Is This Progress?

Filed Under: "The Future of Liberalism", Democracy in America, Dred Scott, John Dewey, New Nationalism, Obama's Roanoke Speech, Progressivism, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson

President Obama is a man of history—that is, he places himself quite deliberately in historical context. His much-derided self-comparisons with Abraham Lincoln come immediately to mind. But those are clearly superficial. More telling is his choice of Osawatomie, Kansas for …