ARE BOURGEOIS VALUES THE NEW SEXY? My column in today’s New York Post.

UPDATE: Ann Althouse has thoughts. And, from the comments: “If you don’t think there is shame implied these days in having traditional values, well you aren’t fit to be mayor of Boston, Chicago or even NYC that is for sure.”

Plus: “You didn’t build that welfare state. Somebody else did that.” But they expect you to pay.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Apparently, I was just reprising G.K. Chesterton. Reader Alan Bart sends this:

Related to your op ed:

“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.”

by G. K. Chesterton A Defense of Humilities, The Defendant, 1901

Well, you can do a lot worse than reprising Chesterton.