I’m not one to speak ill of the dead, but does Kenneth Lay really deserve comparisons to Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus Christ? Surely just Gandhi and the Buddha would’ve sufficed?

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.