for a while will be as shocked as I am to realize that that book came out 22 years ago! We'll see. Now by coincidence, I am seven minutes away from leaving for the gym, and today for the first time at Soldier City Fitness my wife is joining me. This ought to be fun! We're old school over there: we lift weights. I asked Coach Andrew, the owner: why don't you have a leg press machine? Answer: the machine automatically stabilizes you, but that's part of the benefit of lifting: you have to stabilize yourself. This activates more muscles, and also helps you with your balance -- one of the things you lose as you age. So just a reminder that the early-bird special on the four-week strength training masterclass we in Woods World are going to do is coming to an end soon, and then the price triples. Maybe you're unhappy with how you look. Or you'd just like to be stronger. Or you know the full case for what strength training can do for your health and longevity. But (1) you're busy, and (2) you don't know what to do or where to start. We're all busy. But there are some things that deserve priority and that you have to do, busy or not. This is one of them, both for yourself and for the children for whom you are setting an example. And if you're going to do it, it may as well be via an instructor plucked right out of Woods World, and a follower of the great Mark Rippetoe, one of my (enormous) repeat Tom Woods Show guests. Today is someday:   https://www.tomwoods.com/strength Tom Woods

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