[...] The latest victim is Joel I. Klein, who is to become New York City's next school chancellor.

Joel Klein. Clinton administration antitrust warrior. Fortune 500 CEO. Victim.

He is sometimes identified by his last position -- chairman and chief executive of Bertelsmann Inc., the American arm of the German media conglomerate.

But, aren’t CEO’s evil? Has Joel Klein looked into the abyss so long that it started to look back at him?

But Klein is really a creature of Washington.

Creature? Well, Mr. Cohen said it, not me.

He served in the White House. He served in the Justice Department. He had -- no doubt about it -- a grand time.

Well, as long as Joel had fun. But Sasha Volokh disputes the goodness of Mr. Klein actions there specifically, and the system at large in general, as it relates to the insidious practice of bean-counting when it comes to measuring the success of anti-trust enforcers like Mr. Klein, and just about all law enforcement activities in general. What bugs me most about the problem Mr. Volokh notes is that with respect to antitrust enforcement, there seems to be an implicit assumption that all businesses are corrupt, hence the more scalps Joel was able to take, the better he was doing his job.

In his next job, Klein will run a school system with more than 1 million students. [...]