He has an article in the Nation on conservatives’ use of the charge against liberals–which I agree is overdone. He misfires, though, on at least one point:

A telling aspect of the conservatives’ attack on liberal elitism is their intense attachment to the very same elite liberal academic institutions they profess to detest. When George Bush tried to nominate his personal lawyer, Harriet Miers, a graduate of Southern Methodist University Law School, to the Supreme Court, conservatives had a collective conniption fit over her meager credentials. National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru called her “an inspiring testament to the diversity of the president’s cronies.”

I made that comment the morning of the nomination, and it was in reaction to the administration’s self-congratulation over having picked a female nominee (as the rest of the post makes clear). I didn’t say a thing against Miers’s academic background, and later specifically said that I did not find attacks on her on that basis compelling.