Yeah, that sounds vaguely… familiar…
Like David Brooks, Yglesias is a member of what might jokingly be called the Shadow Steveosphere:
public intellectuals who find themselves both intrigued and troubled by my contention that public discussion of the patterns we all notice in our daily lives should inform even the most august policy debates. (…)
Still, the fundamental reason that Yglesias’s white progressive friends will never pay more than lip service to his policy prescription is so palpable—but goes largely unstated in his e-book—that The Rent Is Too Damn High is most interesting as a symptom of the growing emasculation of intellectual discourse.
