Ezra Klein Argues for Big

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In the era of Donald Trump, an era of unmistakably authoritarian threat, Ezra Klein has emerged as a leading voice making the case for practical liberal politics. As a columnist and podcaster for the New York Times, Klein cannot hope to have the old-school insider influence of a Walter Lippmann—the contemporary media universe, despite the enduring power of the Times, is too diffuse for that. And yet Klein, in his distinctly bookish and measured approach, sometimes recalls an Obamian voice, if the former President had been a journalist with a beard, tattoos, and a predilection for Burning Man.

Klein has distinguished himself less through acidic argument and the defenestration of enemies, and more through a