Wow. This is our liberal blogosphere? I just dug up reviews of Daniel Brooks' The Trap and found ones from Ezra Klein and Kevin Drum. Neither Ezra nor Kevin have much sympathy for someone who would chose to do non-profit work at the quarter of the salary her classmate pulls in at a corporate law job. Or for those mixed-sex couples who find that the only economically feasible way to have kids is if the woman quits working. None of what we're seeing today is all that surprising, or even accidental. The net effect of the Reaganite economic policies was to cut off oxygen to middle class life and force people to either climb up or fall down. Yet we have shining lights to the liberal blogosphere shunning those who would protest against it. Someone in some well-appointed office at the Heritage Institute is rubbing his hands with glee.

(What to make of the fact that both Ezra and Kevin feel perfectly comfortable pundititizing a book they haven't actually read? Since I'd rather not be shunned at next gathering of online lefties, I'll leave it at that...)