I agree. It's a scattering of good (if not novel) observations about the issue, but there's just no through line connecting any of them. The last paragraph is

I agree. It's a scattering of good (if not novel) observations about the issue, but there's just no through line connecting any of them. The last paragraph is phrased as though it follows logically from the preceding one, when it seems to make pretty much the opposite point.