Robert Cottrell in The Economist:
Whatever their provenance, the public intellectuals of 2009 will want to be fluent in the obvious issues of the moment: environment and energy, market turmoil, China, Russia, Islam…. [A] rising generation of bloggers is terrifyingly young and bright: expect to hear more from Ezra Klein, Megan McArdle, Will Wilkinson and Matthew Yglesias.
As my terrifyingly young and bright friend Alex Massie would say: Quite so! I conclude that the nation’s two most important loci of intellectual activity are Northwest DC and Northeast Iowa City.
Shoot. I technically live in SE Iowa City. So close. I’ve always been on the outside looking in at cool kids group.
You’re also not the only one pimping the IC’s intellectual cred:
http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20081121/NEWS01/811210330/1079/RSS01