The Bottom Line: We Know Better Than You

Non-college males are demonstrably being failed by the exact people that David Brooks is talking about. They've sequestered themselves in San Francisco and Austin and DC and New York, armed with all kinds of economic, cultural, and political power. And while members of the less educated classes have to walk on eggshells because they never know when we've changed the usage rules so that something that was sayable five years ago, no gets you fired.