Your friends friend is an idiot who believes everything he reads on DU.
National Review had an article in the print version “The Four Horsemen of Progressivism” that identifies Richard Ely, John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Herbert Croly as major influences and founders of the American Progressive movement.
“National Review had an article in the print version The Four Horsemen of Progressivism that identifies Richard Ely, John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Herbert Croly as major influences and founders of the American Progressive movement.
Don’t see how they could leave William James out.