Richard Florida Update

If Richard Florida didn't know before, he has found out lately that no good deed goes unpunished. The huge success of his 2002 book, "The Rise of the Creative Class," and its economic prescription for declining cities - technology, talent and tolerance - has brought a backlash from both the right and left.

The one side accuses Florida, formerly an economic-development professor at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University and now on the faculty of George Mason University School of Public Policy, of having a "gay agenda" or an "arts agenda" and of undermining the Judeo-Christian foundations of our society. The other asserts that he has abandoned the working class in favor of promoting a group of elites.

And now, you know the rest of the story...

More here.