The latest Fortune includes Nina Easton?s profile of the minds behind the Obama administration?s economic ideas.

One hopes the Obama partisans will remember the following passage from one of the great texts of the past 60 years:

[P]eople tend to forget that the director is always a human being, not an abstract notion or a mythical collective entity. We may admit that the director or the board of directors are people of superior ability, wise and full of good intentions. But it would be nothing short of idiocy to assume that they are omniscient and infallible.