(Posted by John.)

I’m just gonna go and jump on the bandwagon and reccomend the John Judis piece on the Madman Theory of international politics.

What surprises me about the post is that people ever treated Bush’s accusations that Saddam was a “madman” as something that needed to be heeded.

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.