The Wall Street Journal's Five Best column this week highlighted "first-person accounts of the Progressive era"-books by Progressive heroes Jane Addams, Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and William Allen White.  The column's author Louise Knight has recently published a biography of Jane Addams, which is described on her website: The book traces how Addams's passion for social justice, which began as a fuzzy, romantic ideal, came to infuse her daily life and led her, in 1931, to become the first American woman - she is still one of only two - to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Another Nobel Peace Prize-winning community organizer and social justice advocate from Chicago? Apparently Ms. Knight has not read Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism or listened to five minutes of the Glenn Beck Show.  Both men make a convincing argument that Progressivism was a fascist movement promoting a totalitarian state that came to fruition under Woodrow Wilson's...(Read Full Post)