Thursday, March 19, 2009
Not Quite Brilliant Analogy [Jonah Goldberg]
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 playing Willmoore Kendall or James Burnham to his WFB?
He then offers this take back:
Okay, fine, maybe the parallel doesn't quite hold up.
Yes, and it is quite a stroll up Mt. Everest. It's also been quite a while since mastodons wandered through Manhattan. And having a wolverine eat your liver does sting quite a bit.
03/19 09:30 AM
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