Enlightened tyrants

David Harsanyi is at his best when writing about the "enlightened tyrants" who think our freedoms are getting in the way of "progress." Today in the Denver Post he takes on Woody Allen, who wishes Obama could be a dictator, Thomas Friedman, who believes despotism can be a good thing if the despots are "enlightened, as in modern China," Chris Matthews, who wonders why we have not yet nationalized the oil industry, and Donald Berwick, Obama's choice to run Obamacare. Berwick is fond of the rationing program in Britain, called the National Health Service.