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Ross Douthat on teh Real Story: Ezra Klein Is Awesome
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... The Rise of Ezra Klein: Ross Douthat: maybe the email list is just a wonderfully high-minded attempt to "illuminate standard political reporting with expert policy commentary," with no partisan purpose whatsoever. How should I know? I'm not on it! Either way, though, isn't the real story here not the list itself, but the man behind it? I mean, email chains come and go, but the ability to bring your elders together for a common purpose is a rare thing indeed in media-intellectual circles. Isn't it possible that we're seeing the emergence of Ezra Klein as the William F. Buckley of ...

Not Quite Brilliant
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] Ross writes about the Journolist story: Either way, though, isn't the real story here not the list itself, but the man behind it? I mean, email chains come and go, but the ability to bring your elders together for a common purpose is a rare thing indeed in media-intellectual circles. Isn't it possible that we're seeing the emergence of Ezra Klein as the William F. Buckley of movement liberalism - the wunderkind around whom older thinkers orbit, with JournoList as the equivalent of National Review in the Fifties, and with your Paul Krugmans, Jeffrey Toobins and Joe Kleins ...

Is Ezra Klein the next WFB?
Michael Calderone's Blog — I was really trying NOT to write much more on JournoList -- or feel obliged to point out how the story's been erroneously spun -- but there's been some interesting exchanges in the past day or so. Future NY Times columnist Ross Douthat, on Atlantic.com, writes that the real story isn't the list itself but JournoList's 24-year-old founder, Ezra Klein. "Isn't it possible that we're seeing the emergence of Ezra Klein as the William F. Buckley of movement liberalism - the wunderkind around whom older thinkers orbit, with JournoList as the ...

The Walled Garden of Empiricism
Hit & Run — ... that, I would say there is wide disagreement on trade, Israel, how exactly we got into this recession/depression and how to get out of it, the brilliance of various punk bands that I have never heard of, and on whether, at any given moment, the Obama administration is doing the right thing." But the best comes in a follow-up post by listserv founder Ezra Klein (or, as new New York Times token-righty columnist Ross Douthat calls him, "the William F. Buckley of movement liberalism"): The emphasis is on ...

Ezra Klein = William F. Buckley?
Galley Slaves — I confess to knowing little about Ezra Klein (that is, aside from the reports about his keen wit and hard-eyed professionalism). But is he really, as Ross Douthat suggests "the William F. Buckley of movement liberalism"? Wouldn't a much, much better analogy be that Klein is a liberal Grover Norquist? Isn't it obvious that JournoList is a pumped-up virtual version of Norquist's Wednesday Morning meetings? ...