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by
Ezra Klein
When you think about it—and you’re not meant to. The worldcontinues on its merry self-destructive but profitable to them what’sin on the deal way because we don’t think about what we’re not meant tothink about—the clubbiness of after-hours Washington is a grotesque
joke on the rest of us that even Satan wouldn’t have the bad taste to
perpetrate.
Milton’s Satan. Job’s Satan would enjoy a good horselaugh over it.
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. More by Ezra Klein
