Essays in Political & Literary History
Wilson · Gladstone · Disraeli
By Delmington Peregrine
Est. 2025
Wilson · May 2025
A symptom of his early conservatism, not his eventual progressivism, Wilson’s opposition to natural rights came from his southern background as much as his xenophilic nature.
May 2, 2025
Gladstone · April 2025
Two hundred years later, Disraeli’s first novel remains audacious, ridiculous, revealing.
April 25, 2025
Wilson · April 2025
The tale of Woodrow Wilson’s most hated Princeton professor is one of the most amusing and least told stories in Wilson lore
April 1, 2025
Disraeli · March 2025
Why was the hero of the conservative prime minister’s last complete novel on the opposite side of the political spectrum?
March 25, 2025
Wilson · March 2025
A scholar has asserted that Wilson was no southern partisan in part because he saw John Calhoun as provincial. But Wilson had a long and not unadmiring relationship to the influential Southern statesman.
March 24, 2025
Gladstone · March 2025
The religious quandary at the heart of Disraeli’s late novel and what the Derby diaries reveal about his real beliefs.
March 22, 2025
About
Delmington Peregrine is a journalist, writer, and arts critic. These essays trace the intersection of political history and literary criticism, with Woodrow Wilson, Benjamin Disraeli, and William Ewart Gladstone as sustained focal figures.