"In my part of town, developers are tearing down older houses left and right, and putting up McMansions on small lots. . . . [T]he developers invoke the Free Market, as if it were the Magisterium of the Church. I remember watching on the late local news one night not long ago a developer saying that if people didn't want to buy these kinds of houses, they wouldn't be building them. As if consumer desire was its own justification...."
This is the element of Dreher's approach that I find particularly irksome -- on this issue, the man generates a smug cloud that could be seen from Jupiter.