Matt Welch profiles Ezra Klein:
[H]e has become arguably the prototypical insider in the Age of Obama: confident, cloaked in numbers, assured about the virtues of economic intervention but alarmed by the growing dysfunction of politics. In fact, he is so deep inside now that he’s come to an even more terrifying conclusion about life in The Village than his Netroots compatriots could ever have dreamed: "I’m much more certain that the problems are systemic and the various forms of gatekeeping elites [are] impotent," he wrote me in a follow-up email to our interview. "And that feeling—that the people in charge aren’t just wrong or bought off, but that, quite often, they fundamentally don’t know what they’re doing—is a bit scary, and fairly radicalizing."
The Dish 