There are far worse sins than snobbery (which can mean just having standards in the democratic age), and you can learn a lot about how to write about ideas, art, etc for a non-academic audience by studying her work. She was flawed, interesting, a now vanished type

— Matthew Sitman (@MatthewSitman) June 27, 2023

and another one. These idiots never change.

And for the record (don't post this), Yglesias as an individual has a great, self-aware sense of humor and is much more starkly honest (if also unapologetic) about his own elitism than most liberals. Take him out for a beer and I think you'd find that.