"Stuff Rich People Like"

"Rich People Things is dazzling in its intensity, particularly if you agree that people like David Brooks are bad for the common good. It is at its best, though, when it coyly questions the very things and people to whom a book like this might appeal. An honest reporter at heart (there is extensive sourcing throughout the book), Lehmann puts the left's sacred cows on the same fire as the right's. 'The Democratic Party,' 'The Creative Class,' and 'The New York Times' are all chapters in Rich People Things, and they're just as sharp and brutal as the essays railing against the right's darlings. Not even college is spared: 'So the once-noble dream of a universal higher learning has been transformed, as have so many other social goods in America, into a brutally class-segmented market.'"

Cord Jefferson in The American Prospect reviews Chris Lehmann's Rich People Things.