No, The Left Does Not Need Its Own Roger Kimball
By Shorter Jed Perl: Ezra Klein and Nate Silver are killing American art.
As Roy says, the essay is not merely pretentiously incoherent but is written it a level of abstraction so high that it renders serious engagement impossible. At least the right-wing version of this cliched screed uses some extraordinarily dated concrete examples — “Piss Christ!” “2 Live Crew!” “The woman with the chocolate syrup!” — which is a minor source of amusement as well as a major source of self-refutation. This is just many, many words saying nothing. And it leaves Aaron Sorkin on the table! Come back Joseph Epstein, all is forgiven.