As a progressive, Obama hews to the Wilsonian tradition

[Maggie]

A very good column by George Will in the Washington Post today:

Progressives are forever longing to replace the governance of people by the administration of things. Because they are entirely public-spirited, progressives volunteer to be the administrators, and to be as disinterested as the dickens.

:yes:

As a progressive, Obama hews to the Wilsonian tradition