I came here to post this and a more recent article, his review of (the first sixth of) David Brooks’ Bobos in Paradise: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/b

I came here to post this and a more recent article, his review of (the first sixth of) David Brooks’ Bobos in Paradise: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-first-sixth-of-bobos https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-first-sixt... Towards the end his directly links to "Whither Tartaria", suggesting that Brooks' thesis (the old monied aristocracy was replace as the upper class by "Bourgeois Bohemians", a class which Scott suggests is approximately congruent to the modern usage of "bluecheck") >Around World War II, US civic architecture changed from colorful, ornate, old-fashioned looking buildings to brutalist concrete cubes or sleek glass modernist arrangements, even though most Americans continue to prefer the old-fashioned style; other art forms showed similar transitions at different times. Brooks’ theory suggests that the old-fashioned buildings were the preferred architecture of the WASP aristocracy, and the new architecture is the signaling equivalent of [bespoke] handicraft blankets.