In 1916 my father was a graduate student in Washington, D.C. On election night, he stood outside the headquarters of the Democrat National Committee, leading a crowd that chanted, “We want Peace, We don’t Want War! We want Wilson, Four Years More!” Woodrow Wilson had attracted the support of my dad and his friends with his simple boast, “He kept us out of war.” When Wilson finally revealed, after his reelection, that he had actually intended to give us “the war to end all wars,” my father and his classmates did not dwell on Wilson’s prevarications. They dropped out of … Continue reading Generation of Lies