Steyn again

He slams David Brooks's airy-fairy intellectualism, citing an earlier effort by the great Virginia Postrel, and concludes with a first-class zinger (so good, I had to send him an e-mail of thanks):

And, when the next shoebomber bends down to strike his match, would he (Brooks) rather the guy sitting in the next seat is too immersed in his Niehbuhr to notice?