I have an assignment for a patriotic liberal: Defend Woodrow Wilson from a pea-brained attack in Connecticut. It seems that authorities in a jurisdiction there are thinking about renaming Woodrow Wilson Middle School on the grounds that its namesake was a racist. And so the purging of American history continues: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln–all must go because they didn’t hold 21st-century views on race. I’m not a big Wilson fan, though my criticisms of him have much more to do with his wishful progressivism than anything else. On race, he was very much a man of his time. Can’t we merely accept that and avoid whitewashing our past? Christopher Dodd and Joe Lieberman: Please speak up on behalf of your fellow Democrat.